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Welcome my friends. So glad to have you with us. And I just am aware that you're tuning in from many continents and it feels so beautiful to be able to gather in this way and feel us come together from all our spots for we are many more.

And we are many more in lockdown than we might have been even last week. So it makes it extra special.

And I am really excited and delighted to have Elizabeth lesser with me tonight for a conversation and a little bit on Elizabeth.

I am the co-founder of the Omega Institute and many of you have been there. I have been there and taught there for decades now. It's an amazing place and it has kind of opened up to the world so many kind of pioneering programs.

Elizabeth has initiated some of the most amazing conferences in the world.

I have been given to popular TED talks and it's the author of a number of books including New York Times best selling book, Broken Open, how difficult times can help us grow.

And her most recent book which will be focusing on in which I've read and oh my gosh, I highly highly recommend that we'll talk about is Cassandra speaks when women are the storytellers, the human story changes.

And so in brief this beautiful, powerful book reveals how humanity has outgrown its original tales and hero mess.

And it empowers women to trust their instincts to find their voice until new guiding stories that can really create the world that we believe in.

Elizabeth is a friend of my heart and a deeply respected colleague. And if you don't know or if you haven't known her before you will understand why I'm speaking in superlatives.

Elizabeth, we are so delighted to have you with us. Thank you.

Thank you. Thanks.

It's a pleasure. Thank you. Hello everybody from all over the place. It's just lovely to be with you.

Yes, I want to jump right in to do with your new book because first of all we get grabbed by the title Cassandra speaks. Can you just how did you come up with that title who was Cassandra let's just start writing with that.

Well, I've always loved mythology and religious texts. I just love reading whether it's the Bible or the Quran or the Buddhist texts or the Hindu texts. I've just always just, you know, because humans learn through stories. That's how we learn.

So I've been fascinated with stories and I didn't take me long to notice even way back in college that wow most of the books we love the heroes, tales, the parables, the myths.

They're written and told by men because back in the day, PS also a lot now, the storytellers were men and there's nothing wrong with the stories, men tell and the values, men tell their stories from.

But a big swath of humanity was left out of the storytelling so I went back and reading and reinterpreting everything from Adam and Eve to Chinese stories to the Greek myths and as I was writing and I was writing about one of the Greek tales, the tale of Cassandra.

We were in the midst of the Me Too movement. Now I know that seems maybe like ancient history now we've all been through so much, but really it was just like a year and a half ago. And one night I was watching television and I was watching the televised trial of those young girls who had been molested by their doctor, Dr. Larry Nasser and the judge in a rare way of dealing with a trial.

First of all allowed it to be televised and allowed 125 girls to tell their story in front of the cameras with Dr. Nasser sitting there.

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