How to find your voice (with Greta Morgan)

How to Be a Better Human

TED

Personal Growth, Self-help, Self-improvement, Education, Chris Duffy, Better Human, Interviews, Emotional Awareness

4.1 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

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, 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.

For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:02.0	Audio Collective.
0:04.0	You're listening to How to Bea
0:10.0	You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.
0:12.0	I'm your host Chris Duffy and today
0:14.4	we are going to be talking about finding your voice by any means necessary with
0:18.7	singer and a musician who has performed on some of the world's largest stages.
0:23.0	She has some incredible lessons for everyone,
0:24.8	regardless of whether you are a musician or not.
0:27.0	And trust me, I am not a musician.
0:29.0	Anyone who has heard me sing
0:30.7	has never asked for an encore.
0:32.3	They've asked for whatever the opposite of an encore is.
0:34.7	But Greta Morgan does not have that problem.
0:36.4	Greta Morgan has an amazing voice,
0:38.0	and she plays in one of my favorite bands, Vampire Weekend.
0:41.2	And you might also know her from her band's Springtime Carnivore or Gold Motel. closer than you are right now.
0:55.0	safe in LA.
1:00.0	Greta is someone whose work I really admire, whether it is her music or her writing or even just the way she thinks about creativity in life.
1:12.0	I love the way how even after finding so much
1:14.9	success, Greta has really managed to hold on to that joy and optimism in her art. And that's even
1:20.8	more impressive to me right now because Greta has recently experienced a pretty dramatic change to her instrument, her vocal cords.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from TED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of TED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.