About Reasons Not To Quit
Reasons Not To Quit is a podcast about persistence. Host Hanne Blank Boyd talks to featured guests about times they wanted to quit… and the reasons they found to keep going.
What does it mean “not to quit”? Lots of things.
Not quitting could mean not giving up on a dream. It could mean not quitting school. It could mean not committing suicide.
It could mean not quitting on trying to change the world, or getting your creative work in front of audiences, or doing all the things it takes to support your family day in and day out.
Not quitting could even mean quitting something specific--a job, a relationship--in the name of not quitting something bigger.
This project grew out of a solo project that I (your host, Hanne Blank Boyd) did from 2016 to 2022 on social media. During the six years that I did this project, I wrote and posted almost 2000 one-sentence #reasonsnottoquit and posted them, most often one per day, on social media.
The best part of that project was people’s reactions to it. The ways people reached out to tell me about their own Reasons Not To Quit changed how I thought about persistence and resilience.
Often, people’s stories gave me new Reasons Not To Quit that I’d never thought about before.
I wanted to share this experience. So I’ve decided to explore it in a new way.
About Hanne Blank Boyd
Dr. Hanne Blank Boyd is the author of numerous books (as Hanne Blank) and the creator and host of Reasons Not To Quit. Trained as a classical singer, and with a Ph.D. in history, she lives in a small town on the North Carolina coast with her husband, three dogs, two cats, and a bunch of sharks. A Midwesterner by upbringing and a Southerner by choice, she is deeply proud of the South’s long tradition of people who make what the late Rep. John Lewis called “good trouble.”
