This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking about self-promotion and why it’s so easy to promote others, but it’s so hard when it comes to ourselves. We wade into the all-too-loaded worded “bragging”<—what is it and how can we transcend the word to get to what we really mean underneath: the desire to share our creation babies with the world.
We also discuss what Carrie is up to now that she’s 40 years-old including her commitment to writing every day. Finally, we reflect on the word “goulash.”
References:
Carrie’s Substack // Follow Carrie’s Writing Here —> carrieschaeffer.substack.com
“Licking Ourselves Up Off the Floor” - an original poem by Carrie Schaeffer
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, book by Elizabeth Gilbert
TIMECODES
0:00 - Introduction
0:39 - Internet Woes
4:13 - Carrie is 40
7:15 - Looking back on decades
9:46 - Carrie’s poem - “Licking Ourselves Up Off the Floor”
13:57 - We’re back
15:03 - Putting ourselves out there
20:50 - Bragging
26:23 - Christianity and Humility
40:50 - Competitive Bragging vs. Joyful Sharing
52:17 - What do we do?
55:24 - What is goulash?