Your New Life Blend
Has there ever been a better time to decide what our lives should look like? We are emerging from a once-in-a-century cataclysm where our lives were upended, our communities remade and our priorities readjusted. Now as the call to return to "normal" grows more insistent, we get to ask the question: what does "normal" look like? Did the old normal serve me? What do I want my new normal to be? And what will that mean for my career, my community, and my family? These are the fundamental questions to building our lives - and now, rebuilding them. As a therapist and coach, Shoshanna Hecht has been wrestling with these very questions in her practice - and now, on this podcast. With guests from all walks of life including media, culture, politics, tech, business & activism, Shoshanna examines the overlap of our goals, relationships, boundaries and priorities, and how we can navigate them all with self-awareness and intention. What do we want our lives to look like? Welcome to Your New Life Blend.
Your New Life Blend
Glynnis MacNicol, Author, "I'm Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself"
Glynnis MacNicol spent the long stretch of COVID lockdown mostly alone in small Upper West Side apartment, mostly without really touching another person. So by summer 2021, after vaccines had rolled out and restrictions were finally lifting, she jumped at the chance to stay at a friend's apartment in Paris, and immediately bought a plane ticket out of her pandemic-imposed solitude. Landing in Paris she found a city just waking up from its own lockdown, and felt in Parisians all around her the same urgent, greedy desire to enjoy every pleasure life had to offer - food (cheese, croissants, chocolate), community (in-person, Zoom be damned), and connection (very much in person, very pleasurable, very much enjoyed). She recounts it all and then some in her joyful, decadent, and insightful new memoir, "I'm Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris," coming in June, which dares to suggest that women have the right to enjoy themselves - and their choices - fully and gloriously, without needing permission. In this episode of "Your New Life Blend," Glynnis talks to host Shoshanna Hecht about how seeking & claiming pleasure is actually a radical feminist act; the power of a free woman freely making her own choices; the joys of embracing your life unfolding at any age; and why we all deserve to truly enjoy ourselves.
SHOW NOTES
Website
https://www.glynnismacnicol.com/
I'm Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736781/im-mostly-here-to-enjoy-myself-by-glynnis-macnicol
No One Tells You This
https://www.glynnismacnicol.com/noonetellsyouthis.html
Podcast: "Wilder"
https://www.glynnismacnicol.com/wilder.html
Newsletter: "Good Decisions"
https://glynnismacnicol.substack.com
"I Think We’re Alone Now. Welcome." New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/style/self-care/coronavirus-living-alone.html
"Growing Up Meant Learning How to Wear Red Lipstick," The Cut
https://www.thecut.com/2014/12/growing-up-meant-learning-to-wear-red-lipstick.html
"I Miss My Lipstick," New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/style/lipsticks-to-wear-with-masks.html
Other Writing:
https://www.glynnismacnicol.com/other-writing.html
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/noonetellsyouthis
References:
The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Significant-Others-Reimagining-Friendship/dp/1250280915
Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Why?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jennifer-sciubba.html
TheLi.st, founded by Glynnis MacNicol & Rachel Sklar
https://nypost.com/2020/11/24/exclusive-womens-social-network-sold-to-shokets-new-power-media