BONUS: Maye Musk On Her Life & Raising Elon
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Who is Maye Musk and what is her new book "Timeless" about?
May Musk is a model, a dietician, and at 78 years old, also a social media phenom. But she is probably best known as Elon Musk's mother. May, thank you so much for joining us. You are here to discuss your new book, Timeless, the Art of Reinvention and Resilience at Any Age. And For folks who don't know, you're a dietician. You're a cover model. You kind of do it all. You're, of course, the mother to three children, including Elon Musk. But for people who aren't as familiar with your work, I would just love for you to briefly recap how you built this incredible life. And you did all of that really in the last few decades. You've created this incredible career. Just walk us through some of the highlights there.
Well, I think from my 50s, I started doing better. Well, first of all, you're married and it's not going well, but you have three great kids and then you get divorced and then you struggle financially, but you don't have a miserable life. You know, you can do without dinners and then you can do without movies or fancy clothes or anything as long as you don't have somebody who's nasty around shouting at you all the time. Yeah. And so that was fine. So I was I was always happy, even, you know, when we moved to Toronto in a in a rent controlled apartment, we just cleaned it up. You know, we we just didn't have any problems with that. And then also when I did my dietetics internship living in a one bedroom apartment.
Because it was attached to the hospital.
Because I
wanted to learn more about chronic diseases because I was doing more obesity and I wanted to do more with diabetics and heart disease and cancer and that. And then I said to Kimball recently, why did you put up with that? And he said, well, if we complained, would you have listened? And I said, no.
No.
So they put up with it.
One of the striking things, though, about the book, and I think for people who aren't as familiar with you and your work, they know you're this famous supermodel. You're on the cover at times of Sports Illustrated. I mean, you've done it all. And so what was so interesting about this book is that you detail – you were couch surfing at 60, right? You were in a rent-controlled apartment. I mean, you really fought through – so many different chapters in life. When you were thinking about writing this book and telling your story, was part of it that you sort of wanted to set the record straight and be honest and vulnerable with people about how challenging it actually is?
Well, I went into quite a lot of details, which I don't share. And even people who know me, they read the stories and they say, I didn't know that was happening because I wasn't complaining to people. Yeah. But some people were really involved with it and they say it's good that that came out. And it's just that, you know, People suffer a lot
in
this world and they don't think there's a way out.
And
then they need to focus on how are you going to get out of this miserable situation. And even if it means you have less income or you struggle in some way, you can always go back to your miserable situation. So you've got to then take a chance and make a change quicker than I did.
Yeah. Well, and I want to get into your marriage too, but I think it was just also striking in this that you write about, I mean, what some people in America would say is poverty at points. And at no point are you sorry for yourself or have a victim mentality, which is so different, I would say, than what we see in our culture a lot of people sort of celebrate being a victim and they don't have a lot of sort of resilience to get through that. Your thoughts on that?
Well, first of all, my family and friends, they said, we didn't know you were suffering financially. You never complained. And I didn't see why it should be anybody else's. It isn't their problem. I've chosen that. So when you, for example, live in a one-bedroom apartment or couch serve, you know,
How did Maye’s early marriage, divorce and financial struggles shape her resilience?
Or sleep on a mattress on the floor. It's really helped that my parents took us to the Kalahari Desert where you sleep on a sleeping bag on the ground and you hope the hyenas don't bite off your face.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Maye Musk and what is her new book "Timeless" about?
0:01–4:25
2
How did Maye’s early marriage, divorce and financial struggles shape her resilience?
4:25–10:01
3
What were the pivotal moments in Maye’s career transition from dietetics to modeling and entrepreneurship?
10:01–16:50
4
Why did Maye choose to be completely honest about the abuse she endured in her marriage?
16:50–22:38
5
How did Maye raise three successful children, especially Elon, and what parenting lessons does she share?
22:38–28:15
6
What is Maye’s daily social‑media routine and how does she use AI tools like Grok for her work?
28:15–34:19
7
What advice does Maye give about reinventing yourself later in life and dealing with age‑related challenges?
34:19–38:44
8
What are Maye’s favorite untold stories about Elon and her own future projects?
38:44–43:46
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