Worth the Trouble

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

"How do you know when something is worth the trouble? That’s the question Martha’s exploring in this episode of The Gathering Room, and the short answer is: If it’s your passion, it’s always worth the trouble! Martha’s recent trip to New York with her family to see Ani DiFranco on Broadway ended up being an enormous amount of trouble—but when she finally got to see the show, she was blown away. She found that the joy it brought her was worth all the trouble it took to get there. She also realized that so much of the art and music and writing that inspires us—the astonishing art, the amazing music, the brilliant books—took an enormous amount of trouble to create. And the fact that these things take trouble to create means they’re worth the trouble. Are you looking for some creative inspiration? Want to find out if your latest passion is worth the trouble it’s going to take? Then this episode is for you! You can also participate in Martha’s guided meditation to help you tap into the creative power of silence, space, and stillness."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:08.2	I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.6	We just got back.
0:10.6	My family just got back from going to New York City.
0:15.5	We went to see Hades Town, which for the first time ever on the night we saw it, featured a wonderful singer
0:26.3	songwriter named Ani DeFranco. If you haven't heard of her, you should.
0:30.4	Ani DeFranco was playing one of the lead roles in Hades Town.
0:34.2	And Hades Town was, you know, one best musical.
0:37.9	It's the story of Orpheus and Eurydice from mythology, but it's, you know, updated for our times, great music, and the whole thing.
0:47.1	So, you know, I love a Broadway musical and I love Ani DiFranco.
0:50.8	And the other thing was that we'd been reading on Patreon how Ani DeFranco was having
0:56.4	such a hard time getting into the role. So she's been this brilliant singer super successful,
1:03.4	started when she was like no years old, 10 or something. Seriously, she started professionally
1:09.6	when she was about 16. Now she's 52, and for the first time
1:13.9	ever, she was going to be in a Broadway show. And she went to New York with her daughter, and they
1:19.4	got in an apartment. She said, okay, I'm going to go and do my role as Persephone in Hadesown.
1:24.9	And then we started reading online a series of sort of horrified,
1:30.1	what have I done, stories from Annie about how hard it is. Like she's a consummate performer and
1:38.9	everything, but she'd never been in anything where you have to do this. Very specific dancing, very specific singing, and you have to be at exactly the right place
1:48.9	on the stage when you say each syllable precisely in concert with everybody else.
1:55.6	And you're not allowed to vary at all.
1:58.7	And she was like, I thought I'd be able to bring some of myself to it and kind of rock out.
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