Episode
#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
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Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes | Brought to you by Dry Farm Wines natural wines designed for fewer hangovers, Allform premium, modular furniture, and LMNT electrolyte supplement. More on all three below.Suleika Jaouad (@suleikajaouad) is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir Between Two Kingdoms. She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column + video series “Life, Interrupted,” and her reporting and essays have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and NPR, among others. A highly sought-after speaker, her mainstage TED talk was one of the ten most popular of 2019 and has nearly four million views.She is also the creator of The Isolation Journals, a community creativity project founded during the COVID-19 pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude. Over 100,000 people from around the world have joined. You can find one of my favorite prompts, which I shared on my blog last spring, at tim.blog/dialogue.Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by Dry Farm Wines. I’m a wine drinker, and I love a few glasses over meals with friends. That said, I hate hangovers. For the last few months, all of the wine in my house has been from Dry Farm Wines. Why? At least in my experience, their wine means more fun with fewer headaches. Dry Farm Wines only ships wines that meet very stringent criteria: practically sugar free (less than 0.15g per glass), lower alcohol (less than 12.5% alcohol), additive free (there are more than 70 FDA-approved wine-making additives), lower sulfites, organic, and produced by small family farms.All Dry Farm Wines are laboratory tested for purity standards by a certified, independent enologist, and all of their wines are also backed by a 100% Happiness Promise—they will either replace or refund any wine you do not love. Last but not least, I find delicious wines I never would have found otherwise. It’s a lot of fun. Dry Farm Wines has a special offer just for listeners of the podcast—an extra bottle in your first box for just one extra penny. Check out all the details at DryFarmWines.com/Tim.*This episode is also brought to you by Allform! If you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while, you’ve probably heard me talk about Helix Sleep mattresses, which I’ve been using since 2017. They just launched a new company called Allform, and they’re making premium, customizable sofas and chairs shipped right to your door—at a fraction of the cost of traditional stores. You can pick your fabric (and they’re all spill, stain, and scratch resistant), the sofa color, the color of the legs, and the sofa size and shape to make sure it’s perfect for you and your home.Allform arrives in just 3–7 days, and you can assemble it yourself in a few minutes—no tools needed. To find your perfect sofa, check out Allform.com/Tim. Allform is offering 20% off all orders to you, my dear listeners, at Allform.com/Tim.*This episode is also brought to you by LMNT! What is LMNT? It’s a delicious, sugar-free electrolyte drink mix. I’ve stocked up on boxes and boxes of this and usually use it 1–2 times per day. LMNT is formulated to help anyone with their electrolyte needs and perfectly suited to folks following a keto, low-carb, or Paleo diet. If you are on a low-carb diet or fasting, electrolytes play a key role in relieving hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness.LMNT came up with a very special offer for you, my dear listeners. For a limited time, you can claim a free LMNT Sample Pack—you only cover the cost of shipping. For US customers, this means you can receive an 8-count sample pack for only $5. 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Chapters
Learn about Element, a supplement designed to assist with electrolyte needs and how it is related to hormones.
00:00 - 03:13 (03:13)
Summary
Learn about Element, a supplement designed to assist with electrolyte needs and how it is related to hormones. Also, discover a new company called All Form that creates custom sofas and chairs that can be shipped to your doorstep at a lower cost than traditional stores.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Prisoners in hospice care are being cared for by fellow inmates who have been trained in hospice work.
03:13 - 10:17 (07:04)
Summary
Prisoners in hospice care are being cared for by fellow inmates who have been trained in hospice work. They are not only providing compassionate care but also practicing restorative justice by reckoning with their pasts and being present in their fellow prisoners' final hours.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker reflects on his unsuccessful experience with a writing program but expresses how he found a sense of value and purpose in pairing stories from different perspectives.
