Martha Beck: ...what alignment with yourself feels like

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Our guest on this episode is the amazing Martha Beck, and we’ve wanted to talk with her for a long time. Martha is a bestselling author and Harvard-trained sociologist known as “Oprah Winfrey’s life coach”. Her latest bestselling book is called, "The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self." The work she is probably best known for is about following your gut instinct instead of being led by society's expectations. Her website is marthabeck.com.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me.
0:13.1	I'm Laura Owens.
0:14.2	And I'm Jan Black.
0:15.3	And we've wanted to talk with our guest on this episode, Martha Beck, for a very,
0:19.9	very long time. We're huge fans.
0:22.5	She's the best-selling author and Harvard-trained sociologist known as Oprah Winfrey's life coach.
0:28.5	The work she's probably best known for is about following your gut instinct instead of being
0:33.2	led by societal expectations. Among other things, Martha's been a monthly contributor to O, the Oprah Magazine,
0:39.7	and she's written nine nonfiction books and one novel.
0:43.5	Her newest book is called The Way of Integrity, Finding the Path to Your True Self.
0:49.5	Martha, thank you so much for joining us.
0:51.4	Thanks for having me.
0:52.5	You write that integrity is the cure for unhappiness, period.
0:58.4	What do you mean by that?
1:00.0	I mean, that's such a simple sentence, and it obviously has a lot of wisdom in it.
1:04.7	Well, it has a lot of audacity.
1:06.9	I mean, if I said something that, you know, made a blanket statement like that in graduate
1:11.7	school, they would have taken me out back and shot me because you have to be able to back
1:16.9	up your claims.
1:17.6	But I've been looking at human suffering for a lot, my whole life, but really looking at it for 30
1:22.5	years.
1:23.3	And I realized that people, integrity doesn't mean to me that you're being morally righteous.
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