Asa Merritt: "Lionizing work," the "Illusion of Choice" and How to See A Path Forward

<p>Asa Merritt joins me to discuss:</p><ul><li>Risks of lionizing work</li><li>Perils of committing to our old standards</li><li>Dangers of imaginative courage</li><li>How to see a path forward to a life worth living</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>BIOGRAPHY:</strong> A former international reporter for NPR, VICE Sports, The Guardian, and ESPN’s “30 for 30” podcast, Asa brings a compassionate documentary eye to ambitious fictional projects. His one-woman play about mass movements, True Believer, had a sold-out run in New York City. To research that piece, Asa traveled to Cairo to meet with underground performers who helped ignite the Arab Spring. For his new Audible original podcast Six Sermons, starring Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All At Once), Asa spent a month embedded with a team of pastors at a Lutheran church in Cincinnati, OH. Six Sermons is dedicated to the actor and musician Caz Liske, who died by suicide in Moscow in 2017. Asa lives with his family in Mexico City.</p><p><strong>Sponsor:</strong>Is there something interfering with your happiness or is preventing you from achieving your goals?&nbsp;<a href="https://betterhelp.com/leo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://betterhelp.com/leo</a>&nbsp;and enjoy 10% off your first month and start talking to mental health professional today!!&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>1-on-1 Coaching</strong>: If you want go from feeling hopeless to hopeful, lonely to connected and like a burden to a blessing, then go to 1-on-1 coaching, go to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thrivewithleo.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.thrivewithleo.com</a>.&nbsp;Let’s get to tomorrow, together.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><strong>National Suicide Prevention Lifeline</strong></p><p>988</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Teen Line (Los Angeles)</strong></p><p>800-852-8336</p><p><br></p><p><strong>The Trevor Project (LGBTQ Youth Hotline)</strong></p><p>866-488-7386</p><p><br></p><p><strong>National Domestic Violence Hotline</strong></p><p>800-799-S