Listen Again: Why you are not what you do with Maria Bowler

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

During our summer break, we are re-airing some of our favorite episodes! In a world that constantly demands more—more work, more achievement, more hustle—how do we learn to pause? Kate sits down with her sister Maria Bowler, a writer, creativity coach, and spiritual director, to talk about the pressures of the “producer self,” that voice inside us all that equates our worth with what we do, fix, or achieve.

This conversation is an invitation to live differently—to embrace rest, love, and the sacredness of simply being. For the overachievers, the caregivers, and the deeply tired (you know who you are): you are already enough.

In this conversation, Kate and Maria discuss:

How to see one another (and ourselves) through a lens of love
How to give yourself permission to rest and procrastinate
The difference between meaningful work and the hustle that leaves us hollow

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0:34.3	Hi, everyone. I'm David Dukovny. Join me on my podcast, Fail Better, where we use failure as a lens to reflect on the past and analyze the current moment. I speak with makers and performers like Rob Lowe, Rosie O'Donnell, and Kenya Barris, as well as thinkers like Kara Swisher and Nate Silver, to understand how both personal setbacks and larger forces
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1:04.8	So how is your New Year's resolution going?
1:15.9	Oh, not good? Okay, well, then you're in the right place.
1:23.2	Today is all about letting ourselves off the hook with always getting better, better, better, and instead set a new pace for our lives.
1:28.3	This is everything happens, and I'm Kate Bowler.
1:32.7	Today I'm talking with a talented writer, a creativity coach, a retreat leader.
1:38.5	She is a beautiful redhead and yes, I'm speaking about her in a very weirdly personal way because, hey,
1:45.0	it's my sister, Maria Bowler.
1:48.2	Maria is my childhood partner in crime.
1:52.4	She is someone I have put upside down in a sleeping bag and forced to crawl up the stairs.
1:56.8	And she is brilliant and so funny.
2:00.4	And she works really hard at understanding the intersection between hustle and grace.
2:07.7	She wrote a gorgeous brand new book called Making Time,
2:12.6	a new vision for crafting a life beyond productivity,
2:16.2	which will leave us all feeling a little kinder toward ourselves,
	...

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