Christin Taylor on Shipwrecks, Seasons and Writing
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2013
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Christin Taylor is the author of Shipwrecked in L.A.: Finding Purpose in a Life Adrift.
Most people encounter at least one “shipwreck” during their twenties. Everything you think you know about yourself, your life, your future, and even your faith suddenly breaks apart. You’re left scrambling to construct a lifeboat that will take you back to the shore.
Christin Taylor knew how her life was going to turn out, but just eight weeks after moving to L.A., her hopes and dreams were shattered. The next four years found Christin circling around, into, and back out of the film industry, until she finally found her way home.
Christin lives in historic Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Dwayne, and their children, Noelle and Nathan. They have lived and worked with college students since 2008. Christin teaches writing at Gettysburg College.
Covered in this episode:
- Shipwrecked by Christin Taylor
- Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller
- Bird By Bird by Anne Lamott
- Strengthfinders 2.0 by Tom Rath
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| 1:09.6 | referral to post your job for free. Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do List. |
| 1:36.6 | I am your host Eric Fisher and this week is a little personal. |
| 1:40.7 | I'm talking with Kristen Taylor who is an old college friend of mine and she has written a book called |
| 1:46.7 | Shipwrecked in LA finding purpose in a life adrift. Now this is more theoretical when it comes to productivity. If you're |
| 1:59.0 | listening to this for tips and tricks you'll hear some but this is going to be more about dealing with seasons of change in life as well as, you know, maybe dealing with a quarter life crisis or even a cyclical type crisis dealing with your identity and I believe |
| 2:16.5 | it's important for us to talk about that and deal with that when it comes to |
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