My guest this week on The Shift podcast is the Harvard-trained sociologist and globally renowned life coach, Martha Beck.
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I first encountered today’s guest back when I was editor of Red magazine and – for some crazy reason – went to an Oprah convention in Atlanta.
(I know right? I can literally hear everyone who knows me in real life laughing.)
So, yes! I went to Atlanta to see Oprah but really I went to see someone else – a woman who Oprah described as “one of the smartest women I know”. Martha Beck.
Martha is a Harvard trained sociologist and life coach who was Oprah’s no-nonsense agony aunt on O magazine for almost two decades. she has not one not two but three degrees, as you do. And is the author of ten bestselling non-fiction books, including Steering by Starlight which you might have heard
raving about on a recent episode of The Shift.(And it’s not just me, Lindsay and Oprah, Martha is beloved by such self help luminaries as
and Glennon Doyle.)Her new book Beyond Anxiety could not be better timed!
Martha joined me from her home in Pennsylvania to give us all a mahoosive pep talk on how to manage our anxiety. We also discussed surviving the 3am panic spiral, why she only got a handle on her own anxiety at 60, being a late blooming lesbian and what she’s learnt from parenting at 20 and 60 – and frankly a whole lot more.
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• If you enjoyed this, you might like to know that there are 230 more episodes, all free to listen! Here are a few you might enjoy:
• Listen to Martha's podcast with Rowan Morgan Bewildered and her solo podcast The Gathering Room.
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