Life Stories #48: Patty Chang Anker

Patty Chang Anker created the blog Facing Forty Upside Down to chronicle her efforts to overcome some of the fears she'd had since childhood--fear of swimming in open water, of riding a bike, and so on. But the project soon grew into an outreach with other people who were confronting fears of their own, and a powerful education in how to reject the critical internal voices that keep us from enjoying life to the fullest. She joins me to talk about what she's learned--and how her previous career as a book publicist prepared her for becoming a published author.