Do you need inspiration to heal, recover, and move forward from a troubled past? Are you looking to channel your creativity and find a way to tell YOUR STORY?
You don’t want to miss my conversation with Rachel Resnick, a writer with an incredible background and an amazing perspective on the topic of STORY. Rachel loves writing, but maybe even more, she loves teaching others to write and connect.
I met Rachel through Ali Brown’s Elevate business coaching program, and I knew immediately that she was the one to help me create my book, Get Gutsy. What a powerful experience it was to give birth to MY STORY with Rachel’s expert help! She would NOT let me shrink back from bringing my truth to the page. At times I hated her! But it was because of her fierceness and love for my work that Get Gutsy became all it could be.
And that book COMPLETELY gave way to this very podcast of the same name. What a wild, wonderful ride, right?!
I count Rachel as an important mentor in my life, and that’s why she’s featured on Get Gutsy during Bring the Heat Week. Join us to learn more about telling your story, going THERE, and leaving no stone unturned.
About Our Guest:
Rachel Resnick, Literary Alchemist + Book Wrangler, is a working writer and a devoted mentor whose exuberance informs all of our Writers On Fire community of fiery scribes. We believe in the power of the written word, and the strength of community. We believe the more we access our own true voices and share our stories, the more human and connected we will be worldwide.
LA Times Bestselling Author, Rachel Resnick, wrote Love Junkie: A Memoir (Bloomsbury), and Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick: A Novel of Separation (St. Martin’s). Her essays, articles and fiction have appeared in nearly a dozen anthologies, most recently Men Undressed: Women Writers on the Male Sexual Experience, What Was I Thinking? 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories, and many more magazines, newspapers and literary journals including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Marie Claire, Women’s Health, BlackBook, Tin House and more.
Highlights of this episode:
- Flashback to age 4, on the streets of NYC: “I WILL write about this someday!”
- Growing up in a world filled with story
- Survival and imagination to get through a difficult childhood
- The geography of Adaptability personified: emotional eating, moving from family to family
- The power of micro-moments of connections with strangers
- Writing: the best way of expressing and channeling
- A tombstone for Mother
- Rachel’s path to Yale, motivated by a mentor
- Death and Loss: Great motivators to TAKE ACTION!
- The evolution of her books and failed relationships
- Teaching others how to draw their stories OUT
- Merging creativity with providing value and self-worth
- What it means to “sit in the story”
- The transforming power in telling our stories
- Why story SHOULD have a polarizing effect
- Memoir: made of emotional engagement, entertainment, and experience
- The gutsiest move Rachel has ever made? “I’m always looking to add urgency, so I can be alive and keep growing. I recently had to move from the place I loved and had lived for 18 years. Part of being gutsy is avoiding falling into victim.”
Links you’ll love:
- www.writersonfire.com
- www.writersonfire.com/omm (Take Rachel’s hour-long audio training to get a taste of unlocking a story!)
- Periscope!
- Go West Young F*cked-Up Chick by Rachel Resnick
- Love Junkie by Rachel Resnick
Enjoy!
xoxo
Jenny
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