Maisie Williams on Community

Dream It Real

Coach

Society & Culture

4 • 682 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

“Community can be a sense of real belonging, or just a group of people that you feel really connected to.” In the midst of the eighth and final season of “Game of Thrones,” actress, tech entrepreneur and friend of the Coach family Maisie Williams takes time out to talk with Heben. She shares her views on finding your people, what she’s learned from playing the fearless Arya Stark and her new app where creatives can network and share their ideas. “Being able to find an online community has given so many people a sense of hope,” she says. We also hear from Desmond is Amazing, founder of Haus of Amazing, the first kid-only drag house, on finding family in the drag community and meeting RuPaul. Original theme music is by Hansdale Hsu. 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	Hi friends. I'm your host, Heaven Negatu, and welcome back to Dream It Real, a podcast for those who dream.
0:07.8	Brought to you by Coach. Coach and I have been collaborating on this as part of the Dream It Real initiative,
0:13.6	all about supporting the next generation and their dreams for the future.
0:16.9	Each week, we'll talk to inspiring guests about how they're making their dreams of reality,
0:20.7	dreams for themselves, their communities, and the world.
0:35.0	This week's theme is all about community and the things that bring people together.
0:39.7	You need a community. You cannot do things by yourself. And I feel so, so grateful for the
0:44.5	community of people I rely on daily. Shout it to the communities who strengthen me and
0:50.3	firmly ground me in reality. And I'm very excited because today we're also talking about community
0:56.3	with someone who knows a thing or two about it.
0:59.4	And that's Maisie Williams, the myth, the legend, y'all.
1:02.7	The girl who has no name, Game of Thrones fans already know who I'm talking about.
1:07.4	In terms of being able to find an online community,
1:10.1	like that's been something that is relatively new and I think has really given so many people a real sense of like hope.
1:27.1	Now, if you aren't familiar with Maisie Williams, she has played the beloved Aria Stark on the massive HBO show Game of Thrones for the better part of a decade, and it was her first professional acting role, and she started when she was only 12. So that's wild.
1:41.6	Maisie has been a friend of coach for the last few years now, collaborating on a bunch of
1:45.2	different projects. Coach's creative director, Stuart Vivers, even designed the custom look for
1:50.4	Maisie's final Game of Thrones premiere. And she looks so good, y'all. So good. I can't believe I didn't
1:54.7	talk to her about her hair! Now, Maisie's getting ready for her post-game of Thrones life,
1:59.5	planning what's next. and one of the things
2:01.1	she's especially passionate about is creating a community for her fellow artists. And she's doing that
2:05.6	with the app that she co-founded called Daisy. We're going to talk to her about all that and more in
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