274: Making Time with Author Maria Bowler
- Diana Varma
- 6 days ago
- 2 min read
I read a book a few months ago called Making Time: A New Vision for Crafting a Life Beyond Productivity. It stirred something up inside of me in the best way possible. I felt like the author, Maria Bowler, was speaking directly to me.
So I reached out to Maria to see if she'd be interested in chatting about her book, and I was thrilled that she said yes. In this conversation, Maria and I dive deep into the world of problematic ideas around productivity, the ways in which these ideas reinforce colonial systems, and how to re-imagine time, questioning the typical options laid out before us.
Specifically, Maria breaks down the core idea within her book, helping to clarify the ways we orient to the world, either as “the producer” or “the maker”. How our thoughts about the “finite” nature of time is flawed and how we can approach time with more clarity, grounded in reality. Maria gifts us with a beautiful new way of defining rest and she shares how balance, shame, control are intertwined in problematic ways.
Before we jump into the conversation, I will admit that I was maximizing my time and being super productive while producing this episode, both listening and clean the house while I edited. The irony is not lost on me.
Anyhoo, let’s listen in…
About Our Guest:
Maria Bowler is a writer, coach, and retreat leader. She holds a masters in religion and the arts from Yale University, is a former magazine editor, and has taught creative writing at the university level. Canadian by birth, she now lives in the Driftless region of the US with her family.
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