Power Up: Grace Bonney

Happy To Be Here

Greta Johnsen

Books, Tv, Nerds, Self, Society & Culture, Nerd, Culture, Tv & Film, Pop, Improvement, Nerdette, Technology, Wbez

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

In 2016, Grace Bonney spoke with 100 women doing creative work and turned those interviews into a book, In the Company of Women. It became a New York Times bestseller, and earlier this month, Bonney released a follow up: a biennial business magazine called Good Company. Plus, while she’s out promoting her new publication, she also runs the creativity website Design*Sponge.

Like so many of us, Bonney is busy. So how does she refuel?

“That’s one of the things I think everyone has a really pithy answer to, like yoga or meditating,” Bonney told Nerdette host Greta Johnsen. “I don’t do any of those things. I think I ask for help.”

Bonney tells us what asking for help looks like.

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events.
0:13.6	From W be easy Chicago I am Greta Johnson and this
0:18.6	is power up a new project from Nurdat Podcast.
0:28.0	Life these days can be hectic. In a world that seems faster and louder and busier than ever,
0:31.0	it's real tricky business to find time for yourself. So we want to know how
0:36.2	do people set themselves up for success in an exhausting world.
0:40.0	Hey my name is Annie Russell and I just wanted to share how I power up. It's not too big of a deal.
0:46.8	I'll get together with like three of my friends and we'll hang out at the New York
0:50.8	Public Library. Well, actually we are called there to investigate
0:54.5	some paranormal activity, but once we start looking into it things get pretty
0:58.7	fun and sometimes they get a little scary but like PG-13 scary you know we do stuff like check out
1:04.7	people's haunted apartments open the gate between dimensions and the stay puff
1:09.1	marshmallow man shows up sometimes oh you know? I am so sorry. I am describing the plot to the
1:15.6	movie Ghostbusters which I recently watched. What I do to power up is stand-up comedy.
1:27.0	That was Annie Russell, W. B. E. Z. news editor. We totally did not ask her to do that. However, we did ask Grace Bonnie how she recharges her batteries.
1:35.2	Grace is the creator of a gorgeous website called Design Sponge. She wrote a book
1:40.2	called In the Company of Women a couple of Years ago, it had gorgeous profiles and
1:45.1	portraits and Q&As of more than a hundred ladies who are bosses.
1:49.6	Women like insecure showrunner Esa Ray and author Roxanne Gay and poet
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