Official Bio
For the last 15 years, Jonathon M. Seidl (Jon) has been telling stories. In fact he’s written over 10,000 of them, first after helping start the top-50 news site TheBlaze in 2010, then as the editor-in-chief of the popular non-profit I Am Second. He writes, speaks, and consults on the power of storytelling, radical vulnerability, faith, mental health, and addiction. In fact, in 2024 he revealed his struggle with alcohol and explained how he was a Christian who became an alcoholic, not the other way around. His personal story—from spiraling into addiction to how he climbed out of it— is the focus of his next book, “Confessions of a Christian Alcoholic,” slated for release in the fall of 2025.
His previous book on anxiety, “Finding Rest,” instantly became a #1 Amazon bestseller, topping the charts in several categories like anxieties and phobias, mood disorders, and obsessive compulsive disorder. In fact, it shot up to become the #17 new release on all of Amazon and became a top 100 bestseller on all of Amazon as well.
Jon has seen how the power of storytelling and radical vulnerability can transform people, businesses, and culture, especially after sharing his own story of battling anxiety and OCD. His passion is to help people with mental health struggles, while also sharing what he’s learned telling stories for—and working with—some of media’s biggest names and organizations, including Arthur Brooks, Glenn Beck, Kirk Cameron, and Chip and Joanna Gaines.
In addition to his writing, he consults businesses, leaders, and non-profits on how to tell their story through his digital media and content creation company The Veritas Creative, as well as runs a daily devotional called The Veritas Daily. Originally from Wisconsin, he lives in Dallas, TX, with his wife, Brett, and his young children, Annie and Jack.
“Your writing changed the course of our lives and marriage. We were finally able to identify what was causing so many problems.”