Craig Siegel reflects on a dark period marked by a toxic breakup, a family health crisis, and career dissatisfaction. He talks about the importance of loving your work and how stress led him to drink more than usual.
A few things happen at once. I just got out of a toxic relationship, which I know now is happened for me, and it was great. And now I'm with my soulmate, my fiance and so forth. But you know how that is when you get out of a toxic relationship. It's never fun. And then also, my best friend, my dad, had just gotten diagnosed with cancer around the same time. He's still battling. My dad's no spring chicken. He's 89 years young, but there was just a bunch of things. And then you take the fact that I was waking up every day to go do something that I didn't really want to do. And for the audience listening, like, you better love what you do because you're going to spend about a third of your life in your career, another third probably sleeping, right? So it's so imperative that you're jazzed about what you do for a living. And I just wasn't. And so I think because of that and the outside stress that was coming in, I started drinking a lot more than I'd like to admit.