FINDING YOUR WALDEN: How to Strive Less, Simplify More, & Embrace What Matters Most

Today my special guest is Jen Tota McGivney author of FINDING YOUR WALDEN: How to Strive Less, Simplify More, & Embrace What Matters Most. FINDING YOUR WALDEN is self-help meets choose your adventure inspired by the philosophy of Thoreau. It applies a journalist’s lens to a misunderstood literary icon, exploring how experts—psychologists, leaders, and scholars—support Thoreau’s principles as guideposts for today’s Great Reassessment and how they can be adapted today, and why they should. As people reassess priorities to create values-based lifestyles in a profit-based society, Thoreau’s life offers a precedent, and his philosophy provides a path. Finding Your Walden isn’t about shunning money or success. It’s about grappling with the purpose of the first and the meaning of the second. Thoreau sets us on a path to discover fulfillment and happiness—we just need to stop at a cabin on our way. Jen Tota McGivney is a writer in Charlotte, North Carolina. She’s the back-page columnist for Charlotte Magazine, and her work also appears in SUCCESS Magazine, Our State Magazine, and Southern Living, among others. She has a master’s degree in English and a soft spot for the transcendentalists. For more information visit jenmcgivney.com