How Women Write

When Cara Chace was a teenager sitting in a Denny's with her dad, she told him, "I want to be a writer."

He shot it down before she could finish her Grand Slam. How on earth would she make a living doing that?

It took her 30 years to come back around. Today, she calls herself a writer.

In between, Cara became a federal special agent, then the social media manager for Megadeth, and then founded a digital marketing agency. She knows how to do social media well — except it made her sick.

After three years of healing, she took a two-week break over the holidays in 2025 and felt better than she had in years. The day she switched back into content calendars and platform strategy, however, her body reacted to everything she ate.

That was the spark for her book The Social Media Burnout Cure, out now.

In this conversation, we talk about what happens when you catch yourself composing a caption in your brain in the middle of a moment where real life is happening. Cara's answer to what to do with "caption brain" is so simple it gave me goosebumps: don't post it. Put it in a Google Doc. And that's exactly how she wrote her book — in just three months.

The best parts? She did it without burning out and says that the process was the easiest thing she's ever done.

You'll hear how she mined 10 years of her own blogs and talks for material she didn't know she'd already written, why she works from a "morning menu" instead of a word count or to-do list, and why she fired her first cover designer even with a deadline looming. Plus — her favorite Megadeth song and what's in her mug when she writes. You know, all the things we writers want to know.

If you've ever said "If it weren't for my business, I'd never be on social media again," this one's for you.

• Thinking in captions? Write it down instead. Every time a gold nugget bubbled up, Cara put it in a messy working Google Doc instead of an Instagram reel or story.

• Mine your own archive. A decade of blogs, talks, and course scripts delivered more of her book content than she expected. She'd been circling this theme for years.

• Try a morning menu, not a checklist. Cara rebels against her own routines, so she lets each morning decide for itself based on her season, her cycle, and what feels right that day.

• The hard part isn't always the writing. For Cara, the messy middle was organizing everything. And the moment she thought she was done, she realized she had half a book. A moment so many authors can relate to.

• Trust your gut, even with a deadline. She knew right away her first cover designer wasn't a fit. This time, she didn't let sunk cost make the call.

• Writing how you speak takes repetition. Readers tell Cara they can hear her voice on the page. That came from 10 years of blogging, emails, and scripting.

• Signposts, not stages. You don't have to delete your social media profiles. Set them up to point people to where you actually show up — your email list, your podcast — and post when you have something to say.

• The Instagram experiment. Cara stopped posting to her feed in January. By March, her website traffic from Instagram hadn't dropped — and her engagement went up.

Cara Chace is an author and burnout coach helping women entrepreneurs build sustainable, anti-hustle businesses without trashing their nervous systems.

She built what she wishes she'd had when she burned out — when the planners, the productivity hacks, and the color-coded calendars left her more exhausted, more behind, and more resentful than when she started. Through Chaos Detox, her signature course, and her forthcoming book on social media burnout, Cara teaches women how to stop white-knuckling their way through the week and start building a business that fits the life they're actually living.

She's the host of the Ditch the Chaos podcast, a 10-year entrepreneur, and a former Special Agent. She lives in Idaho with her family and runs her business with margin, intention, and a deep aversion to hustle culture.

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00:00 Welcome And Cara Chace Intro

01:32 Authors And Social Media

02:35 Early Writing Roots

03:47 Denny's Dream Detour

05:58 Becoming A Writer Again

08:02 From Anthropology To Special Agent

09:57 Burnout And Career Pivot

13:23 Agency Life And Health Crash

17:34 Marketing Mode Trigger

21:20 Social Media Colonized Brain

22:39 Spark And Writing The Book

24:46 Capture Ideas In Google Docs

26:25 Escape the Algorithm Trap

26:41 Reclaim Stillness and Autonomy

28:32 How the Book Began

29:48 Messy Middle and Structure

31:24 Writing Without Routines

33:50 Trusting Intuition in Publishing

35:36 Why the Draft Came Quickly

37:58 Metalhead Detour and Focus

39:36 Writing Soundtrack and Coffee

41:44 Signposts Not Stages Strategy

43:47 Instagram Experiment and Wrap Up

It's my birthday, so I'm doing something a little different. There's no guest today, just me, some gifted Tom Ford Lost Cherry perfume I just spritzed on, me, my mic, and a mascara-free, honest catch-up.

