A conversation with author and founder of the Good Food Cooking School, Heather Crosby. Essential listening for anyone who has driven themselves so hard, for so long, that they woke up one day and didn't recognize themselves anymore.
Heather Crosby built YumUniverse, the Gluten Free Baking Academy, and the Good Food Cooking School almost entirely alone. She designed everything, photographed everything, wrote and tested every recipe, and handled every decision. From the outside, it looked like a thriving creative business. From the inside, it was quietly and steadily grinding her down.
What followed was burnout so deep that she lost her joy for cooking entirely. An identity crisis she hadn't seen coming. And then, slowly, something else. Horticultural therapy and a job.
Heather is in what she calls the fertile void right now. She has all the pieces for what comes next and a genuine resistance to rushing toward it. She is learning, maybe for the first time, to let something come to her instead of building toward it at full speed.
This conversation is about what happens after the big thing. About the loneliness of doing it all yourself. About losing and slowly finding your way back to the thing you love. And about trusting that what is underground is still growing, even when you cannot see it yet.
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