How to Turn a Mistake into Magic with Suleika Jaouad

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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313. How to Turn a Mistake into Magic with Suleika Jaouad Glennon speaks one-on-one with the brilliant Suleika Jaouad about Suleika's journey through the messy middle – living well in a body that does not feel well, and creating a life of beautiful defiance. Discover: Why believing we should “Live everyday like our last” is unhelpful; Why the unproductive periods of life are *actually* where you do the most work; The specific, best ways to really show up for friends who are in the messy middle; How to alchemize your pain into creativity; and The lessons we can all learn from Jellyfish Suleika Jaouad is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Between Two Kingdoms. She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column “Life, Interrupted,” and her reporting and essays have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and NPR, among others. A highly sought-after speaker, her TED Talk – “What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living” – has nearly five million views. She is also the creator of The Isolation Journals, a community creativity project founded during the pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude. IG: @suleikajaouad To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right,
0:02.0	to do.
0:04.0	You know,
0:05.0	You know, You know,
0:08.0	All right,
0:10.0	Hot Squad.
0:11.0	Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. You should know right away that I personally
0:16.4	have been waiting for this day for a very long time. I have kicked everyone else off the podcast for the day.
0:24.0	I'm sorry, but there will be no sister, no Abby today
0:28.0	because our guest today is so brilliant and important and has so much to teach us about how to live that I
0:39.5	just wanted to leave as much space as humanly possible for her to speak as much as possible.
0:45.8	So today we have Suleka Joad who is the author of the unbelievably beautiful book
0:54.6	between two kingdoms, which everyone that I know
0:57.5	has read several times.
0:59.0	She wrote the Emmy Award winning New York Times
1:01.4	column Life Interrupted, and her reporting and essays have
1:04.4	been featured in the New York Times magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, NPR, I think like 50 other
1:09.9	places since then. I've read at least 50 other articles in 50 other places. She is a
1:14.9	highly sought after speaker and her TED Talk, what Almost Dying taught me about
1:19.6	living, has nearly 5 million views. She is also the creator of the isolation journals, a community
1:25.9	creativity project founded during the pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic
1:31.8	solitude, which even that sentence
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