Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2024-01-15
Books mentioned on Survival Is A Creative Act: Suleika Jaouad’s American Symphony of Contrast—Cancer, Art, Music, & Life
What do you do when the power goes out? You improvise and turn it into a creative act.
Suleika Jaouad discussed Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad. Rich Roll discussed The Creative Act by Rick Rubin.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Wild
Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling memoir, Wild, chronicles her grueling 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail as a journey of emotional healing and personal transformation following profound personal loss.
Discussed“And she said to me the funny thing about that is that when I went to go right wild you know famous Memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail I told myself whatever it is that I write about I don't want to write about my dead mother”
Where to get it
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Between Two Kingdoms
Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad is a compelling memoir chronicling the author's battle with leukemia and her subsequent journey of recovery and reintegration into normal life.
Discussed“And so my book between two kingdoms was about this road trip but of course it was all about the struggle of not only falling ill but figuring out who I was and the aftermath of that and figuring out how to carry you know what had happened forward with meh that book ends up on the New York Times”
Where to get it
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The Creative Act
The Creative Act: A Way of Being is a guide to harnessing artistic perspective and spiritual approaches to creativity by legendary music producer Rick Rubin.
Discussed“so one of the things that I was meant to do during that trip was to interview Rick Rubin in front of a group of people so I had an early copy of his book The creative act I read it on the plane on the way to Sicily and I was very impacted by that book”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“She's an Emmy award-winning New York Times columnist and author of The New York Times best-selling Memoir between two kingdoms”
“I packed you know pajamas the usual things but I also packed like War and Peace and every book in the Canon that I hadn't yet read and announced to my parents that I was going to use the summer in the hospital to read through the remainder of the Canon”
“So let me first go on record and say that I do not read any of those books I have yet to read war in peace”
“so about two weeks before between two kingdoms came out I got a letter from GQ saying that he had gotten a date he had gotten an execution date and this was after you know spending more than half of his life almost 25 years on death row”
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“my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner at meals. roll.com”
“my books Finding Ultra voicing change in the plant power way as well as the plant power meal planner at meals. roll.com”