Mary Fons: she quilted her way to health, now it’s time to write.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Mary Fons knew she wanted to be a writer from a young age, and was pursuing that path when a catastrophic illness nearly took her life, leading to surgery and changing her future forever.
As she recovered and started to stitch her life back together, she began working with her mom, Maryann Fons, a legend in the world of quilting and author of what has become known as the "Quilter’s Bible."
Simultaneously rebuilding her health while building her own name as a leading voice in the massive quilting world, she began speaking, writing books, designing textiles and producing media and appearing regularly on television with her mother. Still, she knew deep down that quilting wasn't her dream. Writing and spoken-word began to call her back to a more deeply ingrained destiny.
We recorded this conversation at a major point of inflection for Mary. She was about to make a huge move, and in a way, this conversation is her announcement. As we wrap up, Mary also reads a powerful spoken word piece that landed her writing and poetry big attention and accolades. You don't want to miss this.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- The mind-blowing statistics behind the world of quilting.
- The catastrophic illness and events that changed Mary’s life forever.
- How Mary has learned to handle the stress of living her life in her niche’s public eye.
- How Mary navigated the tricky path to becoming a success in the shadow of a legendary woman and finding her way in the world of quilting.
- How to be successful and earn a living in quilting.
- How performing, improv and spoken word entered her life.
- Why Mary has decided to make the leap from writing to writing.
Mentioned in This Episode:
- Connect with Mary: Mary Fons | Blog | Quilty | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram
- Fons & Porter
- Make & Love Quilts: Scrap Quilts for the 21st Century by Mary Fons
- Quilter’s Complete Guide by Marianne Porter & Liz Fons
- Creative Mornings
- QuiltCon West
- The Modern Quilt Guild
- The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
- Mark Twain
- Write Club
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| 0:00.0 | So imagine stepping out of your day to day life and just dropping yourself into a gorgeous |
| 0:08.8 | 130 acre natural playground for three and a half days of learning and laughing and moving |
| 0:14.8 | your body and calming your brain and reconnecting with people who just see the world the way |
| 0:20.1 | that you do and accept you completely as you are. |
| 0:23.6 | So that's what we've created with our Camp Good Life Project or Camp GLP experience. |
| 0:29.5 | We've actually brought together a lineup of really inspiring teachers from art to |
| 0:34.1 | entrepreneurship from writing to meditation, pretty much everything in between. |
| 0:38.6 | It's this beautiful way to fill your noggin with ideas to live and work better and a really |
| 0:43.5 | rare opportunity to create the type of friendships and stories you pretty much thought you'd |
| 0:48.4 | left behind decades ago. |
| 0:49.8 | It's all happening at the end of August, just about 90 minutes from New York City and |
| 0:55.0 | we're well on our way to selling out spots at this point. |
| 0:58.1 | So be sure to grab your spot as soon as you can if it's interesting to you. |
| 1:02.5 | You can learn more at GoodLifeProject.com slash camp or just go ahead and click the link |
| 1:08.0 | in the show notes now. |
| 1:10.5 | I look at people who I admire and they're frequently people who do tons of stuff like the writer |
| 1:16.5 | George Plimpton like he's a boxer and then he like flew a plane for a while and you know |
| 1:20.6 | all these different things that these different people do to me that makes a pretty interesting |
| 1:24.3 | life. |
| 1:27.3 | Coming up in Iowa today is guest Mary Fonds pretty much always wanted to be writer and she |
| 1:31.2 | started to pursue that in a pretty aggressive way until pretty major medical incident hit |
| 1:36.7 | which led to surgery and changed the future of her life and she tried to stitch together |
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