It's a terrifying thing when the heart starts to how in any capacity, whether in grief or joy.

But I think it's sort of a terrifying primal feeling that sometimes when we get too happy,

we get really worried that it's going to go away.

But I just was so surprised after years and years of not, literally not feeding myself great food, not eating enough, not giving myself enough

enough pleasure, enough joy, enough freedom. When you finally give that there can

you know enter in the sort of howling that is both brief and joy that you

waited so long to start feeding the self.

So many of us have had this fantasy of leaving behind some kind of mainstream corporate job

to follow our passion like art or writing or some other creative pursuit and then reality sets

in or rather our belief about how impossible it would be to support ourselves, let alone truly thrive and love what we do and earn a great living, doing the thing that lights us up following some inner creative impulse

which is why I am so excited to share executive turned full-time and flourishing poet Joy

Sullivan and her amazing story with you today.

So Joy went from an accomplished marketing career to becoming a full-time creative entrepreneur

in her new book Instructions for Traveling West, she chronicles this journey, both literal and

metaphorical, from the corporate world to self-expression and more than corporate level living

through art.

Joy received an MA in poetry from Miami University and has served as a poet in residence

for Wexner Center for the Arts.

She's brought her words to classrooms and events across the country and now she helps other writers

nourished their craft through her community sustenance. I was blown away by

joy's courage to leave the corporate life behind and build a career around her creative calling and her deep and

enduring passion for poetry. But she's quick to also bust the myth that you have to be broke,

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