2020-04-23
1 小时 4 分钟My guest today, Jennifer Loudon, is a personal growth pioneer who kind of helped launch the concept of self care with her bestseller, the Woman's comfort book.
Since then, she has written seven additional books on well being, whole living, including the Woman's Retreat book and the Life Organizer, with close to a million copies of books in print in nine languages.
She also leads retreats and workshops internationally, has written fur many different places, including Martha Stewart magazine, been profiled all over the place, included in two Brene Brown's books, appeared in hundreds of tv and radio shows, even on Oprah, which we talk about because there's a really interesting and unexpected twist on that.
And now she is in this moment of her life where she's kind of being called to re examine who she is, to reimagine the life that she wants to craft after some major disruptions and changes, and ask the question, at this point in life, why bother?
That, in fact, is the title of her new book, why Bother?
Discover the desire for what's next.
And we touched down on so many pivotal moments and awakenings in this wide ranging and moving conversation.
Cannot wait to share it with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
Did you have any sense for what lit you up when you were younger?
I always wanted to make stuff.
I always wrote, I made films, I wrote a plays.
I was always making stuff.
Yeah.
From a very early age.
So were you aware of the fact that that was your jam from an early age?
I don't think, you know, when I.
It's hard to go back, because now we think so much about what's our purpose and, you know, what's our.
Where did we come from?
But I don't think there was ever anything else for me that I always wanted to create stuff.