Courageous Passion :: SARK!

SARK-short-interview from Kate Swoboda on Vimeo.

So here’s what’s really trippy about doing what I do now–years ago, I was reading books written by SARK (remember when I wrote about eating mangoes?) and at that time, I never would have imagined in a million years that one day, I’d be interviewing her about her latest book after having started my own business.

Trippy, yeah? I hope this little tidbit inspires you to wonder: What might I think, currently, is something I could never do in a million years…that I might actually find myself doing in the future?

It was an honor to interview someone I’ve admired! I joined up with her at a Cafe Gratitude in San Rafael the night before our interview, and watched as a crew of people who love her showed up to share in the wisdom. It was a fun night, complete with SARK singing Amazing Grace to the cafe (it was part of a story, which is in her latest book, Glad No Matter What).

The next day, we had a phone interview (which I’m including as part of Courageous Passion), in which I was burning to know her take on this question: What do you do about the backlash that can happen when people start to get happy? I personally spent many years of my life feeling stuck in a sort of ongoing depression/anhedonia, and then when I finally had climbed out of this sort of a place, I was astonished to realize how much snarck there was around happiness. What had I been doing all of these years, trying to get to a place where I was happy…if only to find there was a whole other crew of people who were “too cool” to be happy, to risk being Glad No Matter What?

I appreciated her answer–a powerful declaration of stepping into who she is and claiming her life, which is such an essential part of Courageous Living–and I wanted to share a clip of our interview, here. I hope you enjoy it, and enjoy Glad No Matter What!

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The interview goodness continues. This week I was interviewed by Annie over at I’m Contagious on being a happiness advocate, as well as by Jen Louden over at the Comfort Cafe. If you’re looking for content for you site, I’m scheduling a host of phone interviews, Skype interviews using video, and email interviews (you send the questions, I share some answers). To learn more, click here.

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