She was 21, asleep five blocks from the Twin Towers, when her university locked the students inside the building on 9/11 and refused to evacuate. Meg Keene was certain she was going to die, and that morning shaped the rest of her life.
Meg founded A Practical Wedding, the largest independent wedding publication in the English language, grew it into an eight-figure business, sold more than 150,000 books, and now writes "Field Notes for the Brave" on Substack.
In this conversation we cover what bravery actually is, the grandfather who survived a WWII POW camp, getting kicked out of Sunday school for asking the wrong question, raising kids who think for themselves, why the "word people" will be just fine in the age of AI, the conversion story she rarely tells, and the simplest gut-check for a numbed-out life I've ever heard.
If you've been going through the motions, this episode is for you.
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Meg Keene's "Field Notes for the Brave" on Substack.
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