Lee Tilghman

Author, If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die

Lee Tilghman began blogging at seventeen with For the Love of Peanut Butter and later Lee From America, two early wellness blogs that helped shape the first wave of online lifestyle content. Her rise as one of the earliest wellness influencers brought both wide visibility, amassing several hundred thousand followers, and intense pressures around performance and perfection.

Over time, Lee chose to step back from the spotlight and began writing more candidly about the costs of influence. She has spoken openly about perfectionism, burnout, and the contradictions of wellness culture, becoming a thoughtful voice on what it means to live authentically in the age of social media.

Her debut memoir, If You Don’t Like This, I Will Die (Simon & Schuster, 2025), offers a raw and unflinching account of her years inside the influencer economy, tracing her journey of building @leefromamerica, losing herself in it, and ultimately reclaiming her life.

Lee is a perfect fit for this year’s theme of GROUND. A wildcard. In a sea of people working to make their name, she brings a completely different vantage point. Her story is not about transactions or production, but about the pressures of identity, performance, and the search for something solid beneath it all.

That perspective is exactly what makes her voice so vital at Worthshop. Lee has lived through the rise of influence, confronted its costs, and chosen to reclaim her ground. Her candor, self-awareness, and insistence on truth over polish mirror the conversations we hope to foster this year, conversations that cut through surface success and reach toward meaning.

L I N K S:

https://www.leetilghman.com

https://www.instagram.com/leefromamerica