2016-07-31
1 小时 2 分钟So imagine stepping out of your day to day life and just dropping yourself into a gorgeous 130 acre natural playground for three and a half days of learning and laughing and moving your body and calming your brain and reconnecting with people who just see the world the way that you do and accept you completely as you are.
So that's what we've created with our campus good life project or camp GLP experience.
We've actually brought together a lineup of really inspiring teachers, from art to entrepreneurship, from writing to meditation, pretty much everything in between.
It's this beautiful way to fill your noggin with ideas to live and work better, and a really rare opportunity to create the type of friendships and stories you pretty much thought you left behind decades ago.
It's all happening at the end of August, just about 90 minutes from New York City, and we're well on our way to selling out spots at this point.
So be sure to grab your spot as soon as you can.
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I look at people who I admire, and they're frequently people who do tons of stuff, like the writer George Plimpton, like, he was a boxer and then he, like, flew a plane for a while.
And, you know, all these different things that these different people do.
To me, that makes a pretty interesting life.
Growing up in Iowa, today's guest, Mary Fons, pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
And she started to pursue that in a pretty aggressive way until a pretty major medical incident hit, which led to surgery and changed the future of her life.
And as she tried to stitch together what that would look like, she literally turned to her mom, who had become sort of legendary in the world of quilting in the US, in fact, wrote what was considered the bible of quilting.
This world, in case you didn't know, and I didn't know until I had this conversation, is huge.
There are some 21 million devoted quilters in the US alone, and from a revenue standpoint, it is a $4 billion industry.
Her mom, Mary Ann Fons, had become one of the leaders since the late seventies in this space, and her exposure to that sort of planted the seed for her to literally think of the metaphor of stitching, to stitch together her life after this major surgery and major medical incident, and at the same time start to adopt or start to practice a lot more, this art, this craft, this career and profession of quilting.
And she built a very substantial name and eventually we ended up working and today works side by side with her mom.
But under the surface something else was brewing and has been brewing for a long time.
And that is that Jones to write that has never left her in today's conversation.