#112. Get Comfortable with Grief: Marisa Renee Lee on speaking publicly about the personal

Marisa Renee Lee is a speaker, an entrepreneur, an author and “grief advocate.”  Having lost her mom to breast cancer and struggled with infertility, Lee has alchemized her experiences into a NYT Bestselling book, Grief is Love: Living with Loss. Marisa joins us to share how she presents and speaks on such vulnerable topics, how grief can show up at work and how you can support colleagues experiencing grief.  In sharing her personal stories and experiences, Marisa is helping to break the stigma around these heavy subjects and offers new ways to approach grief in both work and life. This is an episode for: aspiring speakers, writers and anyone that is dealing with grief. What's in the Spice Cabinet?? Want more of Marisa’s work? (Or hire her as a speaker?) Check out her site, here.  Follow Marisa on LinkedIn & Instagram—she’s got something in the works with Al Roker… Gift a loved one (or yourself) going through grief her book: Grief is Love: Living with Loss One of Marisa’s favorite speakers? Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone and writer of Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence (among other books) Other inspiration? Poetry! Specifically the Sufi poet, Hafiz. Read their collection of poems, The Gift  Maggie Smith’s writing—no, not Dame Maggie Smith Marisa’s walkout song?  She’ll get back to you ;) Parting words of advice for Presentation Nation? “My biggest piece of advice is to keep at it and just do the thing. You know, don't get distracted by imposter syndrome or feeling like it's too late or comparison. You know, don't get lost on social media looking at all of these people who've accomplished things that you haven't done yet that you want to do. Instead just focus on doing the damn thing. Like just ignore the noise.”