Lynne Twist: “It’s Such a Gift to Be Alive Right Now”
Making Space with Hoda Kotb
NBC News
4.9 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever ever listened to someone speak and say to yourself, oh my gosh, I need more. |
| 0:11.6 | I need more from this person well that is exactly what I feel |
| 0:16.6 | about my next guest today Lynn Twist is a global visionary she has committed her life to alleviating poverty, ending |
| 0:26.1 | world hunger, empowering the status of women and girls, supporting social justice |
| 0:30.9 | and environmental sustainability. |
| 0:33.7 | The scope of Lynn's impact ranges from working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta |
| 0:38.6 | to working with refugees and camps in Ethiopia. |
| 0:41.5 | She's explored and studied the threatened rainforests |
| 0:44.8 | of the Amazon and guided the philanthropy |
| 0:47.6 | of some of the world's wealthiest families. |
| 0:50.6 | She writes about her work in the best-selling award-winning book, The Soul of Money, |
| 0:54.8 | Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life. |
| 0:58.1 | Her TED Talk on the topic, Had Me In Aw. |
| 1:02.2 | And her latest book, Living a Committed Life, |
| 1:05.2 | finding freedom and fulfillment in a purpose larger than yourself |
| 1:09.2 | will have you rethinking everything |
| 1:11.5 | you thought you knew about what it means to seek a higher cause. |
| 1:15.5 | I myself am a firm believer in action, looking for ways I can put the work in. |
| 1:21.0 | I left this conversation motivated and invigorated and I hope you will too. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm Hodakotby. Welcome to my podcast Making Space. First of all, Miss Lind Twist, I am so excited to be sitting here with you because all roads keep leading to you. |
| 1:49.0 | I have never met you in person, but every time I meet someone, talk to someone, listen to someone, |
| 1:58.5 | your name comes up, and I was like, Lynn Twist, Lynn Twist, Lynn Twist. So of course I hit Lind Twist and TED Talk, |
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