#820: Elizabeth Gilbert — How to Find Your Inner Voice, Set Strong Boundaries, and Live a Life of Radical Ease (Repost)

Hello, boys and girls. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to interview people from all different disciplines, all different walks of life to tease out the habits, routines, thoughts, lessons learned, and so on that you can apply to your own lives. My guest today, one of my favorites, Elizabeth Gilbert. She is the number one New York Times best selling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love as well as several other international bestsellers. She's been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PENHemingway Award. Her latest novel, City of Girls, was named an instant New York Times bestseller, a rollicking sexy tale of the New York City theater world during the nineteen forties. You can go to elizabethgilbert.substack.com to subscribe to Letters from Love with Elizabeth Gilbert, her newsletter, which has more than 120,000 subscribers. You can find her on Instagram at elizabeth underscore gilbert underscore writer. But first, a few quick words from our lovely podcast sponsors who make products and services that I use every day or every week. I personally vet everything. And that means that probably less than 20% of the podcast sponsors who wish to sponsor the show end up sponsoring. But I'm fine with that, and here are the few that made the cut. In the last handful of years, I've become very interested in environmental toxins, avoiding microplastics, and many other commonly found compounds all over the place. One place I looked is in the kitchen. Many people don't realize just how toxic their cookware is or can be. A lot of nonstick pans, practically all of them, can release harmful forever chemicals, PFAS, in other words, spelled p f a s, into your food, your home, and then ultimately, that ends up in your body. Teflon is a prime example of this. It is still the forever chemical that most companies are using. So Our Place reached out to me as a potential sponsor. And the first thing I did was look at the reviews of their products and said, send me one, and that is the Titanium Always Pan Pro. And the claim is that it's the first nonstick pan with zero coating. So that means zero forever chemicals and durability that'll last forever. I was very skeptical. I was very busy. So I said, you know what? I wanna test this thing quickly. It's supposed to be nonstick. It's supposed to be durable. I'm gonna test it with two things. I'm gonna test it with scrambled eggs in the morning, because eggs are always a disaster in anything that isn't nonstick with the toxic coating. And then I'm gonna test it with a steak sear, because I wanna see how much it retains heat. And it worked perfectly in both cases, and I was frankly astonished how well it worked. The Titanium Always Pan Pro has become …