You'll hear how I'm spending the day, what this year actually felt like, and the decisions I've made that I'm sharing out loud with you today. You're hearing them here first.

I walked away from some things with no regrets, and even though I'm nervous, I'm saying yes to some others. And much of it is thanks to a single book that I haven't even finished yet.

You'll also hear about how I started books five and six, but book seven was actually next. And I'm not writing it for my business. I'm following God's lead. Which doesn't fit neatly into any kind of book marketing funnel.

If you're a woman writing something that lights you up, this one's for you.

• Choosing a path on purpose means naming what you're letting go of, not only what you're adding.

• Some books don't fit the funnel. Write them anyway.

• Walking away from work you're good at can be the right move.

• You can teach writing and still be a student of it.

• A milestone is a good excuse to ask what you thought you were walking toward and what showed up instead.

• Say the risky thing out loud. It's usually the thing someone else needed to hear.

A question for you: What are you writing, or avoiding writing, right now? Send me a message at hi [at] jacquelinefisch.com. I read every one (except if you write the whole thing with Claude … I talk about that too).

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00:00 Birthday Intro and Astrology

01:16 How I'm Celebrating Today

02:54 Year in Review Milestones

03:38 Studio Evolution and Curriculum

06:19 Writing Books in Public

07:29 The Billet Season Story

10:35 Teaching Wins and Networking Lessons

13:12 In-Person Connection in the AI Age

16:24 Birthday Wishes and a Life-Changing Book

19:44 Free Threshold Session and Living Draft

25:15 Wrap-Up and Stay in Touch

There's a particular kind of ache that doesn't show up on the outside. You're doing everything right, checking all the boxes with a solid career and a great-looking life. But under the surface, something is off. It's like your current life no longer fits.

That's the ache Liz Holtzinger shares with readers in her book Lead Yourself First. Liz spent over two decades teaching rhetoric and composition at Penn State when, on her 50th birthday, she woke up with COVID. She ended up spending this milestone birthday snuggledup alone, under a blanket, and asking herself the big questions she'd been avoiding. What came out of that year was a Substack, started for just one paying subscriber, which eventually became her book.

In this conversation, we talk about the chapter she struggled with most. The chapter asked her to look at her past and name something as abuse for the first time. We talk about writing in public before you know what you're building, which I know is what so many writers are bravely doing. We also talk about her Leadership Compass framework, built on clarity, alignment, presence, and truth — the same four words she used to teach her students and used to find her own way back to herself.

If you've built something that looks right and feels off, this one's for you.

• The 50th birthday that cracked everything open and sparked what would become her first book

• Why Liz wrote the book as a Substack first — for an audience of one

• The chapter she almost couldn't write

• Her Leadership Compass framework: clarity, alignment, presence, truth

• Why she believes most of us aren't lost — just disconnected from our own judgment

• The one chapter she wants you to read if you only have time for one

Liz Holtzinger is a writer, professor, entrepreneur, and author of Lead Yourself First. Her work explores what happens when the life you've built no longer fits—and how to find your way back to yourself without blowing everything up and starting over.

Drawing on more than two decades of teaching, leadership experience, and her own journey through burnout, self-neglect, and personal transition, Liz challenges the idea that people need constant reinvention. Instead, she believes most of us are searching for something we've lost: trust in our own judgment, values, and inner voice.

Liz speaks on self-leadership, identity, burnout, communication, and the pressure to perform in modern life. Her approach is grounded, honest, and practical, helping people move from exhaustion and uncertainty toward greater clarity and alignment.

• Liz's website: https://lizholtzinger.com/

• Liz's book on Amazon: Lead Yourself First: Return to Yourself and Lead from Alignment, Presence, and Truth

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00:00 Meet Liz Holzinger

01:35 Books and Childhood Reading

03:13 Early Writing Confidence

05:02 Publishing Dreams and Rejection

06:00 Accidental Path to Teaching

09:30 Penn State Breakthrough

11:00 Lead Yourself First Spark

14:04 Writing in Public on Substack

17:51 Hardest Chapter to Write

22:37 Identity and Chapter Five

26:36 New Projects and Poetry

28:24 Writing Drinks and Journaling

30:56 Substack Bonus and Farewell

My guest today is a fellow INFJ who built a writing and business empire from her keyboard — and she did it by trusting her intuition over anyone's idea of what a "proper" writer looks like. As Joanna Penn, she writes practical, generous nonfiction that has made The Creative Penn one of the most trusted resources for authors in the world. It's my favorite podcast on the craft and business of writing!

