Mark Nepo

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918 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 8 Jan

Mark Nepo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Mel Robbins Podcast · The Exact Words You Need to Hear Today If It Feels Like Nothing’s Working · 13 Nov 2025 podcast

And now all of a sudden, it gets in our heads from society and from, okay, what do I have to do to become a singer?

Does that mean I have to take lessons?

Does that mean I have to get a record recorded?

Do I have to perform or if singing brings you alive, whether you sing well or not, you're a singer.

So how do we stay a verb and not become a noun?

And this is at the heart of finding our own gift.

You know, um,

I think it was Howard Thurman who said, we don't need people, oh, I can't remember the exact quote, but the essence of it was we need people who are alive, not people who are, quote, good at what they do, because if we're alive, we will be good at what we do.

Oh, thank you.

You read it beautifully.

So one of the things about all my writing is that the flower doesn't dream of the bee, it blossoms and the bee comes.

I didn't know that when I started that.

And this is where over time I've discovered that the creative process and the introspective process are really the same thing.

I just happen to write it down.

And so there are so many lessons.

And one of them, which is, again, the sense that we don't know.

So for anyone, by being authentic, we are given insights.

And so when I start things, I am following what is real or troubling or wondrous or confusing for me.

And then if I am true, I'm rewarded with an insight.

And that, of course, is the insight of that whole entry.

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