We recently had the chance to connect with Pat Backley and have shared our conversation below.
Pat, really appreciate you sharing your stories and insights with us. The world would have so much more understanding and empathy if we all were a bit more open about our stories and how they have helped shaped our journey and worldview. Let’s jump in with a fun one: What’s more important to you—intelligence, energy, or integrity?
Integrity
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I am English, but emigrated to New Zealand when I was 59.
Just before my 70th birthday I started my new career and published my first book DAISY.
Now, four years later I have written and published 9 books, and contributed many short stories and articles to different anthologies and magazines.
In short, I have found my passion and now intend to write till I die.
Great, so let’s dive into your journey a bit more. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
Being abandoned by my second husband after a 26 year marriage.
I have always been a people pleaser, giving up my own dreams to help other people achieve theirs, but now, after 7 years of being single, I realise that i am actually a strong, independent and powerful woman with much to offer the world.
If you could say one kind thing to your younger self, what would it be?
Never give up and always have big dreams.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What’s a belief you used to hold tightly but now think was naive or wrong?
That if i kept trying harder in a relationship it would make it work.
I now realise that both partners have to try!
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: Are you doing what you were born to do—or what you were told to do?
I spent the first 69 years of my life doing what people expected of me. Now I live life the way I want to and all my past experiences give me plenty of things/people to write about!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.patbackley.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.patbackleyauthor
- Linkedin: @patbackley
- Twitter: @patbackleybooks
- Facebook: @patbackleyauthor
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