Martha Beck

I didn't have anything.

And it made me able to just follow the river.

And then I read in USA Today that I was the most famous life coach in America.

And I didn't even know the term life coach.

I was like, how the fuck did that happen?

All right.

All right.

You know, and people like showed up to help me with money and stuff.

Oh, oh, all right.

And it's that, that was 30 years ago.

And I, it's been the same ever since all I ever do.

Like what feels like freedom?

I came here along a road where I just did not give a shit what anyone said I was supposed to do.

I thought I would just run amok.

And in fact, I was like, damn, I love almost everybody and I want everybody to be happy.

So...

The reason I did that whole thing about not lying was that I had a surgery.

And in the surgery, I had one of those, it wasn't a near-death experience because I was pale and hardy, but I was...

I was not conscious, and then I was conscious, and then I was watching my body from above, and then I leaned back, and this light appeared.

And I was ready to... If I hadn't had kids, I was so ready to be dead.