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Live Well Anyway

S7 Ep76: Say Yes to Life with Scott Erickson

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6605 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode the Live Well Anyway podcast, host MacKenzie Koppa talks with artist, author, performance speaker, and creative curate, Scott Erickson, about his new book Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream. Scott talks about the story behind his book and how his stage show developed out of a desire to discuss suicide in a helpful way. He also talks about dreams and desires, vulnerability and disappointment, and finding your voice free of shame.

(Note of warning for parents: this episode contains some material that is inappropriate for young ears, so listening discretion is recommended.)

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0:00.0

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0:26.3

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0:41.7

Welcome to Live Well Anyway.

0:47.8

I'm your host, McKenzie Kappa, and on this podcast we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life.

0:51.4

Basically, life is messy, and here we learn to live well anyway.

0:54.1

So join me on this journey as we figured out together.

1:03.2

And just to get us started, I'll go first. Okay, you guys, today I have Scott Erickson on the show.

1:13.7

Um, what a buck wild fun interview this was. This was one of those books that I actually sought out. I went to the publisher and I was like, I would really like to get this guy on the show. I even contacted his

1:18.2

agent because I knew it was going to be good and I knew I wanted to read it and talk about it.

1:24.4

And so I got a hard copy of his book in the mail, which was so fun and

1:28.7

beautiful because he does the artwork for it. So that makes it really fun. But to add another

1:34.2

layer of interestingness and joy, I listened to the audiobook for this book because I wanted

1:42.3

to hear him say it in his own words, and it also, as a podcaster,

1:45.2

helps me to get through the books faster that I am trying to read for all these podcast episodes.

1:50.0

So I was able to listen to him read this book, which was great in his inflection, but then also

1:56.0

go and see all of the artwork and the pictures and all of that kind of stuff, which really

2:00.4

was, it was like a full sensory experience. It was the pictures and all of that kind of stuff, which really was, it was

2:00.9

like a full sensory experience. It was the best of all the worlds. I can't recommend it enough.

2:06.8

But however it is that you consume this book, I think it is fun and heartfelt and worthwhile

2:13.8

and interesting. And it hits at a lot of things that maybe we avoid talking about

2:18.5

in Christian culture like disappointment with our life or suicide or really difficult things

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