049 - Hairspray

Hello, hello, Bettys and Jacks!! Today we’re talking about a different musical. Or movie. Or movie-musical based on a movie. Anyway, we’re talking about Hairspray! Mary saw the Broadway touring company version of it recently, and watched the 2007 movie-musical version (with John Travolta) which is available to stream on Amazon Prime here (Mary and Alexis also talk about tsunamis and the 2014 masterpiece Interstellar).

 

Mary has a few lessons she learned from this story:

1. Some people will try to talk you out of your dreams. Don’t let them.
2. Good things can come from unexpected places. And unexpected events can give you some really great perspective you wouldn’t have otherwise.
3. People want to see people who look like them doing what they want to do (like Jamie Kern Lima, Lizzo, and Winnie Harlow). 
4. We can face the future with either excitement or fear.
5. The time is always right to stand up for what’s right.

 

Our Better Betty Challenge for this week is to be open to the lessons you can find everywhere. Find one lesson that can change you, and let it.

 

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