Perfect Off Paper

A six-part serial podcast about borrowed stories, unexpected unravelings, and what happens when the life you're living no longer matches the story you're telling. Host Sara McElroy, former CMO and Wall Street Journal poster woman for pandemic career burnout, recounts her bold leap from corporate life and a collapsed book deal. As her health, finances, relationships, and home unravel, she confronts a truth she'd long avoided: somewhere between the life she was living and the story she told, parts of herself had gone missing. The podcast explores the idea that the truth of being human always exceeds the story we can tell about ourselves.