What’s More to Your Life all about?
More to Your Life is a sometimes funny column by a self-proclaimed explorer discovering what makes life rich and people interesting. There are stories.
It’s full of anecdotes and sometimes funny thoughts about human-ing and life—work, AI, freedom, dating, money, travel, simplifying, exploration, talking with strangers, Dateline, and the occasional, non-pushy recommendation for rich living.
In a world saturated with advice and life/productivity hacks and AI, we need more storytelling and talk about life, living, and being human. Don’t you think? I sure do.
Free subscribers to MTYL get 1-2 columns/per week on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Paid subscribers to MTYL get paid-only essays and audio stories 1-2x/month as well as much appreciation for supporting my writing. As a taste, here’s an example of a paid-only essay I’m considering: “How I Wrote a Book and You Can Too”—a reflective, self-deprecating, and semi-helpful essay about self-publishing.
You’ll probably love it here if…
You are a reader and like stories. You like substance over posturing, growth over comfort, and creating over consuming. You love stuff that inspires and celebrates more living, more freedom, more personal responsibility, and more fun.
This column is here to add some life to your inbox, make you think, laugh occasionally, and maybe spur you to take more action on your dreams, but not because I’m giving a lot of advice in it.
About Me
I’m Emily Burnett, a middle-child and writer writing my way out of fixing and overthinking, oh, all kinds of things.
In 2022, I quit my comfortable tech job for an early mid-life rewrite; I planned to grow my financial coaching empire but ended up traveling my way into complicated love with uncertainty, writing, and more living. I’ve leapt, rebuilt, risked, and recovered multiple times, and this recent experience taught me in a big way that taking the leap is always worth what you discover—about yourself, about the world, about faith, about strangers, about life.
After traveling for all of 2023-2024, I made home-base near Salt Lake City, UT. I read avidly and widely, love Jesus, being outside, and playing pickleball. And I can’t help but be fascinated by true crime.
If what I’m writing about here at More to Your Life sounds like your cup of tea, I’d love to have you.
