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The goop Pursuit: Finding Beauty

By: Jodie Patterson
Narrated by: Jodie Patterson
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From Gwyneth Paltrow’s modern lifestyle brand goop comes the Audible Original The goop Pursuit, a four-part audio series taking listeners on an intimate journey of learning and unlearning.

“Finding Beauty”

Author, LGBTQIA+ activist, and beauty maven Jodie Patterson explores capital-“B” Beauty through intimate interviews with her personal "collage of women"— dynamic friends, mentors, and public figures from whom she draws inspiration and confidence. Patterson shares her own relationship to beauty— how she redefined her understanding and belief in beauty, and what drew her back to the transformative power it holds for all of us today.

This episode contains mature themes and listener discretion is advised.

©2023 Goop (P)2023 Audible Originals, LLC
About the Host - Jodie Patterson

About the Host

Jodie Patterson is an award-winning author, speaker, advocate, and entrepreneur. In 2019, she became the first Black person elected to the role of Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, America’s largest LGBT organization, with more than forty years of experience advocating for the rights of this community.
Jodie’s first book, The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation, was hailed by Alice Walker as “marvelous,” and since its publication in 2017, Jodie has spoken weekly on topics of identity, gender, race, and beauty, and how they play out in family dynamics. In 2021, she published her second book, Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope, which won several awards and was gifted to all public schools in the state of Kansas. The picture book was inspired by Jodie’s child’s pronouncement at the age of three, “Mama, I’m not a girl, I am a boy,” as well as Jodie’s transformation into an unapologetic LGBTQIA+ advocate.
In addition to her advocacy work, Jodie is a longtime entrepreneur. She currently co-owns Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the acclaimed venue she helped co-found in the late ‘90s. She also co-founded two beauty brands focused on women of color. Before entering the beauty industry, Jodie served as Director of PR for fashion designer Zac Posen and was the Fashion Director of Sales for Vibe magazine. She also ran her own boutique PR agency, working closely with formidable brands like Nike, Virgin Records, Sean John, and Lincoln Center.
Jodie lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she co-parents her five children with love, education, and family solidarity.

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Discourse into, under, over, and through Beauty

A warm intimate Discourse into, under, over, and through Beauty. Beautiful, Informative, smart and Affirming.

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So many lessons

This is a talk which will get you thinking about everything in your life and how we as a society need to change.

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Great message, subpar delivery

I totally love the concept of beauty, empowerment, love and kindness to ourselves. I struggled to stay engaged with this one.

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Boring and shallow

I expected more I guess. Interviews are very surface level and there is no deeper discourse about what and why beauty is.

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Not for me

I don't know about you, but I leave star reviews to remind myself which authors and narrators I do and don't like. I don't like being compelled by audible to write a text review in order to leave a star review. I hope they fix this soon.

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Who’s beauty?

There should be a wider variety of who’s beauty we are talking about. What about tween’s idea of beauty? What about 50, 60, 70+ year olds experience of beauty?










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