1KHO 297: I Don't Want to Go Out With a Life That's Half Lived | Sean Dietrich, Sean of the South

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Sean of the South is here!!!!!!!!!! This is one of my very favorite conversations. Sean's writing it SO touching and memorable. Sean recorded this one OUTSIDE with some beautiful scenery behind him so enjoy the sound of the birds and the wind :). Join us as Sean opens up about his tumultuous past, including the long-lasting impact of his father's tragic death by suicide and the complexity it added to his formative years. Despite dropping out of school in the seventh grade and facing rejection from a prestigious writing program, Sean's determination led him to create the Sean of the South blog, a turning point in his life and career. Writing became his sanctuary, allowing him to process his experiences and connect with others. During the pandemic, a significant health scare pushed Sean and his wife Jamie to live differently, biking across four states on a tricycle and rediscovering the beauty of simplicity and the importance of disconnecting from technology. Reminiscing about a time when bicycles filled neighborhoods, Sean expresses a longing for the simplicity and connection of his youth, wishing today’s children could experience the same. Emphasizing the importance of truly living rather than merely existing, Sean speaks about the concept of 'Trail Magic' and the belief that everything happens for a reason. In a touching moment, Sean reflects on how the burdens of the past become treasured in later life, he even whistles for us, a poignant reminder of finding joy in simple acts! This episode is a testament to the power of storytelling and the profound impact of embracing one's past to shape a better future. ** Purchase your copy of You are My Sunshine here >> https://amzn.to/3VyICVX Learn more about Sean here >> https://seandietrich.com/ Read Dearest Brother here >> https://seandietrich.com/dearest-brother/ See Sean perform live! Learn more here >> https://seanofthesouthshow.com/ ** Download your free 1000 Hours Outside tracker here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/trackers Find everything you need to kick off your 1000 Hours Outside Journey here >> https://www.1000hoursoutside.com/blog/allthethings Order of copy of Ginny's newest book, Until the Streetlights Come On here >> https://amzn.to/3RXjBlN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, are you ready? I'm ready.
0:03.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Jenny Hurich, I'm the founder of 1,000 hours outside.
0:08.0	And I'm super excited. I just read an amazing book and also, like I just did a deep dive this morning and
0:14.2	Sean Diedrich welcome well thanks for having it's pleasure to be here also
0:19.6	known as Sean of the South. Sean I was like hopping on your website this morning
0:24.1	and I usually like it's my last thing.
0:26.4	You know like I'll flip on the website is there anything you know I need to
0:29.2	know last minute and I was like oh there's a lot of gold here. So this is incredible.
0:37.8	John Dietrich.com and Sean of the South show if you want to come see you live, but you have got all sorts of things going on.
0:45.2	You're a novelist, a columnist, a columnist, a musician, a whistler, you've done construction work, you've written a whole bunch of books.
0:55.0	We don't even know how many.
0:56.5	We're saying probably more than 14.
0:58.0	The one I just read is, You are My Sunshine,
1:00.0	a story of Love Promises and a really long bike ride, you come from a hard past.
1:05.0	Yeah, yeah. That probably as far as being a rider goes is the greatest roundabout gift to me because a past gives you a lot of
1:17.1	credibility that you don't really have otherwise and secondly it gives you a lot of material to draw from
1:24.3	and if you're going to write from the heart you know.
1:26.8	Yeah. I was it was a rough way of grown up and I
1:30.4	despised it for a long time but then when I began to write and heal a little bit more
1:34.8	I realized what a gift it was to me. It was my credibility. The only way that I could
1:40.4	write about something heartfelt and get away with it and say things from my core
1:46.0	was to have this credibility of having a hard life beforehand.
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