"The answer is, there is no answer" with Dr Sharon Blackie

Beautiful Misfits

Mary Portas

Society & Culture, Business

4.5 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Fear is a big one isn’t it? The fear of failure. The fear of stepping out of our lane and getting flattened. But in today’s episode of Beautiful Misfits, I talk to Dr Sharon Blackie about why confronting our fears is one of the vital keys to unlocking change in ourselves and the world around us. She did this. She was so afraid of flying - and failing in a big corporate life - that she took the radical step of training a pilot. Today Sharon is an author and teacher whose work centres on how to bring back balance into a world that’s gone so off course in many ways. And the ancient wisdom found in the stories of our past that provide the answers we need for the future. Follow Mary Portas on: Instagram: @maryportasofficial Facebook: Mary Portas And to get in touch with team Portas, email us at: [email protected] and you can subscribe to the Portas POV Newsletter for musings, provocation insights and inspiration.

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0:00.0	Sometimes we don't have all the answers.
0:09.0	All we can do is ask the questions.
0:11.0	But this will be unfamiliar, uncomfortable even for many of us,
0:16.0	because the world asks us again and again to be sure, to know, to have a firm opinion, to state our case and aggressively sometimes defend it.
0:25.0	But what if we started to look through the layers of thought we've always been exposed to, though, and seek out different stories?
0:32.1	It will certainly take us into unexpected places, moving away from the firm ground of accepted facts into something
0:39.6	more uncertain, could also feel disorientating. But the shifting mercurial landscape of questioning
0:46.4	is one of the most vital places we must go to, because it's here in this elemental space
0:53.1	that we will learn and evolve,
0:55.0	open ourselves up to being guided towards new lights, and we will not be alone there.
1:01.0	More and more of us are asking questions right now, sick of the old ways,
1:07.0	wondering, is there a different path?
1:09.0	And we can find solace, inspiration in the people who are on this journey with us.
1:15.5	Some you will know in real life, they're friends, their people you meet, who share your
1:19.9	worldview.
1:21.2	Others, however, will not be found in your immediate surroundings.
1:24.6	But they may leap off the page or a podcast or wherever you find
1:28.5	inspiration to become a much valued companion. Dr Sharon Blackie is one to me. A few friends
1:35.8	recommended her book if Women Rose Rooted and it was one of those that sat on the pile for a bit.
1:41.2	But then I opened it and within just a few, Sharon's words are deeply connected with me.
1:47.0	I've since gone on to find solace, inspiration and wisdom again and again in her pages.
1:53.0	Sharon is an award-winning writer and psychologist. She's authored five books of fiction and non-fiction.
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