#820: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Find Your Inner Voice, Set Strong Boundaries, and Live a Life of Radical Ease (Repost)

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Hello, boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to interview people from all different disciplines, all different walks of life to tease out the habits, routines, thoughts, lessons learned and so on that you can apply to your own lives. My guest today, one of my favorites, Elizabeth Gilbert. She is the number one New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love, as well as several other international bestsellers. She's been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Penn-Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, City of Girls, was named an instant New York Times bestseller, a rollicking, sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the 1940s. You can go to elizabethgilbert.substack.com to subscribe to Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert, her newsletter, which has more than 120,000 subscribers. You can find her on Instagram at elizabethgilbert.writer.

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