How To Be You | Jeffrey Marsh
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Non-binary author Jeffrey Marsh shares their journey from childhood rejection to joyfully embracing identity. They explore finding life-changing language/community, the path out of self-hatred, and why pronouns matter for human dignity.
Marsh dives into myths of control, self-acceptance beyond gender/sexuality, and actively cultivating happiness. Their hard-won wisdom offers an inspiring roadmap for living authentically from their groundbreaking book, How To Be You. An uplifting must-listen on belonging and being true to yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | what I am as a walking metaphor. |
| 0:03.0 | I hope it's darn clear what I was told is wrong with me, |
| 0:06.0 | and I hope it's also darn clear that I love that. |
| 0:09.0 | I love that about myself, I celebrate it, I show it, I dance within it, and have joy all around it. |
| 0:17.0 | You can do the same. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey there, so you may know my guest today, Jeffrey Marsh, from their spiritual and inclusive |
| 0:26.3 | messages that have received over 1 billion views on social media. |
| 0:31.6 | Jeffrey is a viral Tik--talk and Instagram sensation, the first |
| 0:35.1 | openly non-binary public figure to be interviewed on national television and the |
| 0:39.4 | first non-binary author to be offered a book deal with any of the big five publishers |
| 0:44.3 | landing at Penguin Random House and Jeffrey's best-selling Buddhist self-esteem guide |
| 0:48.4 | How to Be You is this innovative category non-conforming work that combines memoir and workbook and |
| 0:54.4 | spiritual advice really inviting anyone and everyone into the conversation |
| 0:58.8 | through a lens of kindness and inclusivity and how to be you it topped Oprah's gratitude meter was named |
| 1:04.7 | excellent book of the year by Ted Ed. Jeffrey also has been a student and a |
| 1:09.1 | teacher of Zen for over 20 years and practice, it's really been central |
| 1:13.9 | to both their lens on life and capacity |
| 1:16.5 | to do the work they do in the grounded, deeply, |
| 1:20.0 | present, open-hearted, and joyful way. |
| 1:22.5 | So excited to share this Best Of conversation with you. |
| 1:26.4 | And a quick note before we dive in. |
| 1:28.6 | So at the end of every episode, I don't know if you've ever heard this, |
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