About this episode
313. How to Turn a Mistake into Magic with Suleika Jaouad Glennon speaks one-on-one with the brilliant Suleika Jaouad about Suleika's journey through the messy middle – living well in a body that does not feel well, and creating a life of beautiful defiance. Discover: Why believing we should “Live everyday like our last” is unhelpful; Why the unproductive periods of life are *actually* where you do the most work; The specific, best ways to really show up for friends who are in the messy middle; How to alchemize your pain into creativity; and The lessons we can all learn from Jellyfish Suleika Jaouad is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir, Between Two Kingdoms . She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column “Life, Interrupted,” and her reporting and essays have been featured in the New York Times Magazine , The Atlantic , Vogue , and NPR, among others. A highly sought-after speaker, her TED Talk – “What Almost Dying Taught Me About Living” – has nearly five million views. She is also the creator of The Isolation Journals , a community creativity project founded during the pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude. IG: @suleikajaouad