Letting Go of Old Rules and Roles to Step Into Our Own Life with Margaret Ghielmetti

Mar 24, 2022

Listen to the full episode to hear:

• How Margaret’s experiences of being vulnerable in her stage storytelling informed her writing
• Why Margaret had to confront the rules and roles in the “Davis Family Handbook”
• How she learned to let down the mask of the perfect hostess, tour guide, expat and be her authentic self

SE2: SE53 Breaking Through Perfectionism | NOV. 23, 2021

SHOW NOTES:

My guest this week, Margaret Ghielmetti, always dreamed of being a writer. But before she could actually write that book she had to learn to stop trying to be the perfect person she thought everyone wanted her to be. It’s a journey many women are familiar with especially as we enter our menopausal years. In the conversation, Margaret shares how at forty, she quit her sales job to follow her husband’s hotel career across 4 continents She shares her coming to terms with childlessness Conquering her alcoholism, And finally discovering how to go beyond the mentally engrained Davis Family Handbook of Rules to Live By to step into her own life and creative destiny The full journey is outlined in her new book, Brave(ish) A Memoir of a Recovering Perfectionist.

Episode #60 – Breaking Through Perfectionism with Margaret Ghielmetti, author of Brave(ish)
By Amy Isaman | March 25, 2021

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