My guess today is Marie Andrew and she is what I would call a flannel.

What does that mean?

Well, she kind of navigates the world in search of moments of discovery and wonder,

serendipity and connection.

Novelty that drops her into those flickering moments of aliveness, it's her muse really.

And it's found an expression in the form of beloved illustrations and words on her Instagram

account with a community of more than a million people and her first book.

But these last four or five years have also led Marie into entire seasons of struggle

and reflection and ultimately revelation that has taken her from park benches in New

York's East Village to a hospital ward in Spain and even random alleys in Rio.

In her new book My Inner Sky, Marie shares some of these moments from an illness that temporarily

paralyzed her in a foreign country to finding home within herself again and really seeing

the world anew.

It's a call to spend more time finding grace in the truth of whatever life brings us

rather than wishing and waiting for things to change.

So excited to share this conversation with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.

Something jumped out at me that I wanted to ask you about.

So I think when we first started dancing together, was shortly after you were on Instagram

and you were posting really regularly these super cool illustrations and oftentimes there's

being words or thoughts in the illustrations and then a caption.

And my initial sense of you was like, oh cool, she's sort of like an illustrator who

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