10:17 - 20:06 (09:48)
Summary
The speaker reflects on his unsuccessful experience with a writing program but expresses how he found a sense of value and purpose in pairing stories from different perspectives. He also mentions how one of his stories contributed to the release of a man sentenced to life in prison.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker dropped out of high school to take classes at a small liberal arts college where her father taught and also attended the Juilliard Pre-College Program as a music student, while gaining confidence in her own unique perspective.
20:06 - 30:13 (10:07)
Summary
The speaker dropped out of high school to take classes at a small liberal arts college where her father taught and also attended the Juilliard Pre-College Program as a music student, while gaining confidence in her own unique perspective.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker shares how they built writing skills by practicing poetry, personal essays, and fiction, as a way to make up for not having a formal education.
30:13 - 36:28 (06:15)
Summary
The speaker shares how they built writing skills by practicing poetry, personal essays, and fiction, as a way to make up for not having a formal education.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker talks about her initial resistance to reading cancer-related literature, her experience battling cancer and the ways in which it reshaped her perspectives on her writing and future plans.
36:28 - 44:21 (07:52)
Summary
The speaker talks about her initial resistance to reading cancer-related literature, her experience battling cancer and the ways in which it reshaped her perspectives on her writing and future plans.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The writer discusses how novels like John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" helped her to process and understand her own experience with cancer, and how seeking out books that explore the subject can help others do the same.
44:21 - 57:09 (12:48)
Summary
The writer discusses how novels like John Green's "The Fault in Our Stars" helped her to process and understand her own experience with cancer, and how seeking out books that explore the subject can help others do the same.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker discusses their journey of accepting the reality of their post-cancer experience, removing expectations, and learning to exist in the messy middle.
57:09 - 1:05:07 (07:58)
Summary
The speaker discusses their journey of accepting the reality of their post-cancer experience, removing expectations, and learning to exist in the messy middle. They also touch upon their experience of a solo 15,000 mile road trip after learning to drive at 27.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Alice Zhang shares her experience of asking for a weekly column to write from the trenches of treatment and to really give ink to that experience of illness and youth.
1:05:07 - 1:12:13 (07:05)
Summary
Alice Zhang shares her experience of asking for a weekly column to write from the trenches of treatment and to really give ink to that experience of illness and youth. It all comes down to reaching for what you want and asking for what you want.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
A young adult with cancer finds a source of strength and community in connecting with others in a similar situation, including a woman named Salsa who invites her to visit her ranch in Montana once she is well again.
1:12:13 - 1:21:51 (09:38)
Summary
A young adult with cancer finds a source of strength and community in connecting with others in a similar situation, including a woman named Salsa who invites her to visit her ranch in Montana once she is well again. She also receives an email from another cancer patient in the next hospital room who is undergoing a bone marrow transplant for leukemia.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
A solo road trip helped the speaker confront their inner demons and be vulnerable with others, resulting in newfound confidence and empowerment.
1:21:51 - 1:36:49 (14:57)
Summary
A solo road trip helped the speaker confront their inner demons and be vulnerable with others, resulting in newfound confidence and empowerment.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The key to writing a great book is to write about what you don't want others to know about you, to bring specificity to your vague discomfort or longing, and your selective attention will start to see things that could contribute to what you've written down.
1:36:49 - 1:46:50 (10:01)
Summary
The key to writing a great book is to write about what you don't want others to know about you, to bring specificity to your vague discomfort or longing, and your selective attention will start to see things that could contribute to what you've written down.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
In this podcast, the guest discusses home renovation ideas such as modular furniture and transforming couches.
1:46:50 - 1:56:00 (09:10)
Summary
In this podcast, the guest discusses home renovation ideas such as modular furniture and transforming couches. She also talks about the 100 day project and invites the audience to journal alongside her and the community.
Episode#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Learn about the importance of electrolytes on low-carb diets and the benefits they provide in relieving hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness with Element.
1:56:00 - 1:58:53 (02:53)
Summary
Learn about the importance of electrolytes on low-carb diets and the benefits they provide in relieving hunger, cramps, headaches, tiredness, and dizziness with Element.