Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond: Your Creative Power to Write a New Story

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Rebecca Walker is a bestselling author, lifelong activist, and TV and film producer, named one of the most influential leaders of her generation by Time magazine. Lily Diamond is also a bestselling author and a photographer, wellness advocate, and creator of the award-winning blog and memoir cookbook Kale & Caramel. Together, they have written a book called What's Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution, published by Sounds True. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami speaks with Lily and Rebecca about the power of the right question to move us in the direction of claiming our narratives and using the power of our imagination to create our future. They discuss the importance of telling our own stories in the ways only we can. They also explore how rewriting the stories we tell about ourselves and our world can ignite the alchemical process of everyday evolution, moving us in the direction of healing society, the Earth, and our own spirits.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True. My name is Tammy Simon. I'm the founder of Sounds True, and I'd love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation. The Sounds True Foundation is
0:16.2	dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available.
0:25.0	We want everyone to have access to transformational tools
0:30.0	such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges.
0:40.8	The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, including at-risk youth, prisoners, veterans, and those in developing countries.
0:55.6	If you'd like to learn more or feel inspired to become a supporter, please visit
1:01.0	Sounds True Foundation.org.
1:03.4	You're listening to Insights at the Edge.
1:09.4	Today my guests are Lily Diamond and Rebecca Walker.
1:16.0	Lily and Rebecca met in 2009 at Rebecca's Art of the Memoir Masterclass.
1:24.0	They spent the next decade developing,
1:27.0	What's Your Story?
1:28.0	A self-inquiry method that integrates
1:31.0	insights from their combined 40 years of personal and political activism,
1:37.0	memoir writing, and their practice in Buddhist Hindu and Western healing traditions.
1:43.7	Rebecca Walker is a best-selling author, lifelong activist,
1:48.4	and TV and film producer.
1:50.6	She was named one of the most influential leaders of her generation by Time magazine.
1:57.0	Lily Diamond is also a best-selling author and a photographer, Wellness Advocate, and creator of the award-winning blog and memoir cookbook,
2:06.9	Kale and Carmel. Together, Rebecca and Lily have written a new book. It's called What's Your Story? A Journal for
2:15.8	your Everyday Evolution. It's comprised of 150 questions designed to be answered in as little as five 50 questions
2:25.0	these are designed to be answered in as little as five minutes or as long as a lifetime.
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