I’m glad to meet you — and I’m happy that you’ve taken the time to visit, to start this journey with me.
I started this a long time ago by writing relationship articles. I always felt compelled and called to do this type of work. I’ve always written, I’ve always kept a journal. Whether I was on the floor serving cocktails or sitting behind a desk at my computer — I’ve always had a notebook right there, ready to take down my thoughts.
I never imagined this journey would go the way it did. I thought by writing my first book that would be it — amazing fireworks, and then the work is done. But no, it wasn’t. It didn’t happen overnight. Oprah didn’t call me. The TV shows weren’t lined up. And I was still at my job serving cocktails.
But life was still teaching me, even if the spotlight wasn’t.
I also graduated from college.
I also went through things that I’m not comfortable speaking about — and I let the art speak for itself, in my words and my creativity. That’s where the volume turned up in my writing.
I didn’t want to be consumed by pain or anything that was happening in life — that part I knew. But I knew I had to take the things that happened — the rejection, the loss, the letdowns, the darker uncomfortable stuff — and put it somewhere productive. That’s where I said: let’s put it in my words. Let the art speak and leave it all on the table.
But it wasn’t overnight.
Some books I started out offering sage, insightful tips without sharing about myself.
As time went on, and as the pressures of life got heavier, I got to a place where I was finally comfortable sharing more of myself — really more of that in my latest book, God Is Working on a Bigger Yes.
And while I thought my goals were the obvious ones that every writer wants — exposure, overnight success, top literary agencies, books turning into movies — what I got was something deeper, something more meaningful.
No matter what — even if no one else, excluding you who’s reading this, ever sees it, ever acknowledges it, never tells 100 people and those hundred people never tell a hundred other people — what I have done, what I have created, will help someone. And that’s good enough for me.
When you experience life you have options, you have choices in how you handle what has come to you. Do you succumb to it — or do you make art? Do you take the leftovers and throw them away — or do you reinvent a new meal?
That’s how I’ve approached and tried to balance everything in life, with everything that’s parallel.
What do I do with it? I put it in my words. I put it in my art. I put it in my voice, my podcast, and so forth.
So that’s what you’re going to get from me. Every book, every project, everything I create has come from a place of breakthrough.
The goal is simply to inspire someone who could be at the same spot and just say — you’re not alone.
So I thank you for visiting, reading, sharing, subscribing — or maybe just stopping by to check it out of curiosity.
This is me.
I’m Lesley. Nice to meet you.
Every book I write comes from this same place of breakthrough. You can find them all on my Amazon Author Page.