When I think about my guest this week, I think about somebody who maybe has been told, you have changed my life so many times, I'm guessing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of times over the course of the last few decades.
Julia Cameron wrote a book called the Artist's Way, which has sold millions and millions and millions of copies.
It has planted the seed of this thing in the world of anyone who has a creative bone in their body called Morning pages, which is an incredibly powerful tool to get unstuck or unblocked.
She has been teaching around the world for decades, writing.
She's written dozens of books, screenplays, plays, musicals, astonishingly prolific in every part of her life.
And she has made such a profound difference in so many people's lives, many of the people who have created the work that have changed our lives.
So the ripple effect is really incredible.
When I sat down with Julia, we were actually in her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the conversation really was much more focused on the.
On her personal story, on her life, on what it was like to come up in her family, to find her way and navigate her way.
Very young in the world of creativity and writing.
She found herself in her twenties, married briefly to Martin Scorsese.
We talk about that window of time and also found herself in a deeply addicted window of her life that would affect her in a lot of profound ways.
And we talked about that and how she sort of found her way out of it and back into the world of being an incredibly productive, kind, generous creator, writer, teacher, mentor to so many different people.
It was such a moving and inspiring conversation.
To be able to share some time with her at her home in Santa Fe as she reflected back on this beautiful, wise journey in a very real and vulnerable way was really special for me, and I'm super excited to be able to share it with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
The sound is a little bit different.
We're actually recording this out in Santa Fe.
I'm sitting across from Julia Cameron in her living room around a little small table.
Over to the left is this stunning picture window looking out at the mountains, which is what you wake up to every day and see.