So for the better part of the decade, my guest today, Leothal, was one of the driving

forces behind the ascension of the cultural icon that has become known as the Moth, and

its expansion from a local underground scene to a global media phenomenon with a huge

presence not only on stages of all sizes, but in the world of podcasting and public radio.

And the funny thing is, that was never Leoth's plan until it was.

While working with a team that would change the face of media and storytelling, she was

also living into her own, very hard driving, sometimes destructive, and massively overworked

story.

Before everything came to a head, and she found herself in a place where all of it, her

work, her relationships, her health, her life, more or less came tumbling down, and

she had to make some decisions.

How would she rebuild it in a way that would let her live the life she wanted?

That exploration eventually led her to really step out of the space for a window of time,

and then back into it to launch what became the popular podcast Strangers, which won the

2015 public radio March Madness contest, beating out some of the most iconic shows in the

space.

Along the way, she has also worked with everyone from post-grad fellows at Harvard to inner

city kids, people in homeless shelters in New York and LA, two celebrities like Ethan

Hawk, Mark Marin, Darrell DMC McDaniels, Margaret Cho Susan Vega, and even mega brands like

Google, Nike, Intel, Satchie and Satchie Tiffany through her company's story central, really

helping to understand how to elicit and then become better tellers of their own stories.

So excited to share this conversation with you on Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life

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