This is, after all, living daily episode. Seven hundred and fifty five, sometimes you have to quit by christian work, of the wild, long dot com and I'm just a molecule personal narrator, most of the time green to everyday, including holidays, but not this week, because I'm doing a little something special in having guess narrators come on and do my job. I tell you about it. I guess narrator in a second first thank you to force Magic for keeping the show alive for signature Is mushroom coffee Super food law and send mushroom elixir, is how different kinds of mushrooms have different health benefits. So forcing Matic is created these easy to consume. Tc drinks anemia fifteen per and off your order. By using my code, oil d, the link is forcing pneumatic dot com, slash old, that's f, o! U r s side! I am a. I see: dot com, slash oil and outside it linked in this episode description. So today's guess narrator

Kristen long who I got me. A thin car in a couple of months ago, actually there's over the next two days were all others that I got to meet their part of the reason. Why pick them and she has a book coming out doesn't check it out online she's, an amazing freelance writer and I'm looking forward to it is called get. Money is available for pre order and coming out in March, but for tat, If he's gonna marry one of her new articles on her sight, so get right to it as we are demise, your life-

junior year in high school, a friend suggested I joined the newspaper I love to write. I was kind of a weirdo and our high schools journalism class, embraced both of those things you couldn't just decide to be a high school journalist, though you had to apply so I wrote the teacher and editor in chief, a letter sent them some writing clips and they got the job. If I wanted it, I could be a rapporteur for the badge. There was just one problem. I already had too many elective, so one of them had to go. I decided to ditch the one I found most boring. Ironically, that was drama drama. Just wasn't for me. I hated performing. I wasn't great at and they only continue to do it because up until then, I didn't know what else to do. I was nervous to ask our drama teacher, who was notoriously already kind of an to sign my drop form

I knew you would rise me about it, but the lack of punch as he pulls was pretty astounding. He sign the paper he did at me without making eye contact and said I always knew you were a quitter. It felt strange should be given this label. Quitter was not a trait I'd ever considered for myself, I was in the soccer team or was forced to keep running when my legs felt like jelly. I made good grades because I force myself to stay up and study, even though.

Tired, I hadn't after school job, because my parents told me if I wanted to drive their car. I'd have to pay for my own insurance and gas with all of that going on. I would now have to squeeze in writing for the newspaper, but no, I was a quarter. I took the drop form and walked away wondering if I should just stay and drama until the journalism grew. I couldn't except supposition. Thankfully, a good friend and fellow Highschool journalist gave me some sage advice. Don't listen to that guy. He said I took the advice and spent my junior year chasing stories interviewing subjects. Designing pages writing essays. Journalism was the best thing I ever did in high school. The first time I felt fulfilled and the four

Each time I felt a sense of belonging still, the drama classroom was right next to the journalism classroom and every time I passed by, I was reminded of that shameful title. Quitter was a strange badge to wear, but it was worth it defined. My passion, no one wants to be a quitter because we equate quitting with failure, but, ironically, a fear of quit can get in the way of success if the only reason you're doing something is that you're afraid to quit? It's probably time to stop doing that thing. It was a curl sing for my drama teacher to say to a sixteen year old, not just because it was petty and mean, but because it stuck with me for far too long and seriously got in the way of my success at twenty five, I was a technical writer. I knew I wanted to switch careers and pursue a more creative kind of writing. So I moved to LOS Angeles to be a screenwriter, because that seemed fallen seemed like something I would enjoy for awhile.

I did it and I made money at it within a year. I started writing for an entertainment news show and while the pay wasn't great, it was cool to see my name squirrel through the writing credits. On tv, I wrote a web series for Fox Digital in the paper Better a year later I gotta gig scripting and producing an online series and the pay was stellar. Meanwhile, I wrote in performed for free at a price listens brigade and I owe West because that's what you're supposed to do, if you want to make it and the entertainment industry, I was grateful to make some headway, so I felt like a whole complaining about the work incessantly to my family. The truth was, I did not enjoy dissecting comedy with a team of writers. I hear, in performing and I hated the sketches I wrote even when they got laughs when I had to sit down and write a script, I dreaded it. Other writers, comedians and performers around me really enjoyed this industry. They rocket

and I could tell they belong dear and they would do big things some day by comparison. I should have known this was not for me. I didn't have the same enthusiasm or drive they did. I really didn't care. If I got better at this or if I sucked at it, it was just a job which is exactly how felt as a technical writer on the side. I started writing essays in articles for websites and blogs and began making headway with that and again, I felt fulfilled when I had to sit down and write an article or essay. I savoured it my sixteen year old dilemma returned. I want to pursue this new thing I felt passionate about, but this time I did at heed the advice, I did not immediately give up my old elected for a new one. I always knew you were a quitter, Go to my head and I worried about what my screenwriter friends would think. If I gave up, I worried what my family and friends back home would think too

never mind that I actually enjoyed writing articles for media outlets. I couldn't let go of the fear of someone thinking. Kristen gave up and to be a screenwriter and now she rates for the internet. How sad my fear of being stuck with that old quitter label was just too much so for years I tried to do both. I said yes, when life Agro ask me to launch a blog for them, but I also pitched web series ideas to companies. I was excited when NBC News hired me to write stories for them, but I also took on a script writing gig with another big media company. I felt unsure of myself distracted and

fused in two thousand and fifteen. I got tired of not feeling like myself for a handful of reasons. I constantly felt like I had no sense of identity, but mostly the problem was that I prioritized other people's thoughts, opinions and feelings over my own. So I made a plan. I stop saying yes to things out of obligation and started saying no to things I didn't have to do and didn't want to do. I dropped the screen. Writing class. I forced myself to take. I said no one another client approached me to write online scripts for them. Then I had a realization. I would rather be

happy as a success in my own eyes than be miserable as a success in someone else's. In other words, I stopped carrying what everyone around me might think, and I quit thing about passion. Is it's not something you're born with, and it's not some fixed concept that doesn't change like most things in life, passion is more fluid more new ones. Damn that passion is something you discover as you explore new Hobbes and say yes to new experiences and opportunities. Sure you can try to do all the things, even the ones you're, not that passionate about, but that can also just distract you from discovering what it is. You truly love and enjoy remember season, one of true detective. It was great and there is an incredible line that hit me in the gut life's, barely long enough to get good at one thing. So

careful what you get good at now. That's good screen! Writing it's the kind of writing that comes from being passionate about what you do. That line has stuck with me as a mantra. It reminds me that sometimes you have to make tough decisions. Sometimes you have to make room the things you truly enjoy and give up what other people might think about that. Sometimes you have to quit. You just said- to the post titled. Sometimes you have to quit by Christa Moi the wild wound dot com. This is only I definitely relate to before. I talk about that. Thank you again to force a magic for sponsoring this episode, so forcing Matic they found out about the show reached out. And I said I don't like eating mushrooms and I don't drink coffee, so does only makes sense for me to talk about it, but I d say what the heck and I tried it. I tried their heart, a cow. I try. Their luck serves their coffee.

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so back to today's boast. My business partner only and I have had to deal with quitting our first ensure around six years ago was a mobile app, start eating more money than we anticipated not making enough to be sustainable. So we had a the plug on that. But we do a time and were able to turn things around completely now he sold. Moved away from apps into these podcast, which has been our most success. I venture to date, and by far the most fulfilling this most important part somehow canary this one for you, and hopefully you got a lot of it- may reach out her book again money is coming out in March, but is available for priority come by the wild, long dot com for more info that should do afford today Gimme a great day and I'll be back tomorrow with a book excerpt, narrow, by the author and someone

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