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Dream It Real

Marley Dias on Purpose

Dream It Real

Coach

Society & Culture

4.0682 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“Purpose is the way you focus on and dial in to being great at any moment.” In the final episode of season one, we talk with 14-year-old activist and author Marley Dias about challenging the status quo and making change through her #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign, the women she looks up to, and how believing in herself helped her discover her purpose. “To make any change,” she says. “You have to first believe in your own ideas.” We also hear from friends of the Coach family Chloe Grace Moretz, Dylan Sprouse and Lakeith Stanfield on the question, “What advice would you give your younger self?” 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, welcome to Dream It Real, a podcast for those who dream, brought to you by coach.

0:07.2

It's me. I'm your host, Heaven Nagatu. So over the last six episodes, we've been talking to

0:12.1

celebrities, thought leaders, and young people who are transforming the world one dream at a time.

0:17.1

We talked to Selena Gomez about staying authentic. We visited 17-year-old Giovanni in Newark, New Jersey to hear his story of courage.

0:24.6

Michael B. Jordan spoke candidly about inclusion in Hollywood,

0:27.6

and Maisie Williams stepped off the Game of Thrones set to remind us the importance of community.

0:31.6

We talked about honing our weirdness, strangeness and otherness with Ben Platt.

0:36.6

And coaches Stuart Vivers told us to take risks and trust our instincts.

0:41.5

We spoke about everything from drag houses with Desmond is Amazing to football with

0:46.0

Nevea Spillman from Kansas City, the 13-year-old changing stereotypes just by stepping onto the football

0:51.4

field as her school's first female quarterback.

0:55.4

And the thing that connects all these people and their stories is their commitment to making their dreams real.

1:00.3

It's been an honor just to hear your stories.

1:03.2

So for our final episode of Season 1, we have a special guest who totally embodies this spirit.

1:09.0

14-year-old Marley Dias is here to talk about purpose.

1:12.6

You don't have to wait until you're older to do something.

1:15.4

You don't have to wait until you have more money to do something.

1:18.2

You don't have to wait until someone listens to you.

1:20.3

You have to, what you have to do in order to make any change

1:24.2

is to first believe in your own ideas and find the resources that you need.

1:32.1

So Marley Dias is 14 years old and already has such a great handle on the idea of purpose.

1:37.2

You can see it in her work.

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