Reframing Success with Novelist Marissa Stapley (Episode 24)

02/16/22 • 39 min

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Bec and Nat interview writer Marissa Stapley, whose writing career takes a major turn when Reese Witherspoon endorses her latest novel Lucky.
Marissa Stapley has worked as a newspaper journalist and magazine editor, and is now the internationally bestselling author of the novels Lucky, a Reese’s Book Club December 2021 Pick, The Last Resort, Things to do When It’s Raining, and Mating for Life. Her work has been published in fifteen countries and two of her novels, including Lucky, have been optioned for television. She also co-writes holiday rom-coms (The Holiday Swap, All I Want for Christmas) under the pen name Maggie Knox. She lives in Toronto with her family.
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Bec and Nat decide to reframe the January blues with gratitude as their February focus.
Nat recalls an episode of The Huberman Lab podcast where he talks about the necessity of introducing story/narrative to really make for a truly brain-changing gratitude practice.
Bec reads a shiver-inducing letter from one of Nat’s students and then they check in on how Nat is feeling post reading!
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They decide to write their own kids letters to encourage their own practice of gratitude.

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Books we mention:
Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl; An Interrupted Life by Etty Hellisum; The Writing Life by Annie Dillard.

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Reframeables - Reframing Success with Novelist Marissa Stapley (Episode 24)

Transcript

Rebecca
The person I most like to be analytical and self-deprecating with is my sister. She can take it. She tells me to reframe. Everyone could benefit from a conversation with her. She’s who I go to when I need to dissect the hard topics that I wake up obsessing about. I’ll ask tons of questions and she’ll sister us through, via text or wine or coffee — all useful vices, since the Davey sisters are a strong cup of coffee. So come here if you can relate or need som