Creativity, Courage, and a Successful Life are on the table today!

On the first episode of our How to Live a Successful Life series, Ashley sits down with William J. Cranstover. William is a Park City-based painter and sculptor whose colorful, expressive work captures Western landscapes and local landmarks. His unexpected public sculptures earned him the nickname “Phantom Sculptor.”

William joins us to share his journey through teaching, entrepreneurship, real estate, and art, and how each chapter shaped his understanding of success. He opens up about balancing the practical demands of raising a family with his creative pursuits, finding the courage to paint what he loves, and embracing the vulnerability that comes with putting his work into the world.

Together, Ashley and William explore how our definition of success evolves, why curiosity and playfulness matter, and the value of pausing to ask whether we’re living the life we want. From teaching art in a correctional setting to creating alongside his daughters, William reflects on the satisfaction and connection that creativity can bring.

Explore William’s work.

Visit William’s studio and gallery in the historic mercantile building in Peoa, Utah.

Read The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green.

Read Western short stories by Elmore Leonard.

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We’re revisiting our conversation with Susan Turnbull, originally released as part of our Death + Dying series, to explore the stories, values, and life lessons we want to share with those we love.

Susan is the founder and Principal of Personal Legacy Advisors and the author of The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will. Her work helps people put their experiences, hopes, and personal wisdom into words that can connect generations.

In this conversation, Susan and Ashley explore ethical wills: personal legacy documents that communicate the emotional, spiritual, and ethical values we wish to pass on. They discuss how to begin reflecting on our own legacies, the fears and discomfort that can accompany conversations about death, and how this process can deepen our relationships while we’re here.

Whether you’re hearing this episode for the first time or returning to it, we hope it offers a starting point for meaningful conversations—and encouragement to share the things that too often go unsaid.

Connect with Susan and explore the resources mentioned:

• Personal Legacy Advisors
• Susan on LinkedIn
• The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will by Susan Turnbull
• A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by B.J. Miller and Shoshana Berger
• The Four Things That Matter Most by Ira Byock
• For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story by Steve Leder

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We have journalism, technology and life as a woman in the executive world on the table today. This is a palette cleanser and re-release of our episode with Anne Kornblut. Anne is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is currently the Vice President of Global Product Content Operations at Meta, FKA Facebook. Anne previously served as a Senior Editor at The Washington Post where she oversaw national politics, national security, and health, science + environmental coverage. In 2013, she was the lead editor overseeing coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She joins Ashley to talk about her career, from the newsroom to working as an executive at Meta, integrity within the news and media and the varied intersecting areas of her life.

You can connect with Anne on Linkedin.

Links to topics mentioned by Ashley and Anne in today’s episode:

• Substack, an online platform that provides publishing, payment, analytics, and design infrastructure to support subscription newsletters.
• Jessica Yellin on Instagram

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