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The Rich Roll Podcast

Maggie Baird Is The World’s Coolest Mom

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 129 minutes

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Summary

Parenting typical teenagers is no easy feat. Today’s guest parented two as they skyrocketed to bewildering fame—and kept them astonishingly grounded in the process. Today we explore the uncommon reality that is Maggie Baird’s life. A veteran actor, improv performer, and writer with a long list of screen credits to her name, Maggie is also a long-time vegan, animal rights and environmental activist, and the founder of Support And Feed, a non-profit that partners with restaurants across America (and soon the world) to provide plant-based meals to those experiencing food insecurity. She’s also the coolest mom ever to two of the biggest musicians in the world—7x Grammy Award winning 19-year old Billie Eilish and Billie’s equally talented brother and counterpart, 8x Grammy winning 23-year old brother Finneas O’Connell—all portrayed alongside Maggie’s husband Patrick O’Connell in the recent Apple TV+ documentary The World’s A Little Blurry. Although Billie serves as the film’s primary protagonist, the documentary paints a technicolor family journey portrait. The story behind the story of this uniquely gifted foursome is both surprising and deeply heartwarming—a narrative exploration of parents striving to consciously guide their talented kids through their trepidatious and vertigo-inducing ascent to superstardom. It goes without saying that this is a conversation about parenting, how to raise conscious kids, and the many benefits of homeschooling and unschooling. It’s about what happens when your children become unbelievably famous at a young age, seemingly overnight. And it’s about organizing your life and your family’s priorities around what is most important. It’s also about the challenges of pursuing an artistic life. The importance of finding your cause. And it’s a dive into Maggie’s particular cause, which is to solve food insecurity and make the music industry, concerts, and touring, more ecologically sustainable. To read more click here. You can also watch listen to our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. This one is chock-full of sage advice across many topics, and there’s something for everyone to learn from Maggie’s refreshing perspective. Wise and charming, Maggie is the mom we all wish we had. Enjoy! Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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One thing about parenting that I think people should talk about more, that a lot of times by the time kids get to their teen years,

0:39.0

parents maybe feel like, oh, this is a good time for me to go back to college or get a second job or do my own thing.

0:47.0

But I think it's really important to know and those years your kids need you more than ever.

0:53.0

And you just have to be careful to not think you're done. You know, even if they're taking all of it out on you,

1:00.0

and you're like, oh my gosh, I really want to run away, but I have to stay here because I actually have to protect you.

1:06.0

That's Maggie Beard, and this is the Retroll Podcast.

1:20.0

The Retroll Podcast.

1:24.0

Anybody who's a parent knows that it's just hard. It's really hard, even under the best circumstances. But imagine parenting two kids to musical, homeschooled kids,

1:39.0

and trying to keep them grounded as they skyrocket to just insane fame.

1:45.0

I certainly can't imagine that, but this week's guest can because she has lived it and continues to live it. Her name is Maggie Beard.

1:54.0

And if that name sounds familiar, it could be because she's an actor, a performer with a long list of credits to her name.

2:02.0

But more likely it's because she's like the coolest mom ever to two of the biggest musicians in the world.

2:10.0

Billy Eilish, yes, that Billy Eilish, the seven time Grammy Award winning 19 year old Billy Eilish,

2:18.0

and Billy's equally talented eight time Grammy winning 23 year old brother, Phineas, all of whom are portrayed alongside Maggie's husband, Patrick O'Connell.

2:28.0

In the recent and quite amazing documentary around Apple TV Plus called The World's A Little Blurry, which is, to my mind, at least this beautiful story about coming of age.

2:40.0

But also it's a documentary about family. It's about parenting. And the challenges faced by a mom and a dad just trying to consciously guide their talented kids through this vertigo inducing a scent to superstar them.

2:56.0

Maggie's also a long time vegan. She's an animal rights and environmental activist. And she's also the founder of something called support and feed, which is an incredible and relatively new nonprofit that partners with restaurants across America and soon the world to provide plant-based meals to those experiencing food insecurity.

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