2018-07-24
1 小时 5 分钟Growing up, my guest today, Grace Bonnie, well, she was all about culture and music with a strong connection to jam bands, and that eventually landed her on the business side of music in media.
And along the way, she also just kind of happened to launch this side project called Design Sponge, and that was all about sharing her insights about a growing passion for accessible home design.
That blog exploded.
Eventually.
She left her full time job to build design sponge into a full blown media company of her own with a giant global audience, a book, travel, and a fast increasing public profile.
But along the way, Grace's interests evolved, creating a bit of a gap between what she was creating professionally and what she genuinely cared about and how she wanted to live.
Well, that all came to a head about five years ago when pretty much every part of her life, her marriage, her health, her work life, were profoundly disrupted, setting in motion kind of an awakening to a new direction in all of those domains.
Grace was diagnosed with type one diabetes, completely changing the way she would live her life.
Her marriage ended, and then she came out, fell in love with her now wife, Julia.
She wrote a new book called in the company of women, not about design, but about powerful, creative women in business.
She launched a print magazine called Good Company, moved out of New York City, her home of 15 years, to live in a country hamlet with only about 400 people, and rediscover a truer sense of community and purpose and presence.
And we dive into this really remarkable, powerful, and inspiring journey.
In today's conversation, I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
You grew up in Virginia.
Mm hmm.
And at some point, from what I know, your dad became an entrepreneur when you were a kid.
I'm curious to sort of, like, learn how did that happen and how do you experience it as a kid?
It's interesting.
He was not an entrepreneur by choice.
My dad worked in advertising forever.