TLS #93 with John and Sherry Petersik: Life After Blogging, The New Book, & Blog/Life Boundaries
The Lively Show
Bella Lively
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today’s show is quite simply… epic for any fans of John and Sherry Petersik of Young House Love!
John and Sherry are the husband and wife duo that have a large mammoth and devoted community that has followed their DIY successes, home decor adventures, and personal journey since 2007.
Then, in October of 2014, they decided to leave their full-time blogging career behind.
But they’re back… at least on today’s podcast!
They are covering all the bases:
– What they’ve been up to since they stopped blogging.
– How their careers have evolved post-blog.
– A sneak peek behind their new book, Lovable, Livable Home (launching September 22nd!).
– What’s new with Clara, Teddy, and Burger.
– How their blog/life boundaries and priorities have changed.
– Why they stopped blogging.
– The role positive and critical feedback played in closing the blog.
– And – of course – whether or not they plan to re-open the blog.
Let’s go to the show!
PS – For those who cannot hear podcasts, we have made a transcript for this episode.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT
- What enabled John and Sherry to quit their jobs and focus on their blog full time while raising their children.
- What John and Sherry have been doing since they stopped blogging in October of 2014, and how they have been able to use the skills they developed while blogging to make a living without their platform.
- John and Sherry tell us about their new book.
- How their home decorating and DIY process has changed since they stopped blogging and why they feel in some ways the process is more genuine and enjoyable now.
- The scrutiny they received by readers of their blog and the role it played in their decision to leave blogging.
- Why feedback, both good and bad, hindered their ability to be authentic.
- Their advice to someone who is struggling with public scrutiny online.
- How John and Sherry have changed their conception of their self worth and found a better balance in their lives after leaving the blog.
- What John and Sherry would tell someone just starting out on this journey.
SHOW NOTES
Lovable Livable Home (pre-order for September 22nd, 2015)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 93. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome to the Lively Show. I'm your host Jess Lively, |
| 0:08.2 | and this blogcast is designed to uplift, inspire, and add a little extra intention |
| 0:12.4 | to your everyday. |
| 0:13.4 | Welcome to the show guys. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to the show guys. |
| 0:21.8 | Thank you so much for listening as always. Before I get into today's awesome episode, |
| 0:28.0 | I want to do a quick shout out for anyone who is not yet signed up for the upcoming intention setting workshops that I'm doing free, live, and online. |
| 0:37.3 | The first one's tomorrow and the second one is Tuesday. |
| 0:41.0 | These are the only intention setting live, free online workshops I'll be doing in all of 2015 |
| 0:46.0 | so I hope you join me if you can make it. You can register over at life with intention online.com. |
| 0:52.0 | So far over a thousand people have signed up for the workshops, |
| 0:55.4 | and I cannot wait to work with you as well. |
| 0:58.0 | I'll be answering your questions live and staying on after to answer any other questions |
| 1:02.1 | you have about the show or just life in general as well. |
| 1:06.0 | For those who can't make the live workshops, don't worry. |
| 1:08.6 | I also have a mini series for you coming out later next week, so you'll get details on that then. |
| 1:14.7 | Now let's talk about today's episode. |
| 1:16.8 | Today's episode is with John and Sherry Peterstick of Younghouselove.com. |
| 1:21.7 | I'm guessing that many of you listening to this episode already |
| 1:24.6 | know John and Cherry. They don't really need an intro. But for anyone that's not familiar |
| 1:28.7 | with them, I have actually kind of struggled to try to describe them without trying to do some laundry list of all of their achievements. of for seven years. Four of them they were both full-time blogging as their full-time |
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