What Story Are You Telling Yourself? With Mary Marantz
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mary Marantz is an author, a speaker and a top photographer. She and her husband were named one of the top 15 wedding photographers in the world, according to Profoto. They have also been featured in publications including Martha Stewart, Style Me Pretty, and more. Mary shares her story of grit and figuring out where she belonged. Growing up from humble means in a West Virginia coal mining country, she eventually ended up at Yale Law School. As she navigated this unknown terrain, walking alongside others who seemed sure of their paths toward law and education, Mary felt that she was made for something different. Despite offers right out of college for law jobs that paid 6 figures, Mary decided to “leap and believed the net would appear.” That leap eventually led to the highly successful photography business she and her husband run today. Mary’s conversation with Jessica about their respective “going scared” moments will challenge us all to question the stories we may tell ourselves that keep us from pursuing our dreams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jessica Honegger, founder of the socially conscious fashion brand Noonday |
| 0:07.1 | collection. Welcome to the Going Scared Podcast. Just get ready for today's Congress. going scared podcast. |
| 0:16.6 | Just get ready for today's conversation. I can't wait for you to listen in with my guest today. |
| 0:20.2 | It's Mary Marantz. |
| 0:21.9 | Mary is an author, speaker, educator, and a photographer, and her works has been featured in publications, including mattress Stewart, Stalmy Pretty, and more. Mary is one of those people. She's my kind of people. She's |
| 0:36.4 | our people. I'm so excited for you to hear from her today. So today I wanted to sit down |
| 0:40.6 | with Mary because she has such an incredible story of grit. |
| 0:44.8 | She actually grew up in a humble home. |
| 0:46.9 | She describes it as a dirt floor home in West Virginia coal mining country with a coal mining |
| 0:52.3 | father and she took those lessons that she |
| 0:54.9 | learned from growing up all the way to law school and eventually to start her own |
| 0:59.2 | entrepreneurial endeavors as a photographer an educator educator, and a speaker, and a soon to be writer. |
| 1:07.0 | I really enjoyed our conversation because we talk about how easy it is to tell ourselves stories especially about our belonging based on how we grew up. |
| 1:16.4 | But I love how she told herself a story of belonging at Yale and how she really uses |
| 1:21.6 | connections from Yale to help launch her photography business. |
| 1:27.4 | I know I learned a lot from today's episode that I wasn't necessarily expecting to learn |
| 1:32.3 | and you're going to do the same. |
| 1:34.7 | Hey Mary, welcome to today's episode of Going Scared. |
| 1:38.2 | Oh my gosh, thank you so much for having me, Jessica. I'm so excited. |
| 1:41.7 | And when I sort of like got the email to come on I |
| 1:45.8 | just couldn't believe it so I'm so pumped to talk today. Well I'm excited too I |
| 1:50.2 | have worked with a lot of photographers over the years shooting our lookbooks |
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