How to Write a Letter Someone Will Keep for Life | Lindsay Hurty

About this episode

There is a letter most of us keep meaning to write, and never do. Lindsay Hurty has spent her adult life writing the ones other people put off, and she makes a case that the part of a life we account for least carefully is the part that matters most. Lindsay is a Harvard-trained former high school English teacher who left the classroom for motherhood, started writing one line a day to her newborn daughter, and ended up building a practice around it. She co-founded Everwell, has designed and led more than 350 programs, and now helps people write legacy letters, launch letters, and life letters to the people they love. She came to this work through a story involving her eighth-grade math teacher, a mailbox, and a conversation that found her five years after he died. In this conversation, you’ll explore: • The five types of letters she teaches, and the one most people have never heard of until someone dies • What a dying teacher’s family learned about him from an envelope a 14-year-old left in their mailbox • The five-part structure that turns a blank page into something you can actually finish • Why the thing you write at the very end usually belongs at the beginning • The quest