Julia Baird on Building Resilience and How Grace Can Change Everything

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<p>The fundamental idea of Stoicism is that we cannot control what happens to us (or the ones we love), we can only control how we respond. Julia Baird knows about cultivating this resilience and Stoic response, after losing her mother and battling health issues, and how approaching grief with a sense of grace can transform ourselves and the world around us. While in Sydney, Ryan had the chance to sit down with Julia in-person to discuss what she learned from researching the lives of Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale, and why she was compelled to write about grace for her latest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Shining-Grace-Changes-Everything-ebook/dp/B0CSBQJ6W2?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xb9N1dVXGrnMuSyulY6GbVP-trmeVyAy0sUdBqkRzedzoYdhaqZJ3xxAg6wEkZesOfCx289OL8qOna9SDtcIFvK-DDmRQQgcA9oM05phELl83bPbXs7-ts6s1v5gSzz_2xwBZp3wUgE5uA0bUzd41A.bu8lrua1X8-9OxBDRKgW1wurZ4sX-kuBnRs_t3dTipk&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything</em></a><em>.</em></p><br><p>Julia Baird is an author, broadcaster, and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. Be sure to check out her books, <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/phosphorescence-a-memoir-of-finding-joy-when-your-world-goes-dark?_pos=1&amp;_sid=4cd51be1c&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark</em></a>, <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/biography22?_pos=2&amp;_sid=4cd51be1c&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Victoria: The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire</em></a><em>, </em>and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Shining-Grace-Changes-Everything-ebook/dp/B0CSBQJ6W2?ref_=ast_author_dp&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.xb9N1dVXGrnMuSyulY6GbVP-trmeVyAy0sUdBqkRzedzoYdhaqZJ3xxAg6wEkZesOfCx289OL8qOna9SDtcIFvK-DDmRQQgcA9oM05phELl83bPbXs7-ts6s1v5gSzz_2xwBZp3wUgE5uA0bUzd41A.bu8lrua1X8-9OxBDRKgW1wurZ4sX-kuBnRs_t3dTipk&amp;dib_tag=AUTHOR" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything</em></a><em>.&nbsp;</em></p><br><p>Follow Julia on Instagram @<a href="https://www.instagram.com/juliabaird/?hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">JuliaBaird </a>and on X @<a href="https://x.com/bairdjulia?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BairdJulia&nbsp;</a></p><br><p>📕 Get a signed, numbered first-edition of the 10th Anniversary Edition of <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/obstacle-anniversary/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Obstacle Is the Way</em></a> by Ryan Holiday at <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/pages/obstacle-anniversary/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dailystoic.com/obstacle</a></p><br><p>🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at <a href="http://ryanholiday.net/tour" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ryanholiday.net/tour</a></p><br><p>✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at <a href="https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><br><p>🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://store.dailystoic.com/</a></p><br><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Instagram</a>,<a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Twitter</a>,<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> YouTube</a>,<a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> TikTok</a>, and<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Facebook</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>