Replay: Cheryl Strayed shares Five Things She's Learned about Nurturing Your Artistic Life (While Keeping the Almighty List)
Check out the first five minutes of her recent class.
"We’re not here to dispense bromides. We’re storytellers who want to share our own struggles and insights as a way of helping others navigate their own."
– Cheryl Strayed, Five Things I’ve Learned about Nurturing Your Artistic Life (While Keeping the Almighty List)
Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film and documents her solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail and the transformative experiences she encountered during her journey.
Cheryl has authored other notable works, including Tiny Beautiful Things, a collection of advice columns offering compassionate insights to readers facing life's challenges. These have inspired an adaptations as a television show on Hulu as well as a widely staged play. Her critically acclaimed novel, Torch, and the bestselling collection Brave Enough, bring together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes. Her books have resonated with readers worldwide, selling over five million copies and being translated into forty languages.
Her impact extends beyond the written word. Cheryl’s award-winning essays and short stories have been featured in respected publications such as The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, and Vogue. She has also made a mark in the podcasting realm, co-hosting the popular podcast Dear Sugars with Steve Almond and hosting the podcast Sugar Calling. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Cheryl’s session, Five Things She's Learned about Nurturing Your Artistic Life (While Keeping the Almighty List) is the final one in our new, live four-part series, Five Things I've Learned about How to Balance a Creative Life with a Family Life. Talking with Steve Almond, Cheryl offers a candid examination of the challenges writers face when trying to balance a creative life with their personal responsibilities. Calling on her own experiences, she provides insights into the collective challenges of creating boundaries, maintaining a serious writing practice, and nurturing her creative life. She shares the strategies she's discovered for balancing it all, and she also explains the ever-present necessity of keeping track of life's continuing commitments with what she simply calls "The List."
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