333 - When Your Public Self Needs to Go Private - How to Take a Platform Break Part 1

Life can throw us curve balls, and if we are not careful, our platform can take over our life. In this episode, Kathi is sitting down with her friend and fellow author Michele Cushatt to discuss when taking a platform break is needed and steps to take that break. Michele shares her first book launch experience, which occurred while she was battling cancer. She was led to write more books following Undone. Michele became overwhelmed and knew it was time for her own platform break. Listen in as she shares intimate parts of her story and the first step to taking your platform break. Why you need to take a platform break. Write it down and be clear. Come back next week for Part 2 as Kathi and Michele discuss the next steps to taking a platform break.  Sign up here to be notified when new episodes are released! Inside Scoop: Sign up for the Writing Tips Newsletter at Writing at the Red House to get Kathi’s 7 Day Platform Plan for free. Preorder your own copy of Michele Cushatt’s new book, A Faith That Will Not Fail, today. Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle, disappointment, and loss. And we don’t know what to do with it. We’ve tried to find hope and security in various people and places–but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more. Something–or Someone–who won’t fail us when our world falls apart. In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt presents a better way. By exploring powerful personal, historical, and biblical stories of people of extraordinary faith, she curates and shares ten practices to help you deepen your confidence and certainty in the God who can be trusted with your worry, questions, confusion, and grief. As a woman who has been through immeasurable suffering, she writes with both deep compassion and practical insight as she guides you to: Practice lament and process grief without guilt or shame. Understand what keeps you from trusting God and how to navigate doubt with truth. Learn simple ways to foster shalom and gratitude on a daily basis. Develop a fresh, eternal perspective that delivers both peace for today and hope for tomorrow. Savor daily “faith-builder” practices to strengthen your confidence in God’s love and purposes for you, no matter what happens. There is hope in your hardship and a God who is both with you and for you. These ten practices point the way to the only One you can truly trust, and ultimately, to a faith in him that will not fail.