As J.F. Penn, she writes dark thrillers built on copious research, religious relics, anatomy, museums, and graveyards … and her body of work is seriously impressive, with over 40 books and over a million copies sold in 176 countries. Instead of picking a lane (or genre), she built a business and a creative life that deliver both.

Joanna's been one of the most thoughtful, AI-positive voices in the author space, and I truly appreciate it. Most importantly, she is clear on her author voice and is genuinely working through what the technology means for writers. She calls herself an "AI-assisted artisan author," and I want to be clear about what that does and doesn't mean: this isn't a label for the last twenty years of her career or that she's cranking out books written by AI. No. It's how she's naming the next chapter in her career. AI has changed how she researches, plans, and runs the business around the words — and she's refreshingly honest and optimistic about where that line sits.

We talked about the teacher who told her at eleven to "write something nice" — and how long it took to write her way back to the dark stuff she actually loved. We talked about her fifth novel, the one where she finally stopped censoring herself and found her real voice. We also talked about why fiction and nonfiction ask completely different things of her, how her intuition tells her which book to write next, and what it looks like to bring AI into an established creative life without losing an ounce of what makes her sound like her.

If any part of you has been waiting for permission to trust what you already know and start — this is it.

• Intuition can be your business strategy, not just your creative process. Joanna describes an "intuitive sense" of what book she needs to write next — and she listens to it, even when the entrepreneur in her has a more strategic idea.

• You don't have to choose one creative identity. You can build a system that holds many. Joanna writes practical nonfiction as Joanna Penn and fiction as J.F. Penn. They're two different creative muscles, each with its own time block, energy, and audience.

• Your "real" voice might not show up until book five. Joanna didn't find hers until Desecration, her fifth novel — where she stopped writing what she thought a "proper" book should be and focused on writing what she truly loved. If your first book doesn't feel like you yet — keep writing.

• Fiction and nonfiction require different kinds of energy. She describes fiction as decision-fatigue-heavy, every character choice a choice, while nonfiction pours out because she already knows it.

• Being an author-entrepreneur means diversifying, not compromising. Between book royalties, podcast ads, and a Patreon, Joanna built multiple income streams around her writing instead of relying on one book to carry her whole business.

• Joanna Penn's website: thecreativepenn.com

• Joanna's podcast: The Creative Penn Podcast

• Fiction Books at J.F. Penn.com

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00:00 Meet Joanna Penn

01:35 Bookish Childhood Roots

03:30 The Wound and Shadow

05:20 Leaving IT for Writing

09:01 Author Entrepreneur Income

11:58 First Book Hard Lessons

16:51 Breaking into Fiction

20:57 Relics Research and Readers

23:22 Spiritual Seeking and Writing

26:05 Fiction Burnout Reset

29:06 Urgent Book Pull

31:38 Time Blocking System

34:19 Energy And Flexibility

36:00 Rituals And Real Work

38:13 Finding Author Voice

40:47 AI-Assisted Author

46:14 Recharging And Drinks

48:52 Five Minute Start

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being good at fitting in. Nicole Stephenson knows this feeling well. She spent years being told she was "too loud," "too much," "too honest." Then she wrote a book about what happens when you finally stop apologizing for being yourself.

Nicole is the founder of Narrativa Consulting, a part-time lecturer at The Wharton School, and the author of Unapologetic: Boldly Lead the Life and Career You Deserve. In this conversation, we talk about the ten years she spent running a private women's mentorship program and what she noticed about what actually made those women succeed (spoiler: it wasn't the sales scripts).

We get into her three-year book-writing process, why she hired a book coach, and the financial gut-check that almost stopped her from publishing at all. She also shares how the book found its way to a complete stranger in New York — and what that phone call taught her about why she does this work.

If you've ever been told you were too loud or too much, this one's for you.

