2019-06-20
1 小时 14 分钟In her early thirties, my guest this week, Ashley Seaford, has done something that most writers dream of doing but never do.
She's reached a point in her career where she is now turning away work, where she is being approached to write, to host, to speak on all sorts of things, where she feels such a fierce sense of conviction and passion for that.
Her decision now has been, what is the thing that most lights me up?
And then she says no to everything else.
That was not always the case.
Ashley grew up in Indiana, ended up going to Ball State, and had to struggle with a lot of personal moments of reckoning, early experiences with the family that really sent her into a spiral and had her questioning her identity, her skills, her abilities, who she was.
And it took some time, some changes in community, a bit of therapy, and finding the love of her life to really start to reconnect the dots and step back into a place of confidence and competence.
And she has done that in an astonishing way.
Now, out there in the world as a writer, a speaker, a media host, and working on a memoir, she is making a huge difference in people's lives as she shares beautifully her own story and invites others in to explore theirs as well.
Super excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project as we're sitting here.
You're just back from south by Southwest, right?
I am.
Oh, that's awesome.
Were you there primarily with Buzzfeed during the profile show, or was it other stuff, too?
Yes.
Yeah.
During this, it was primarily with Buzzfeed doing profile.
That was the primary focus of the trip.
And I'm glad because I got to go during a really interesting time, which is when they're doing a lot of work around film, and there are a lot of film premieres.