Host Jillian Anthony (author of the Cruel Summer Book Club newsletter and former Editor of Time Out New York) ushers in the second season of the podcast with a solo episode. She discusses the three biggest changes in her life over the past year: 1. She deprioritized work, while building a freelance writing and editing career. 2. She spent the first 167 days of the year sober. 3. She felt the heavy impact of changes in her friendships and social circles.
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Twitter: @jillathrilla
Instagram: @jillathrilla
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Time stamps
1:10 – Guest lineup and what you can expect this season
3:32 – Three big changes for Jillian this year
4:01 – Deprioritizing work
5:38 – Imagining what a new work life could look like
6:17 – Resources that helped Jillian reprioritize
8:16 – Forming a freelance life
11:21 – Planning a month off in Europe
13:57 – Gifts of freelance life
16:10 – Exploring long term sobriety
16:53 – Jillian’s discomfort with her relationship to alcohol
20:00 – Choosing 100 days of sobriety
20:29 – What is sober curious?
21:50 – What Jillian learned through sobriety
25:27 – Changing friendships
25:49 – How many friends can you have?
29:20 – Write a Friendship Circle
31:15 – Intentional plans for fall
32:53 – Outro
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Resources:
Life coach Catherine Andrews: https://www.catherinedandrews.com
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron: https://juliacameronlive.com
Fran Hauser’s Four-Square Model: https://www.franhauser.com/blog/my-secret-tool-to-setting-boundaries
YearCompass: https://yearcompass.com
Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington: http://www.rubywarrington.com/books/sober-curious
The Sober Curious Reset by Ruby Warrington: http://www.rubywarrington.com/books/sober-curious-reset
Friends: Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar: https://bookshop.org/books/friends-understanding-the-power-of-our-most-important-relationships-9780349143576/9781408711736
Robin Dunbar’s Friendship Circle
Transcript link: https://cruelsummerbookclub.substack.com/p/transcript-a-year-of-big-changes
