Tina Essmaker on Resiliency and Embracing the Great Contentment

Host Justin Gignac (@justingignac) sits down in the studio with Tina Essmaker (@tinaessmaker) for a deeply personal conversation. Tina opens up about loss, divorce, resiliency, and new beginnings as she moves on from her role as Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of The Great Discontent. She embarks on this next chapter of her career as a coach, speaker, and writer with courage and enthusiasm. Tina has made a career out of listening to and supporting others. For more than a decade, she was focused on social work helping runaway and homeless teens. Then co-founded TGD where she interviewed over 250 artists, makers and risk takers, including Cheryl Strayed, Debbie Millman, Reggie Watts, Tavi Gevinson, Leon Bridges, and Krista Tippett. In this episode, you will learn how to pick yourself back up in difficult times and create a life from the inside out based on what’s important to you instead of reacting to outside pressures and expectations. Follow @OvershareTalks on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook SHOW NOTES: Tina's Website Asking Not Asking, Tina's Bimonthly Coaching Column on WNW Magazine The War of Art by Steven Pressfield Dan Rubin interview, the first on TGD Author Sheila Heti Author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed Tina's 2017 AIGA Design Conference talk on humanity, vulnerability and empathy Podcasts about money Every Dollar, Dave Ramsey's budgeting app Justin's speaking nightmare of losing his notes in his first ever professional talk (just watch the first 60 seconds)