Choosing Love Over Work: Erika Napoletano

选择爱情而不是工作:埃里卡·纳波莱塔诺

Good Life Project

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2016-02-08

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Imagine you're an actor. You work your entire life to generate a magic moment. A call, offering you the role that could open the door to your dreams. But, there is a cost. The gig will require you to cancel the trip of a lifetime with the one person in the world who leaves you breathless. And, on a deeper level, it represents a choice you've vowed not to make, picking craft over love. What would you do? That's the choice this week's guest, Erika Napoletano grappled with just days before we sat down to record this week's conversation. And, in many ways, it's a choice she and many of us have been forced to answer many times over the course of our lives. This is actually the second time Erika has been on the show. We first sat down a few years back in Boulder, Colorado, where she was deep into her writing career. Since that time, her world has changed in profound ways. Now in Chicago, with a deep focus on speaking and acting, I was curious about this evolution, so I when I heard she'd be passing through New York, I invited her to take me deeper into her transformation. And, as is her style, Erika got very real, very fast. We explore Erika’s climb from the darkest of depths of suffering and loss to rediscovery joy, returning to her long-held passion for acting, becoming an award-winning author, acclaimed speaker, TedX Editor’s Pick 2012, columnist for both American Express OPEN Forum and Entrepreneur Magazine. We also talk about what it means to live a messy, truthful life, the power of establishing sacred commitments, and why the biggest risk you’ll ever take is simply not taking one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • What lights me up is sitting on a plane next to this man that I love so incredibly and looking over and knowing he's there and he's doing this with me.

  • That's what makes passing on all that stuff worthwhile.

  • I can't get that back.

  • If I pass on that, I'm not going to feel like this on the set of something that I took, because I should.

  • Today's guest, Erica Napolitano, is we had a lot of fun with.

  • She, I believe, may be the first guest that we've brought back.

  • We sat down a bunch of years back when we were just starting good life project as a video project and filmed a conversation in Boulder, Colorado, which was awesome.

  • And we had a really good time.

  • And she's wise, funny, snarky.

  • She does not filter or hold back.

  • Just letting you know that in advance, and that's a really good thing.

  • We talk about her extraordinary journey through really kind of learning, stumbling upon the things that lit her up early in life and traversing a lot of different careers and paths and moving away from it until a series of incidents kind of slowly started to bring her back.

  • And then we really dive into what matters and some of the very profound choices that she's making now.

  • And in fact, a huge no that she just said to what she would have perceived as the opportunity of a lifetime in the name of honoring the sacred in her life.

  • So really excited to share that journey and her story with you.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.

  • It's good to be hanging out with you.

  • Yeah, I'm delighted to see you.

  • We were just talking about before we started recording that we were hanging out last time.

  • So you're one of.