Building your Creative Life without Breaking the Bank

Join us for a Q&A session with Elizabeth Monier-Williams

Liz Gilbert writes in her book, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, that it’s irresponsible to immediately expect your art to pay for your life. Doing so puts undue pressure on efforts that need time, practice and luck to flourish.

But many of us feel called to live a life outside the lines of corporate culture. Is it possible to do both?

In this Q&A session, Elizabeth Monier-Williams (BA ’01) will share her winding, weird journey through start-up land and its ongoing intersections with her obsession for novel writing. “I can’t promise this talk will give you a guidepost to living your dreams, but it might make you think about how you can fold your creative obsessions into your day-to-day commitments,” says Elizabeth.

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Elizabeth Monier-Williams (BA ’01)

Elizabeth Monier-Williams graduated from the University of Waterloo in 2001 with a degree in Hons. Applied Studies and English Literature Co-op. Through communications and marketing roles within Toronto’s technology and research sectors, she’s helped brilliant people to tell their stories and market their ideas. As a fractional marketing executive, Elizabeth currently works with several startups to launch new products while preparing her first novel for publication in 2022. She lives in Toronto, Canada.