Hello, world.

Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love, number 484.

I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.

Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has

discovered her talents to do work she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

We created this podcast to provide you with the insights, strategies, and tools to propel your

career to the next level.

A former straight-A student wanted to go to Harvard, Susan found herself in a crack house

where she'd been for four days. I had a moment of clarity when I saw who and where I was.

I knew if I didn't get out of there right then, that's all I was ever going to be.

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Susan Pierce Thompson.

Welcome, Susan.

Thank you, Donna. It's great to be here.

Susan, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

I am. I sure am.

All right. Well, we want to hear the whole story.

Susan Pierce Thompson, Ph.D, is a psychology professor, a brain and cognitive scientist, and an expert in the psychology of

eating. She is president of the Institute for Sustainable Weight Loss and CEO of Brightline

Eating Solutions, a company dedicated to helping people achieve long-term sustainable

weight loss. Her program utilizes cutting-edge research to explain how the brain blocks weight

loss, and every day she teaches people how to undo that damage so they can live happy, thin,

and free. Susan, that's a summary of your career. Tell our listeners around the world what you're engaged in now that has you excited. Well, my book is coming out soon here. Bright Line Eating, The Science of Living, Happy, Thin, and Free. And I've been working hard toward this moment for over three years. And so I'm... Congratulations. That's wonderful. Thank you. It's my first book. I'm going to pray to hope to make it a New York Times bestseller, working hard on that now, a bunch of pre-sales and stuff. And so I've got a content, I've got a pretty big tribe now. I worked hard to build a readership before the book came out. And so some 450,000 people have joined my email list in the last two and a half years. That's no small list.

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