Queer Eye's Bobby Berk and the Fire Inside Us All

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Our next guest in our Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire series is—get ready—Queer Eye’s delightful design guru Bobby Berk. Bobby walks us through the backstory we’ve all gotten glimpses of on TV: how he left home at 15, after realizing he was gay and knowing he would struggle against rejection and hatred in his small hometown. This began a tough journey where he worked multiple jobs, slept in his car, moving to Denver then eventually NYC, where he worked his way up at various design retailers before opening his own acclaimed design business. Bobby gives us the inside scoop on the nail-biting process of becoming part of the Fab 5 (and why Jonathan thinks Bobby would be the first to go in a zombie apocalypse!), and what gives him joy and fire being part of that crew and changing lives around the globe. Bobby tells us there’s enough love and success to go around, and in the spirit of reversing lies we’ve been told about ourselves, Bobby refuses to accept that we all aren’t capable of success. As Bobby’s story illustrates, we can make our dreams happen if we freely and fiercely go after them.

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0:00.0	There is enough success and happiness out there for everyone and the more we you know
0:09.6	encourage other people and support other people to find that success and happiness, the
0:14.3	more we'll come for us.
0:17.4	Welcome to the fierce free and full of fire series here on the For the Love Podcast.
0:23.5	Today we're talking to queer eyes Bobby Burke about how learning to love yourself is
0:31.3	the key to loving the rest of the world.
0:41.8	Hey everybody, Jim Hatmaker here, your host of the For the Love Podcast.
0:46.4	Welcome to the show.
0:48.4	You lucky thing that you're here today.
0:51.2	You're going to love every minute of today.
0:53.7	Okay, really quickly before I get into it, just a reminder, we are in a series called
0:59.0	For the Love of being fierce, free and full of fire because you may have heard I wrote
1:05.2	a book called fierce, free and full of fire and it releases April 21st.
1:13.5	This is a weird time, right?
1:15.9	To release a book, except that I just keep thumbing through the pages and thinking, this
1:21.1	is going to serve my community.
1:23.4	This is what we need right now.
1:24.6	We got to figure out in flux right now how to be fierce and free and full of fire and
1:29.8	I am just telling you, weirdly, there are so many tools in here that now I am looking
1:36.5	at in light of being sort of quarantined and isolated from each other and having to dig
1:43.0	deep and find some resiliency.
1:44.8	I'm like, oh my gosh, we need this now more than ever.
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