Interview with Lindsey Leavitt

I procrastinate a lot of things—mailing packages, sending off thank you notes, writing letters to people, posting things on my blog, etc. Often, I will have something in my possession for so long, that I will reach a point at which I am too ashamed to finally mail, post, or write the thing, because it’s embarrassing how long I’ve put it off. Perhaps the person will forget about it, and maybe, conveniently, forget that I exist. Perhaps they will just have a vague memory of me one day. “Didn’t we do an interview together at one time?” they’ll say.

This is what happened with my interview with Lindsey Leavitt.

I had interviewed her early in 2022. At the time, I had just barely started working full time for my father-in-law, and I figured I would have time to edit and post the interview in my spare time. Of course, my YouTube channel would go viral, Lindsey would sell millions of copies of her book, I’d quit my job, and then everyone would want to be on my YouTube talkshow/podcast. It would be awesome.

But once my job at the clinic got going, I quickly discovered I was pretty tired after work everyday, and “spare time” was something that could be used for reading books, or starting side hustles. Not editing videos, unless you want each video to take a month to finish. I knew that editing video takes a lot of time. So I put it off. I basically stopped doing anything creative for a couple of years. Besides, my YouTube channel was small with hardly any followers, anyway. Who was I kidding?

And I put it off some more.

Then last summer, for reasons such as in an office was never what I was meant to be doing, or I decided I actually did want to work on my YouTube channel. I realized that no matter how insignificant my YouTube channel may be, she did take the time to chat with me about the process of writingquietly posted the video. a couple months before Lindsey opened Folklore, her wonderful independent bookshop, When we visited Folklore on the opening day, sand realized she’s either A) forgiven me for not posting the interview, B) forgotten all about it, or C) was politely not saying anything about it.