How to find your voice | Greta Morgan

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4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

What would happen if the thing that defined you disappeared overnight? Whether it’s our job, our abilities, or output—many of us meld our identities with the things we do, and often forget who we are in the process. Greta Morgan is a writer and musician whose musical projects include Vampire Weekend, Springtime Carnivore, and Gold Motel. In 2020, Greta was diagnosed with a disorder that completely changed her ability to sing. In this episode of How to Be a Better Human, she shares what her vocal loss and recovery taught her about her inner voice, and how we might find our voice and resilience in both art and the creative process. We're sharing it with you because we think it's a powerful example of how our health can impact our identity and sense of being; we hope you enjoy.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.7	Hi everyone, this week we're sharing an episode of How to Be a Better Human, another
0:12.5	podcast in the Ted Audio Collective.
0:15.6	It's hosted by comedian Chris Duffy and all about the big and small ways we can all learn
0:20.9	to be a little less terrible.
0:22.7	Here's an episode we thought you'd like, and if you want more, follow How to Be a Better
0:27.5	Human, wherever you're listening to this.
0:34.8	And we are back with Greta Morgan.
0:36.4	Hi, I'm Greta Morgan, I'm a musician and a writer.
0:40.0	Let's start by just kind of starting at the very beginning.
0:43.2	How did your musical journey start?
0:45.3	When I was a toddler, I think it was about three years old.
0:48.9	My grandmother died, so my mom's mother.
0:52.3	My grandmother's favorite song had been Ave Maria, and so after she died, my mom started
0:57.5	playing Ave Maria on the piano every day.
0:59.8	My mom played classical piano, and at that age, my conception of death was very fuzzy,
1:06.8	and I knew my grandmother was gone, but my mom would sit at the piano and say, oh, I play
1:11.2	this song every day for Grammy M, and I was like, but how can she hear it if she's dead?
1:18.4	And my mom at the time believed in the notion of a Catholic afterlife, and my mom would
1:22.1	say, oh, she can hear when I play.
1:24.3	And so this concept blew my mind.
1:26.9	Like as a very young child, I had the idea that music was the thing that connected the
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