Gateless Academy Luminary Spotlight

About the Session

Farnoosh Torabi wrote her latest book A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career and Win at Life (Atria Books, 2023), Gateless-style and when we sat down to talk about why the process worked, she said, “well, it saved me years of therapy!”  

In fact, Farnoosh has saved all of us Gateless Writers a TON of therapy with her incredible insight into fear and money. And that insight extends into the world. 

She is no stranger to high-profile appearances on stages we all watch: Good Morning America, CNN, Dr. Oz, The View, and Live! with Kelly and Michael. She has a podcast with over 30 million downloads, and books that have been internationally acclaimed and hit the bestseller list.  

But is she fearless? Aaaah, no! 

Farnoosh was raised as a second gen to immigrant parents who, she explains in her fantastic book, were afraid of everything from eyebrow plucking to a pizza date. 

Because she couldn’t escape it, Farnoosh became an expert in fear. And if you have ever tried to create from the raw place of genius inside, you can rest assured that you will want to be an expert in it, too. Now’s your chance. 

On November 13, at 3:00 pm ET, Farnoosh—who is almost impossible to get any kind of personal audience with—will be a guest in the Fall Academy Luminary Series. She’s going to not only talk about how to navigate the inevitable fear of creating a book but also? $$$$. She’s an expert on it so, why not?  

From FOMO, to what to tell yourself when you feel like money is flying away from you as you make a commitment to write, Farnoosh can discuss it all.

Farnoosh Torabi’s book A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career, and Win at Life is REQUIRED READING for the Gateless Academy. Please order it HERE.

About Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi is a multi-bestselling financial author, former CNBC host and creator of the Webby-winning podcast So Money. Farnoosh has become one of the country’s favorite go-to money experts.

The New York Times calls her advice, “perfectly practical.”

Her latest book A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career and Win at Life has been a huge success because of the incredible abundance of information she gives addressing how to surpass those fears that can feel debilitating until you understand how to work with them. 

Farnoosh’s critically acclaimed podcast, So Money, has surpassed 35 million downloads, thanks to its one-of-a-kind interviews and deep conversations about money. On the show Farnoosh spotlights leading experts, authors and influencers from Arianna Huffington to Margaret Cho, Queen Latifah and Tim Gunn—about their financial perspectives, money failures and habits. She also answers listeners’ personal financial questions each week.

Farnoosh is a sought-after writer and thought leader who has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Time, Marie Claire, Glamour, Redbook and USA Today.

Farnoosh resides happily in Montclair, New Jersey with her husband and two children.

In her insightful and humorous way, Farnoosh gives fear a much-needed rebrand. As someone who’s no stranger to anxiety, this book is a game-changer. ~ Kelly Ripa, NYT bestselling author of Live Wire

About Suzanne Kingsbury, Founder, Gateless Writing 

Suzanne Kingsbury is the founder of Gateless Writing, a worldwide literary arts organization based on the principles of ancient Zen and creative brain science. Gateless Retreats, the Gateless Academy, the Gateless Teacher Training and her personal mentorship have been catalysts for writers who have found themselves on bestseller lists, represented by New York’s most coveted literary agencies, acquired by the bastions of publishing and profiled by the largest media outlets in the world.

Suzanne was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in her mid-twenties to study Buddhism in Sri Lanka, where she found the link between meditation, creative writing and neuroplasticity. In her late twenties, Suzanne was invited to study novel writing with Frank Conroy, then the director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, who encouraged her to quit her job and commit her life to writing. She went on to win the Oxford Town Fiction Prize, and her first two novels were published by Scribner, reached bestseller status, were translated widely abroad and optioned for film.

Suzanne received her MFA in Creative Writing and the Literary Arts at Bennington College where she studied the confluence of ancient Zen and creative brain science and created Gateless Writing, a method and a movement that pushes through creative blocks to a landscape of unprecedented creative genius, and helps writers reach the zenith of their power on the page. Suzanne’s work has been profiled in The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone (European edition), People Magazine, O Magazine, Ms. Magazine and many more.

She lives and works on the coast of Connecticut and runs Gateless Teacher Trainings and Retreats for writers all over the world. She considers her home anywhere that Gateless writers live and write.