Casey Gerald: There Will Be No Miracles Here.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
On the surface, Casey Gerald (http://www.caseygerald.com/), was living the dream.
Growing up in Oak Cliff, Texas, he broke from the binds of an addicted, imprisoned dad and mentally-ill mom to become a star athlete, scholar, then a student at Yale, where he majored in political science and played varsity football.
Heading next to Harvard Business School, while pursuing his MBA, he co-founded a foundation, MBAs Across America, that landed him on MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, on the cover of Fast Company, and in The New York Times, Financial Times, and The Guardian, among others.
But, when you scratch the surface, things weren't as they seemed. As he shared in this week's conversation, everyone wants to make you into a nugget, a simplified soundbite. Gerald was anything but. Struggling with everything from his sexuality and faith, to his fierce desire to carve his own unique path, to live his own life, Casey, decided to walk away from it all, begin to write, and follow a path of self-discovery and revelation. His journey is laid bare in a stirring new memoir, There Will Be No Miracles Here (https://amzn.to/2QHjyvE)
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| 0:00.0 | Growing up in O'Kale, a suburb of Dallas, Texas in the late 80s and 90s, my guest today, |
| 0:08.8 | Casey Gerald, was the son of a local football star who eventually ended up having problems |
| 0:15.3 | with addiction, a mom who was incredibly present and alive and vibrant in Casey's life, |
| 0:21.6 | and also struggled deeply with mental illness. |
| 0:25.4 | The grandson of a one-time pastor who founded a very large and revered church through |
| 0:32.2 | his own exploration of all of these different relationships, he awakened to a lot of truth |
| 0:37.4 | about himself. |
| 0:38.4 | Part of it came to a head when he turned 12 years old when on December 31, 1999, at |
| 0:44.4 | exactly midnight, something that he was told would happen didn't happen. |
| 0:49.7 | And he's kind of been reckoning with that. |
| 0:51.5 | That said, I'm on a journey that eventually led him to find his way in the world, attend |
| 0:56.0 | Yale, Harvard, go out into the world, do big things in business, start a nonprofit. |
| 1:00.2 | And one day he realized that this dream that he was living, both for himself and for others, |
| 1:06.3 | was not in fact what he wanted out of his life. |
| 1:09.5 | And he started to question everything and re-explore his most fundamental assumptions about |
| 1:14.9 | why we're here and what this thing called life is really all about. |
| 1:20.6 | That is laid bare any beautiful new memoir called There Will Be No Miracles Here. |
| 1:27.0 | Really excited to share this conversation with Casey Gerald. |
| 1:30.2 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
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