burning questions with gwen bell: social media + infinite love

Gwen Bell is a yoga-teaching, social media Swami Girl (she was named one of the 50 Most Powerful and Influential Women in Social Media,) with a heart a big as the World Wide Web. Infectious. Savvy. And sought after for her perspective on trends in Web 2.0, Twitter (where she met her husband!), wellness, and women who virtually rock. Gwen is a partner in Kirtsy, and a mean personal manifesto mistress. And! she co-created one the most useful e-experiences ever: The Unconventional Guide to the Social Web, Gwen Bell & Chris Guillebeau Click here to view more details.

It's an honour to have her grace this space.

1. What do you know to be true, unquestionably beyond doubt, certain with every cell of your being, completely, passionately, righteously certain?

We will suffer and we will die. Our work is to do our work - to be completely present - while we have the power in us to breathe, to feel our hearts beating.

2. What was the dumbest thing that you used to believe in?

Love is finite.

3. What’s your super hero name? (You have one. To discover it, stand with your legs apart and hands on your hips, tits up and eyes to the sky. It’ll come to you. FYI, Mine is Agent Now, which in French translates to L’Agent Maintenent. Adorable n'est pas?)

An image comes to mind. Uma Thurman kicking ass in Kill Bill. I'm a Post-modern Samurai She-ro.

4. What is your favorite question?

It's the last day of the year. Reflecting on it, what do you say about your year?

5. Who would you nominate for a Nobel Prize?

Thich Nhat Hanh. He has already been nominated. By Dr. Martin Luther King. I would nominate him again. The meditation retreat I did with him radically changed the course of my life.

6. What book(s) are you always telling people to read?

Refuse to Choose, by Barbara Sher
Happiness, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Clearing Your Clutter with Feng Shui, by Barbara Kingston
Fortunes, by Jen Lee http://www.jenlee.net/
Anything by Sark
The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael E Gerber
The Anti 9-5 Guide, by Michelle Goodman http://www.anti9to5guide.com/
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chimera, by John Barth
Anything by Alan Watts

(Too many to name, I used to work in a book store and spent every paycheck the day paychecks came in. Seriously. Too many to name.)

7. I’m going to give you a word. Tell me what the first thing that comes to mind when you read it... Ready? The word is: DEVOTION.

Forehead on my yoga mat, hands in prayer position, offering it all up.

Om shanti sister Gwen. Ommmmmm shanti.

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The Unconventional Guide to the Social Web, Gwen Bell & Chris Guillebeau Click here to view more details. This is more than an "e-book." This is a robust, ridiculously useful gotta-have guide that blows others of it's ilk out of the water. And, oh yeah, there's a really fun interview with Gwen and me about authenticity and branding. If you're doing anything on-line, go buy this guide...and pretty much anything else Chris Guillebeau creates.