In this episode we have bestselling author and screenwriter Cheryl Strayed offering us her wisdom on the unediting & vulnerability that is needed to share the truth. I asked some questions I have also been grappling with as a writer and loved learning how Cheryl navigates writing about close relationships in her life. Cheryl speaks to us about the current writer strike happening in Hollywood, how she learned that writing can also be art and healing/cathartic in the same space and the brilliance of truth being more fascinating than fiction. We speak about keeping her mothers memory alive, allow women to experience grief, the art of advice giving and holding the vastness of our emotions in this current human experience.

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, which has sold more than four million copies worldwide and was made into an Oscar-nominated major motion picture. Tiny Beautiful Things was adapted as a play that has been staged in theaters across the country and as a Hulu television series airing in 2023. Cheryl is also the author of Brave Enough, which brings together more than one hundred of her inspiring quotes, and the debut novel Torch. She has hosted two hit podcasts, Sugar Calling and Dear Sugars. She lives in Portland, Oregon.