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Podcast: Room to Grow Podcast with Emily Gough
Episode: Filling the Cracks with Gold: The Flaws Make You Stronger
Description: I was in Newport Beach in California a few days ago, and while walking along the boardwalk I met a woman when I stopped to pat her golden retriever, and we were talking about travelling and various life experiences. She reminded me of an old Japanese proverb I'd once heard about and forgotten, about how when a piece of pottery breaks, the Japanese fill the cracks with gold because it was believed that it only made the piece stronger, not to mention more beautiful and valuable. This practice is actually called kintsugi, loosely translated as "golden joinery"