Mari Andrew
UNSPOKEN
Miles Adcox and Ruthie Lindsey
4.8 • 789 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Unspoken, Ruthie and Miles sit down with the beloved writer, illustrator, and speaker, Mari Andrew. After a season of grief and loss in 2016, she decided to do a drawing a day and placed them on Instagram to keep herself accountable. By March 2018 she had almost a million Instagram followers and published her first book, “Am I There Yet”, which went on to be a New York Times best seller.
Join us and see what drives the amazing drawings we all see and love from Mari. She gives us the gift of words and insight into the emotions we all feel but can’t find the words for.
Discover and become absolutely obsessed with Mari's illustrations and heart-felt writings here.
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| 0:00.0 | I mean, I do have this incredible empathy for people with disabilities, people who have a hard time walking. |
| 0:14.7 | Like, empathy that weighs on me every second. |
| 0:18.7 | But for just personal, how I live my life, my time feels like the most precious |
| 0:25.5 | thing on earth. I don't have time to feel bad about myself. I don't have time to spend on people |
| 0:35.5 | who, you know, we don't have a mutual nourishing relationship. |
| 0:40.8 | I don't have time to do anything out of obligation. |
| 0:45.2 | But I just really, I really don't have time to doubt myself. |
| 0:49.3 | I don't have time to do negative self-talk. |
| 0:57.6 | Hey, guys. time to do negative self-talk. Hey guys, I'm Miles. |
| 0:59.2 | And I'm Ruthie. |
| 1:00.2 | And welcome to the unspoken podcast, where we believe that saying the unsaid may be the |
| 1:05.1 | hardest, but one of the most important things we can ever do. |
| 1:07.9 | Yes. |
| 1:08.7 | Our authentic self is the best gift that we have to offer this world. |
| 1:12.6 | But sadly, we live in this culture that tells us that we should hide it. |
| 1:16.1 | So we would love for you to join us and listen along. |
| 1:19.3 | And we hope that you might find connection and healing and the courage that no important words go unspoken. |
| 1:25.6 | Make up like love. |
| 1:27.2 | Make them all out. Come on someone, take off your knife. important words go unspoken. |
| 1:42.9 | Today on the podcast, we have Marry Andrews. |
| 1:47.3 | Mari is a writer, illustrator, and speaker living in New York. |
| 1:53.2 | After a season of grief and loss in 2016, she decided to do a drawing a day and place them on Instagram to keep herself accountable. |
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