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Good Life Project

How To Be You | Jeffrey Marsh

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

4.53.4K 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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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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