The creative and business mind behind the ever-growing https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books/id1366633318 (Mom's Don't Have Time) To empire- https://zibbyowens.com/ (Zibby Owens) talks with Michelle Redo for this special bonus episode conversation about podcasting, writing and her newest business-story venture- https://zibbyowens.com/zibby-books (Zibby Books).

https://www.pegconway.com/ (Peg Conway) shares two chapters from her new memoir called https://www.pegconway.com/the-art-of-reassembly/ (The Art of Reassembly: A Memoir of Early Mother Loss and Aftergrief)

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It's the season two debut! https://chriswoolfbooks.com/ (Author Chris Woolf) reads from his newly released memoir, https://chriswoolfbooks.com/#reviews-1 (Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush: A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan).

Life contains expletives, and so does this episode.

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A journey from Kabul, Afghanistan to the city of Taloqan in 1991 as told by Chris Woolf, former BBC journalist. This special bonus episode previews his conversation with Michelle Redo in advance of the release of his forthcoming memoir, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ87AItDQIE (Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush: A Memoir of Fear and Kindness in Afghanistan).

Stay tuned for a section from his book for the season two launch of Daring to Tell coming in November.

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Three essays to get you thinking about ways to prepare for Mother's Day...especially if it's a difficult holiday for you, including a virtual workshop/event featuring these three writers. It's https://www.robynpassowfisher.com/featured-in/mother-yourself-day (Mother (Yourself) Day).

Whether or not you still have your mother, and whether or not you are a mother, mothering ourselves isn't necessarily obvious or intuitive or demonstrated... that's why we've put together a 90 minute virtual workshop event to remind you about the mothering skills and practices we can all bring to our lives... in order be our best selves for everyone else.

More on https://www.pegconway.com/ (Peg Conway), https://www.robynpassowfisher.com/ (Robyn Fisher), and https://betsyarmstrong.com/ (Betsy Armstrong).

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In this season one finale, https://nadinekenneyjohnstone.com/ (Nadine Kenney Johnstone) steps in as guest host as Michelle reads her essay on moving to Maine, the discovery of an ancestral autobiography. Music credits for the series are the songs Make Me Brave and Nothing Like written, performed and produced by Phil Redo. Check out more of his music at https://philredo.bandcamp.com/ (Band Camp).

https://www.williamkenower.com/books.html (Fearless Writing) author https://www.williamkenower.com/ (William Kenower) talks about writing music as well as prose in this contemplation of some of the big topics and fears that face writers, creative types, and human beings.

He's also host of the https://www.williamkenower.com/author2author.html (Author2Author) podcast- great conversations with writers from all genres.

His new book, https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670042/everyone-has-what-it-takes-by-william-kenower/ (Everyone Has What It Takes) comes out in June of 2021.

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Sarah Malone reads a chapter from her memoir depicting a single night from early on in a thirteen year abusive relationship. Sarah talks candidly about the tenacity to get through day to day, as well as the lifelines she received by the way of positive feedback, kind words and success in the workplace when away from her home.

Sarah is on the Board of the YWCA Evanston-North Shore as well as a member with the https://www.thehotline.org (National Coalition Against Domestic Violence) in helping other women survive and thrive after domestic violence.

She is also President and Principle Consultant at https://my.captivate.fm/The%20Aldon%20Malone%20Group (The Aldon Malone Group) and can be contacted through https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-malone-phd-rodc-016234/ (Linked In).

Peg Conway's memoir https://www.pegconway.com/mother-loss-memoir/ (The Art of Reassembly) will come out later this year. And this is the link to her book group for https://www.pegconway.com/event-the-healing-power-of-stories/ (adults bereaved in childhood).

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Writer Frank Huyer is also an ER physician and reads a piece from his most recent book https://www.harpercollins.com/products/white-hot-light-frank-huyler?variant=32207367045154 (White Hot Light: Twenty Five Years in Emergency Medicine). It is a meditation on loneliness and a candid look both the coldness and kindness of humanity, not just in others but also within ourselves. This is an interview he did with https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-frank-huyler/ (Pen America) where he discusses the role of censorship in medicine during the Covid-19 pandemic that he touches on at the end of our conversation.