Morgan Harper Nichols - Learning to Listen to the Stories of Life
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Popular Instagram poet and artist Morgan Harper Nichols has created her life's work around the stories of others. Morgan's popular Instagram feed (@morganharpernichols) has garnered a loyal online community, and she is the author of All Along You Were Blooming, a book of poems and art she created in response to the personal stories submitted by her friends and followers.
Known for its lyrical tone and vibrant imagery, Morgan's work is an organic expression of the grace and hope we've been given in this world. Morgan has also performed as a vocalist on several GRAMMY-nominated projects and written for various artists, including a Billboard #1 single performed by her sister, Jamie-Grace.
Morgan is often on the road creating, teaching, and performing, in hopes of spreading her unique inspirational message and inviting others into her creative process. Morgan currently resides in Orange County, California, with her family.
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On the episode:
Producers : Tatave Abeshyan and Haley King
Engineer : Jackson Carpenter
Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to another episode of the Dream Bake podcast with Bob Gaff and |
| 0:12.0 | friends I'm your co-host Scott Schimmel and we're coming back after a week break last week, spending some time learning and listening. Bob, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:21.6 | Yeah, hey everybody, Bob here. |
| 0:23.9 | It has been a really, really challenging period of time. |
| 0:28.5 | I think people's awareness, the things that are on their mind, the things that they're trying to sort out. |
| 0:35.6 | And what we're all trying to do is find really safe, truthful voices to speak into a lot of confusion and so I'm just so delighted that you get to |
| 0:46.3 | listen into a conversation today. Yeah we had probably three or four months ago |
| 0:52.2 | this conversation with Morgan Harper Nichols. |
| 0:54.6 | If you're not familiar with her, well you're probably not on Instagram because she's been so active |
| 1:00.0 | and such a fan for so many for years as a poet as an artist. |
| 1:05.0 | She really caught on by not telling her own story but by telling other people's stories |
| 1:10.7 | through art, through graphic design, through poetry, and as people, as we are, like everybody, |
| 1:17.4 | learning how to listen in this new time, she's a voice that I think can lead us, teach us. How do we go about listening? |
| 1:26.0 | Because it's not necessarily our hearts that want to listen, but it's how do we do that well? |
| 1:30.0 | How do we hold space for other people? How do we give them the time and chance to share their |
| 1:36.0 | story and their experience? She's really an expert at that and really beautiful |
| 1:40.1 | on how she approaches it. |
| 1:41.1 | Yeah, and you can't tell someone else's story if you haven't taken the time to listen to it. |
| 1:46.4 | And I hope that that will be one of our reactions to all of the things that have been going on |
| 1:53.0 | will take a moment, take a genuine interest |
| 1:55.4 | in the other people around us, |
| 1:57.4 | so that we can not just tell our story, |
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