Your Ordinary Life Is Full of Extraordinary Stories — Here’s How Award-Winning Author Laurie Koss Learned to See Them

Most people look at their own lives and see the ordinary — the daily routines, the small decisions, the moments that seem too unremarkable to be worth remembering. Laurie Koss looked at hers and found 515 stories worth telling. As an award-winning Canadian artist and author, she spent years capturing the moments of her life — from a Vancouver childhood shadowed by a loving but alcoholic parent, through career milestones and romantic relationships, a life-altering illness and the spiritual growth that followed — in Lessons Learned: From the Short Stories of My Life, a memoir unlike anything else in the genre. What she shares with Stacey Chillemi about how she learned to find the profound lesson inside the apparently ordinary moment, the humour and heartache and hard-won wisdom that surface when you actually stop to look at your own life honestly, and what writing 515 stories taught her about what a life is really made of will give you the most unexpectedly moving and personally activating storytelling conversation you have encountered. Your life is full of lessons you have not written down yet. This episode might be the reason you start. Become a supporter of this podcast: . Follow The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi for weekly episodes on mindset, wellness, spirituality, and business growth—without burnout. Newsletter & resources: https://substack.com/@staceychillemi Watch & connect: • • Be a guest/sponsor: [email protected] • or Disclaimer: Educational only; not medical, mental-health, or legal advice. © The Advisor with Stacey Chillemi. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices