Marianne Cantwell on Becoming a Free Range Human

Is it possible to be in the spotlight AND still be true to yourself? Today’s guest has built her career proving that it is.

Marianne Cantwell is the author of the international bestseller Be A Free Range Human (translated into 6 languages and features everywhere from Business Week, The Guardian and on BBC World). An expert on creating a free range career and a successful work-life that fits your personality and the life you want.

Thousands have done her courses on finding your thing (and making it work as you). Her TEDx Talk The Hidden Power Of Not (Always) Fitting In has been viewed close to half a million times and listed on Entrepreneur.com as one of the Top 10 TED Talks to overcome the fear of failure.

She lives and works in several countries (often between London and NYC or sunny California), and carries her business in an unexpectedly tiny laptop.

In this episode, Marianne dives deep into her story. She explains the depressive spiral she encountered after becoming an author and talks about harnessing the courage to end a six-figure membership program. Plus, Marianne describes how to look at our lives with evidence and why being highly-sensitive is (actually) a superpower.

In this Episode You’ll Learn:

All about today’s guest, Marianne Cantwell [ 0:30 ]
About Marianne’s experience with depression [ 6:55 ]
How easily we should let things go [ 13:50 ]
Why we need the courage to end things [ 21:30 ]
About being a free range human [ 28:50 ]
How being highly-sensitive is a superpower [ 33:30 ]
About the hidden power of not (always) fitting in [ 37:30 ]
How to translate our strengths into a package [ 41:20 ]
Ways to harness our weaknesses [ 46:30 ]
That everyone gets to choose their own game [ 50:30 ]
What Marianne would tell a former version of herself [ 55:00 ]

Soul Shifting Quotes:

“If you don’t shut it down, you’ll get run over by someone who cares more.”
“A free range human is someone who is working toward doing something that lets them be who they are.”
“My true self is always going to bubble up.”
“Packaging is a gift you give to people.”
“Weaknesses are just strengths in the wrong environment.”

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