Oct 27, 2022
How can I even express the excitement that was bubbling in my
heart and mind before interviewing Rebecca? Not once… But twice!
You’ll have to listen for the total snafu that happened on my end
the first time we recorded. Definitely a lesson of self-forgiveness
on my part.
This episode is one of my favorites because it didn’t feel like an
interview but felt like a zoom call with a really fun and fabulous
girlfriend!
Once you listen to the episode, you will see why I find Rebecca so
inspiring. I was introduced to her on Instagram and simply fell in
love with the chic way she lives, works, dresses, travels, etc… and
especially how she makes alcohol-free living look so beautiful.
Highlights of today’s episode
1. Getting inspired by experimenting with delightful mocktails.
2. The magical way life looks and feels when going
alcohol-free.
3. Why living AF allows you to taste the food, dream the dreams and
wake up feeling fabulous.
Books referenced:
Unto This Last
by Rebecca Lipkin
The Unexpected Joy of Being
Sober by Catherine Gray
Rebecca's Bio:
Rebecca is the author of Unto This Last - the first biographical
novel dedicated to the Victorian art critic, social commentator and
philanthropist, John Ruskin.
Having developed a passion for Victorian art and literature from a
young age, Rebecca first discovered John Ruskin through E.M.
Forster’s novel, A Room with a View, and later joined the Ruskin
Society at the age of seventeen to learn more about Ruskin’s work.
Rebecca says, “Most accounts of John Ruskin’s complex personal life
focus on his brief marriage to Effie Gray, but his seventeen-year
relationship with his young Irish student Rose La Touche was of
much greater importance; theirs is captivating and tragic story of
two people whose loving friendship transcended boundaries and
conventions to the very end.”
London, 1858. Passionate, contradictory, and fiercely loyal to his
friends, John Ruskin is an eccentric genius, famed across Britain
for his writings on art and philosophy. Haunted by a scandalous
past and determined never to love again, the 39-year-old Ruskin
shuns polite society in favour of a quiet existence at Denmark
Hill, the home he shares with his domineering parents. Reluctantly
accepting a request by an Irish aristocrat to tutor her daughters
in art, Ruskin becomes infatuated with his enigmatic student, Rose
La Touche, an obsession with profound consequences that will change
the course of his life and work.
Written in a style recalling Victorian literature and spanning a
period of almost 20 years, the story poses questions about the
nature of love, the boundaries of parenthood and compatibility in
marriage. Unto This Last is a man behind the genius portrait of
Ruskin’s tormented psyche and reveals a complex and misunderstood
soul, longing for a life just out of reach.
Connect with Rebecca:
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See you next week.
Love,
Meg