Patricia Crisafulli

About Patricia Crisafulli

Hi! My name is Patricia Crisafulli and I am an award-winning author with a New York Times Bestseller to my credit. A former business journalist with Reuters, I am the author of The House of Dimon: How JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon Rose to the Top of the Financial World, a NYT bestseller. I have been a guest on top-ranked podcasts and I've previously been featured on national media, including Fox News, Bloomberg, CNBC.com, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and more. After finding success as a finance author, I have shifted gears to pursuing my lifelong dream of mystery fiction! I went back to school and earned a master’s in fine arts (MFA) degree from Northwestern University, where I won the distinguished thesis award that became my first novel—and did so at age 52! My first novel, The Secrets of Ohnita Harbor, was published in September 2022 by Woodhall Press, now followed by The Secrets of Still Waters Chasm (publishing on September 5th, 2023).

Here are just a few topics that I'd be elated to cover in a podcast:

BURNOUT – And How My Passion for Fiction Saved Me: Burnout is so common these days. We’re all overwhelmed after years of intense work, with few breaks and vacations. Personally, I had a rapidly growing business, a cross-country move, a three-book deal, planning a wedding for my son, and my sister died, making me the long-distance guardian and care coordinator for her special needs daughter. Burned out!! But here’s the thing. I found that doing less was an impossibility. I needed to do more… of what I loved to recharge my battery. The creativity fuels my passion. So that’s my cure for burnout. Don’t try to turn it all off – turn on more of what feeds your soul.

GOING FOR YOUR DREAMS at any age: Going for your dreams at an age may not be unique—but my POV is! I had to learn to take criticism and face constant reinvention while still staying true to my dream. As I mentioned above, I had needed resilience—but also flexibility to “bounce” in a new direction after rejection. Going for your dreams means letting go—and seeing where it takes you. That’s hard in the “second act.” The fear is—I can’t reinvent…again. But that reinvention is grounded in experience, not just possibility. That’s where the real alchemy is—using the experience of life plus the possibilities that have not yet been explore to bring about reinvention.