Listen now! You know that saying about how most overnight successes are really just people who refuse to quit for like a decade? Every time I hear it, I think about my own story. I wrote a bunch of books before I got my first book published by a publisher. I had a couple that I really wanted to...
Listen now! Sometimes one lifetime isn’t enough to hold all the versions of who we become—especially for writers, or anyone who’s ever started over. I’ve been thinking about what happens when you cross an invisible border—geography, language, career—and suddenly the words you’ve always trusted go...
Listen now! One of my biggest pet peeves when I worked in Corporate America was without a doubt when some leader or HR person called the workplace a “family.” It was a story designed to keep people compliant—an illusion of belonging that disappeared the moment you stopped performing. It sounded...
Listen now! “Don't let somebody else tell you no until you've exhausted every avenue.” When I heard this advice from author Liz Alterman, I actually sat back in my chair. Because it’s So. True. In fact, it is the key to success in this author life—persistence, intuition and an almost ridiculous...
Listen now! When I signed with my first agent back in 2011, I really thought I’d made it. I had a contract, someone finally said yes to my work, and I figured from here on out, it would all just… flow. Write books, publish books, repeat. Easy, right? Yeah. No. That’s not how it works. Every...
Listen now! Warning: We’re getting a little (ok, a lot) woo woo in this episode. A few weeks ago, I tuned into an early morning live session on Insight Timer, my favorite meditation app. It was a mediumship reading with Gloria Battini, a transformational guide, spiritual teacher and empathic...
Listen now! Remember when you were a kid and heard all the family stories? I mean the official ones—the ones we heard over and over, the ones we had permission to retell. But we all know that there are other family stories—the ones that don’t get talked about. The things you suspected, or felt...
Listen now! The world feels pretty heavy for a lot of people right now. Women are no exception. Rights we thought were settled are suddenly negotiable. Language that should protect us gets twisted. Headlines read like history we swore we’d never repeat. When I heard about the book Counting...
