How to Make Progress

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Courses, Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to another episode of The Gathering Room! This week I’m broadcasting from a co-working space, thanks to ongoing house repairs at our new home. But my less-than-ship-shape house is possibly the perfect metaphor for the topic we’re diving into today: the idea that “progress” might not always look or feel like we (or others) expect it to. In fact, progress is making us, not the other way around. If you suffer from the idea that you aren't making enough progress, you won't want to miss this one!

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0:00.0	Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called
0:08.0	Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?
0:14.7	Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke
0:22.0	them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to
0:28.3	marthabeck.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.
0:49.3	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. Hello, everyone. Welcome. So, so welcome to the gathering room.
0:56.1	I am in a working space because there is no electricity in my house.
0:59.8	And the life goes on.
1:02.5	And, you know, we've lived in our house for like a month or more.
1:09.1	And we still, South Africa,
1:12.6	the Israel, London, oh my God,
1:14.6	we still don't have
1:16.6	things really like ship shape.
1:19.6	I'll be honest, they're not ship shake,
1:21.6	ship shape.
1:22.6	And every time somebody comes to like
1:24.6	fix the electricity,
1:26.6	they find out that the boiler
1:29.5	needs replacing or whatever.
1:31.9	It just keeps going forward.
1:33.9	And it's quite frustrating and it seems slower than it should be.
1:38.5	I just came from talking.
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