Sit. Heal. Stay. is writer Spike Gillespie’s mid-life manifesto! VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Intervi

Today's Guest: Writer Spike Gillespie, author of Sit. Stay. Heal: How Meditation Changed My Mind, Grew My Heart, and Saved My Ass.
 

Watch this exclusive Mr. Media interview with writer Spike Gillespie, author of Sit. Stay. Heal: How Meditation Changed My Mind, Grew My Heart, and Saved My Ass, by clicking on the video player above!

Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience full of anesthesized fellow citizens brought together by the common meditative chant ‘Go Dog! Go!’ … in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

I always imagined that a woman named Spike Gillespie had to have a great backstory.

I just never dreamed I’d actually get to read it.

Spike first came into my life when I was editing and publishing an alternative newspaper, JUMP Monthly. I’m a little fuzzy on the details, 30 years later, but I remember being enamored of her name and the details and narrative style found in her writing.
SPIKE GILLESPIE podcast excerpt: "Many years ago, around the time of SXSW, my first book, 'All the Wrong Men' came out. In two completely different incidents, I was walking down 6th Street and two strangers stopped me, hugged me, and thanked me for writing my book. They said that it really told their story, too."
You can LISTEN to this interview with writer SPIKE GILLESPIE, author of SIT. STAY. HEAL., by clicking the audio player above!

JUMP was short-lived and Spike and I went our respective ways. She wrote stories that appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, Elle, and Smithsonian Magazine as well as books such as All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy: A Memoir and Pissed Off: On Women and Anger. She currently writes two blogs, “Keeping Austin Austin” and “Meditation Kicks Ass.” She also officiates weddings in and around her adopted hometown of Austin, Texas.

We lost touch for years until Facebook put her name and face in front of me in 2014 as someone I might kno