Erin Falconer is an author, digital entrepreneur and associate psychotherapist. In 2022 she released the much anticipated, ‘How To Break Up with Your Friends: Finding Meaning, Connection and Boundaries in Modern Friendship,’ as a follow up to her 2018, critically acclaimed self-improvement/female empowerment book, How To Get Shit Done: Why Women Need To Stop Doing Everything So They Can Achieve Anything.
Since 2008, she has been the editor-in-chief and co-owner of PickTheBrain. In 2017, Erin launched the PickTheBrain Podcast which ranks consistently in the top 20 in the Heath and Self-Improvement categories on iTunes
and in 2019 was featured on the iTunes homepage, twice. Forbes Magazine named Falconer’s blog one of the “Top 100 Most Influential Sites for Women. Erin is also the co-founder of LEAFtv a video lifestyle brand for the Millennial woman. In 2015, LEAFtv was sold to publicly traded Demand Media – now trading as The Leaf Group.
Erin has been heralded as one of the most influential female voices online, designated one of the Top Digital Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles by LA Confidential Magazine as well as being honored by Cadillac & Refinery 29 as one of “Top 7 Women Changing the Digital Landscape for Good.” In 2014, The Wall Street Journal included Erin in their prestigious “Women of Note.” In 2018 she was recognized as an “Architect of Change,” by Maria Shriver.
In this episode we talk about:
- how she ended up ending a comedy competition in high school and how that shaped the direction of her life.
- choosing between law school and comedy and listening to her gut
- almost giving up on becoming a writer in LA and the plan she gave herself
- how she came to run one of the top personal development websites
- how her first book came to be
- how her second book came to be
- why it is often challenging for us to “break up” with and shift dynamics with friends
- what inspired her to become a licensed therapist
- and so much more!
Find more from Erin and get her books at http://erinfalconer.com and @erinfalconer
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