Molly E Holzschlag Podcast.20

Download the interview with Molly.

If I say so myself, this is a truly fascinating audio interview with Molly E. Holzschlag of Molly.com

Molly, who is one of the top speakers on web design and development - confessed on her blog last week that she was sitting in her London hotel room with “a minibar full of alcohol, and 80 Lorazepam tablets (2 milligrams each) and 100 friends within a mile radius,” and that she was suffering from a deep depression. She went on to write frankly about series of personal problems.(Counting the Coup Telling True)

She was inundated with responses on her blog, as well as emails and phone calls from friends who were truly worried about her. The very next day she appeared at the @media and gave one of the best presentations of her career.

In the interview, she says of the decision to blog about her problems:

“It was a turning point in my whole process. That night I didn’t know that I had the courage to live another day.”

I think this goes to the heart of what blogging is all about. Here we have a leading professional in her field who has used her blog to enhance her reputation for expertise. At the same time, she writes on a deeply personal level, and has an amazingly close relationship with readers around the world, many of whom she has never met before.

It’s worth a listen, and makes up for my first disasterous attempt to interview Molly last Christmas. The duration is around 10 minutes.

Many thanks to Ian Forrester for organising the @Media social event where I met Molly.

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