So my guest today, Elizabeth Gilbert, has been on the show in the past, about four, four and a half years ago, actually.
She's an author.
Back in 2006, came out with Eat, Prate Love, a series of novels and memoirs and other books since then.
Tremendous wisdom, tremendous insight.
She has a new book out now called City of Girls, which is a fun, engaging, playful, intense novel about life and about a group of characters in the 1940s in New York City.
It also touches on some really powerful, relevant issues of the day, and we talk about that a bit.
But in the time since Liz has been in the studio with me, her life has also gone through its own incredibly powerful narrative arc, her own journey, leaving one relationship, falling in love with somebody new, that somebody new, knowing that she only had a certain amount of time left on the planet as she was living with cancer.
And Liz spent that time with her and then had to figure out, how do I move forward?
How do I wake up each day and reclaim and redefine and set the new parameters of my life moving forward?
And we explore a lot of that in today's conversation.
It's wide ranging, it is emotional, it's powerful.
As always with Liz, there are so many things that she thinks about and says and shares that are healing and welcoming and inclusive that you may want to listen a few times and potentially even with a pad and a pencil to take some notes.
Super excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
Last time you and I hung out in the studio was four ish, four or five years ago.
It was right around when big magic came out.
Yep.
And it was interesting.
Cause I was reflecting, because when that episode came out, our audience's response was bonkers.
Oh, I was like, this is amazing.