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 one day.
It’s not that I don’t appreciate the person or what they gave me, or did for me. It’s mostly that the shame gets the better of me.
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 unknown to me, I got brave enough to post it, despite the shame of being late to the party and without much to offer. Perhaps it’s that Lindsey inspired me by opening an independent bookstore last summer. If she could take a huge leap into the unknown and live out that kind of dream, then how could I not scrape up the courage to just post the damn interview, late as it is.
If you’d like to visit her gorgeous book shop called Folklore in Midway, Utah, please do. You won’t be sorry.
And if you’d like to see our interview where we discuss the most wonderful chapter book about a 9-year-old life coach who’s brave and living out his dreams, go ahead and click on the button below.