On September 22, Laura Burkett joined host Lisa Resnick on The Seed: Growing Your Business, the podcast from Dandelion-Inc about connecting, developing, and supporting women in business. Episode 156 is titled “This Is Not My Life: Laura Burkett on Resilience, Sisterhood & Starting Over.”
What the conversation covers
According to the episode description, Laura and Lisa talk about the memoir and the difference between endurance and resilience. They also talk about the pressure many women feel to always be “strong,” and how loss, vulnerability, sisterhood, and fear helped Laura rewrite the narrative of her life.
Those ideas will sound familiar to anyone who has read the book. Laura’s story is not one of simply getting through hard years. It is about what happened when she stopped getting through them quietly and started telling the truth about them, including the parts that were not polished or easy to say.
A connection to the summit
Lisa Resnick is also the co-founder of the Women Rising Summit, where Laura gave the keynote just ten days after the episode was released. If you listen first, you will recognize threads that Laura carried onto the stage, especially her idea that the facts of a life and the truth of it are not always the same thing. You can read more about that day in our summit keynote recap.
Why it is worth a listen
If you have already read This Is Not My Life, the episode offers Laura’s own reflections on some of the book’s central questions. If you have not, it is a good introduction to her voice, which readers describe as honest, funny, and warm even when the subject is heavy. Lisa has called it one of her favorite episodes she has ever recorded.
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