• The moment Nicole realized the things people told her to keep quiet were the things closing her sales

• What ten years of mentoring women taught her about what actually builds confidence

• How a 40-day writing challenge (over Lent), left the book sitting in a draft folder

• Why she turned down ghostwriting and insisted the book be in her own voice

• The real cost of writing a book — money, momentum, and nearly walking away before publishing

• Why she launched the book on her 40th birthday (and how she celebrated both)

• Website: narrativaconsulting.com

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nicole-stephenson

• Instagram: @_nicole_stephenson

• Book: Unapologetic: Boldly Lead the Life and Career You Deserve

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00:00 Why Fitting In Exhausts Us

01:13 Nicole's Career Wake Up

01:57 Owning Bold Authenticity

05:21 The Promotion Lunch Pivot

07:16 Spark Behind Unapologetic

09:22 Community And Accountability

12:31 How She Actually Wrote It

14:36 Book Coach And New Outline

19:25 Staying True To Your Voice

21:43 Writer's Block And Life Shifts

22:40 Burnout And Doubt

23:28 Publisher Sticker Shock

24:04 Committing To Finish

24:23 Finding The Right Publisher

25:02 Momentum Lost And Lessons

26:02 Launching On 40th Birthday

28:05 Starting Narrativa LLC

30:39 Book Launching And A Basic Website

32:56 Strangers Respond To The Book

36:46 Reach Out To Creators

38:27 Advice For Aspiring Authors

40:02 Coffee Vs Tea Rituals

41:43 Closing Thanks

WOOOHOOO! How Women Write is celebrating ONE HUNDRED episodes.

On one hand, I don't know where the time went. And on the other, I wondered why it took me two years to launch the podcast. I didn't know how far I'd make it when I started, and I'm not stopping anytime soon.

Three digits of podcast episodes feel special, so it's just me here today to honor it.

In this episode, I'm sharing some of my biggest lessons about writing, what guests taught me, running this show, being a host, and what's coming next.

What I've learned:

• Writing while criticizing yourself doesn't get easier — you just get better at continuing anyway

• You don't need permission to call yourself a writer

• The story you're avoiding is usually the one people need to hear

• How rotating guest weeks with solo weeks keeps my energy strong

• What makes someone a great podcast guest (hint: it's not a perfect pitch)

• What surprised me most about starting this show in the first place

• Why I stopped chasing content plans and started following my energy instead

Plus — what's next inside The Intuitive Writing Studio. We're kicking off a brand-new year-long curriculum tied to the astrological seasons, starting with Virgo season on September 8th. If you've got a book in you, this is where you build it.

Thank you for being here with me. Truly.

xx

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Leslie Short has lived about four careers' worth of life — classical dancer, theater owner in Japan, FUBU executive, culture strategist, chaplain, UN speaker — and for years, people kept telling her the same thing after every talk: I need to know more.

Her new memoir, Someone Has to Be the First, is her response to people wanting to know more.

In this conversation, we get into what it actually took to write it — including the false start she pulled the plug on because she couldn't hear herself in the writing, the publisher who told her to skip the outline and "just write," and the moment when early editing notes made her close her laptop and walk away for a day.

One of my favorite parts is hearing about how Leslie printed out all her LinkedIn posts, old-school style, and began arranging the content into a book.

• The seven-year-old moment she now sees as the beginning of the whole story (it also gave me a good laugh)

• Why she turned down a book deal the first time, because the writer kept slipping into corporate voice instead of hers

• How she built her first book's outline out of printed social media posts, laid out on the floor

• The pull between writing another leadership book and finally writing the memoir

• Her simple and beautiful writing routine: Sunday mornings, Amtrak trains, and no Wi-Fi

• What she'd say to the woman who has a story she keeps not writing

If you've got a life that feels too big to fit into one book, or a story you've been saying that you'll "get to one day" — this one's for you.

Leslie Short is the founder of The CAVU Group, a two-time author, and accessibility officer for major television and film award shows. She has spent decades walking into rooms where she was not expected and making herself at home.

She's a chaplain, activist, certified mental health aide, certified mediator, and conflict and transformational coach. She's a keynote speaker at United Nations and European Union events around the world.

Her story starts as a professional dancer who lived outside the US for over 13 years across various countries. She opened a theater in Japan — which was rated the best business in the country in 1994. She went on to serve as President of Marketing, Advertising & PR at FUBU.

