The Power of Audience Capture

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i was introduced to a term this week that i had not heard before, called audience capture. What it meant was that once you build an audience, that audience starts to shape who you become. You start to want to fit the mould of what your audience expects of you. And we all have audiences. Our audience might be three people or 30 million people. But but we all have one. It's choosing to be who we want to be, separate from those voices, based on our own values and our own practices. That feels reallyke really important work right nowexperience the thrill of broadway as wicked flies back to omahadon't miss the untold, true story of the

Shauna Niequist is the New York Times Best Selling author of many books such as Present Over Perfect, Bread and Wine, Cold Tangerines, and others. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.

In this episode, Eric and Shauna discuss her book, I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ones Stop Working.

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Shauna Niequist and I Discuss How to Discover New Ways of Living and …

Her book, I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ones Stop Working
Why the word hospitality is important to her
What self-compassion means to her and how she practices it
Seeing out beauty as an act of prayer, worship, and resistance
Putting herself in the path of joy and beauty, giving herself the greatest chance to find them
How to practice being easily delighted
It’s ok for the joy of something to be that it feels like play
Seeing people different from you is a reminder that you can change and find a new way of being
How radical and freeing it is to consent to the reality of the way things are
The value of adding to our toolkit of ways we can help ourselves when we are struggling
What it means for her that sometimes saying no is in service to a much better yes