Bronnie Ware is best known as the author of the international bestselling memoir The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, read by over a million people in 32 languages, and with a movie in the pipeline. She is a respected teacher of courage on the global stage, and is a passionate advocate for simplicity and getting out of the way for life to provide some shortcuts. Bronnie lives in northern New South Wales, Australia. 

 

In this episode we talk about:

  •  growing up on farms in Australia with parents who were both musicians and took stable jobs to support the family 
  • choosing a career in banking at age 19 and getting married and thinking she was choosing the most stable and secure life
  • what pushed her to get out of her marriage with an alcoholic husband
  • giving herself a fresh start and doing what called to her including moving to a resort island for two years. 
  • living where she wanted around the world and taking any job she could get, only carrying if she was having fun in her personal life
  • starting to become a songwriter and musician at age 35
  • how she got into taking care of the terminally ill as a palliative care worker
  • how the conversations of regrets would naturally come up with her patients and how she used their regrets to look at how she was living her life
  • starting a songwriting workshop in a woman’s jail because she wanted to work with hope
  • a music magazine editor asking her to write about her experience in the jail and how that led to her writing the article on the top 5 regrets
  • slipping into a depression and not knowing what to do next in life and then the blog on regrets went viral and having an agent approach her to write a book
  • her book getting turned down by all publishers so self-publishing 
  • the magical timing that she did get offered a proper book deal on the book that has now become an INTL bestseller
  • not wanting to write another memoir but as soon as gave herself space to write Bloom her book on courage and breaking through upper limits came through. 
  • writing purely for joy and writing her first  novel 
  • Which keychain she chose from my line and why!

For more on Bronnie and to get her books go to https://bronnieware.com and @bronnie.ware

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