Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, I think that we talk about Taylor Swift a lot on this podcast, but why not?

To me, she's such an example of a high integrity person and someone who does not pander to her creative blocks, right?

She's a creation machine. How many albums? I don't even know. I'm currently really enjoying

the life of a showgirl too. I broke down a couple of my favorite songs on some other episodes

here. But why am I bringing her up today?

I saw a couple of snippets of her on the Stephen Colbert show because I believe her documentary just dropped the behind the scenes of her Eros tour.

And she said something that just stood out to me and I thought, gosh, I wish we did this

more as human beings.

I wish that we lent into this more because this is revealing and it can

teach us. Stephen Colbert asked her, okay, what's your favorite song? Right? She ended up saying

all too well is her number one, but I digress. And she said, you know, it's hard to say,

you know, I need almost like time to digest my most recent album. But she said, look, I'm just

so obsessed with my latest songs. That's it, my friend. She said, I'm just so obsessed

with the life of a showgirl tracks. I'm so obsessed. Are you obsessed with your work,

your book, your podcasts, the way you run a home, the job that you show up to each day, the outcomes that you produce? I am so tired of this. Oh, modesty, oh humility. Oh, I did my best. Oh, I'm a work in progress. No. How about you're obsessed with it? When we're obsessed with our own stuff, that is contagious. We can

feel it. Other people can feel it because we don't attract success by hoping for it or thinking,

you know, it exists one day in the future. When we are devoted, when we create and do things

that we fall in love with, that we are in love

with, our obsession becomes the work. It's not the reward. It's not the, oh yeah, most downloaded

or book sales or this or that. Our devotion here is the prize, our obsession with what it is

that we create. And I've got to tell you, success shows up

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