I’m Seth, your host.

There was a time in my life when I thought having a career was everything. Not simply a way to have a desirable lifestyle, but the very way I define myself. I thought I wanted money. I thought I wanted success. But what I was really searching for was more. I wanted to know that I mattered to the universe, even in some small way. And that I was worthy of love.

Achieving everything I thought I wanted did not bring a sense of fulfillment to life. It only brought more angst because I was out of touch with who I was at my core. Only being stripped down and made lean, first by going through an addiction and then through a spiritual awakening, could I come to see that the image I had of myself covered up deep insecurities I carried with me.

After I left Wall Street, I had a conversion experience which led me back to Christianity, but I still had many questions which caused me to leave it decades before. It seemed what I learned about the faith, and was still being led to believe, did not connect with the experience of being freed from addiction.

But once I found what is known as the contemplative path, the path of self- and God-awareness, I began to experience even deeper self-acceptance, humility, freedom and love. Through all this, I’ve found is that “who I am” is not equivalent to “what I do.”

This journey inspired me to create Soul Search as a space for others to tell their story too. You can read a bit more about mine here.