Meet Faith Eidse

We were lucky to catch up with Faith Eidse recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Faith, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

From childhood I faced unusual circumstances and challenges as a Third Culture Kid. That is, I was raised among many cultures, in several countries and continents as a child of professionals who practiced in Congo, Canada and the US. This meant I learned to navigate home and host cultures, selecting traits from each to develop my identity and respond to many challenges–such as revolution, disease, language barriers, and cultural differences. Sociologists have termed children who select traits from first and second (and third or fourth cultures) to create a unique combination, Third Culture Kids.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I am an author of award-winning oral histories, memoirs and essay collections. A retired creative writing professor, I have devoted myself to holding writing workshops, panels, and inspiring book presentations and signings. My goal is to encourage others to write their stories and to read, review, edit and promote them in their publishing endeavors. Today I am excited that another of my many students has reported interest by a publisher who would be a perfect fit for her memoir. Among the projects I’ve shepherded are one by my MD cousin who rescued her community and son from opioid addiction and another by a coworker who wrote about surviving and overcoming child abuse.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Three skills that impacted my journey were:
1) My interest from a young age in story-telling as a way to process experience across various cultures and adventures.
2) My development as a letter-writer from the time I could read and write to reporter, editor and journalist.
3) My return as an adult to graduate school to study literature and creative writing.

Okay, so before we go we always love to ask if you are looking for folks to partner or collaborate with?

I consider collaboration the greatest asset of my journey. I have always believed in reaching out and bringing other people along as the way we lift and inspire one another to our greatest potential.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Eidse/e/B00IWT66YA
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Image Credits

Philip Kuhns