Your Write Life Coach | Motivation and Momentum for Heart-Led Authors

You've been told your whole life that multitasking is a skill — maybe even a superpower. You put it on your resume. You wear your ability to juggle everything as a badge of honor. But what if it's been costing you more than it's giving you? In this episode, I share why multitasking is actually a myth, what it's doing to your writing, and the simple shift that can unlock more focus,...

What if the pressure you feel to make it happen right now is the very thing standing between you and a lasting publishing career?   In this episode, I share one of the most powerful — and most overlooked — strategies in publishing: the shift from short-term thinking to long-term thinking. Through two contrasting author stories, a Nelson Mandela quote that reframes rejection entirely, and three qua...

You’ve probably said it. Maybe you’ve said it this week: “I just don’t have time to write.” In this episode, I lovingly, firmly push back on that story — because what looks like a time problem is almost always something deeper. Drawing on my own experience building an online course in the margins of a very full life, and honoring the legacy of my friend Beverly — a writer who published four books...

What if the wall between you and the work you were made to do isn’t your writing, your marketing, or your platform at all — but something much closer to home? In this episode, I get honest about what this show is not about (writing tips, marketing hacks, the usual strategies) and what it’s really for: calling you up to your highest self-expression. I share my story of chasing my dream of becoming...

You’ve poured yourself into your writing. You’ve revised, wrestled, and stayed up too late getting it right. And still — crickets. Polite nods. A readership that doesn’t quite connect the way you hoped. Here’s what I’ve noticed after working with writers and manuscripts for years: most of the time, the gap isn’t about the quality of the writing. It’s about whether the writing is speaking to what t...

Have you ever felt so harshly judged that you stopped being yourself just to survive? In this deeply personal episode, I share the story I don't tell lightly — the time I almost lost my dream job, and what happened when desperation finally pushed me toward the most important discovery of my career: the power of becoming my real self. This one is for every heart-led author who's been perfor...

Have you ever found yourself posting, promoting, and showing up everywhere online — and still feeling invisible? Or worse, like you've somehow lost the thread back to why you started writing in the first place? In this episode, I get honest about the hidden cost of hustling for attention — and it's not just your time. It's your voice. Drawing on stories from my coaching and editing wor...

If you’ve ever Googled “how do I get more readers” and gotten back “build your platform” — this episode is for you. In this episode, I share the story of an unlikely author: a rocket scientist who never set out to write a book, had zero social media presence, and ended up with a six-book deal with a traditional publisher. His secret? He followed his heart and stayed open to creative ideas about ho...

If you're a heart-centered author of non-fiction, fiction, or memoir who is done with confusion and ready for clarity — done with hustle and ready to rise — you're in the right place. Welcome to Your Write Life Coach! I'm Alice Crider, your write life coach. As a book editor and certified life coach with almost 30 years inside the publishing world, I've worked with hundreds of auth...