Her books: Expand Beyond Your Current Culture (her first) and her new memoir, Someone Has to Be the First, released May 5, 2026 — tracing a life built on fearless decisions, from dancing across Europe to building Japan's first male revue show, to advising CEOs and championing inclusion in corporate America.

Natural overlaps with your audience: women who wrote a book as part of a bigger mission, the cost of waiting for permission, showing up fully in rooms that weren't built for you, writing from lived experience rather than credentials.

• Leslie's website: thecavugroup.com

• Someone Has to Be the First on Amazon

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00:00 Meet Leslie Short

01:07 Someone Has to Be First

02:41 First Book Origin Story

04:04 Finding the Right Publisher

06:12 Book Outlining From Social Posts

09:25 Writing and Editing Flow

11:56 Why a Memoir Now

13:35 Memoir Shaping and Cuts

17:12 Writing Routines and Deadlines

20:17 Memoir Boundaries and Privacy

21:56 Reader Reactions and New Doors

24:58 Advice Just Write

27:12 What's Next for Leslie

If you've ever been mid-draft on one project and had another idea knock — loud, insistent, inconvenient — this episode is for you.

Two weeks into writing The Medicine Pages — the working title of the book I've been sharing behind the scenes on my paid Substack — I got a date on the calendar. My son, newly 18, is heading back up north for another hockey season, living with a billet family again. And something in me knew before I did: the medicine book needed to pause.

In this episode, I talk about:

• The door metaphor I use with students when they're stuck choosing between writing projects — and why walking fully through one door (even not the "best" one) is how you find out if it's the best one … for you

• Why I'm setting the medicine book down for now, and trusting that the detour will make it stronger

• The new book I didn't see coming — a very specific, time-bound book about billeting, written for moms preparing to send a teenager to live with another family for their sport

• How I'm using AI in this process (organizing, not writing) to turn a folder of old text messages and essays into a working table of contents

• Why I think it's okay to have more than one writing project pulling at you at once — and how to know which one gets your YES right now

You don't have to pick the "right" project. There's only the one that's most aligned for right now.

• The Medicine Pages (paid Substack, $5/month)

• Past essays on billeting & hockey life:

  • Parking to One Side of the Driveway

  • Road Trip Reflections

  • Clanks of Change: A Hockey Mom Story

• The Intuitive Writing Studio

Got a writing project pulling at you? Email me at [email protected] and tell me how it's going — I'd love to hear.

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Claire Gallagher was here back in episode 15, where we chatted about Mercury, the SFD (The Surrendered First Draft), and the importance of moving her body to keep the words flowing.

Last year, she told me that she was working on a second book about how astrological cycles "wake up" different parts of your chart at different times.

That book is Cosmic Year, arrives on August 18, and it's available for preorder now. Today, you'll hear the story of how she wrote it. Spoiler: it was much easier than her last book!

She talks about how Body Astrology took three years and three full rewrites and Cosmic Year took just five months and a single draft. Claire walks through what changed: separating writing from editing for the first time, a stack of affirmation cards she read before every writing session, and the 45 interviews she conducted to pressure-test the technique before putting it in a book.

We also talk about why she removed the P word from her astrology business — predictions. She stopped doing predictive readings.

I'm really excited about the topic she's writing about next — Claire's current obsession is exploring fate and free will across cultures.

• Writing and editing are not the same thing — and this book proved it. Claire wrote Cosmic Year once, start to finish, with no rewrites. She credits separating drafting from editing — a skill she says was modeled for her in Jacqueline's writing studio — with turning what could've been a years-long project into five months.

• Cosmic Year took five months to write. Part of the difference in speed of this book was the subject matter — this technique is 2,000 years old, and not something she invented from scratch. Most of the writing shift was in her mindset. Claire let herself flow on the page instead of critiquing every sentence as it landed.

• Affirmation cards replaced perfectionism. Before every writing session, Claire read handwritten affirmations off note cards — a writing ritual born from not wanting this book's story to look like her last one.

• She wrote Cosmic Year for the person she used to be. Fifteen years ago, before astrology found her, Claire spent years blaming the moon for every bad mood. Cosmic Year is written for that version of her, and for anyone who's taken their astrology obsession into fear.

• Presence over prediction in astrology. While researching this book, Claire stopped offering predictive readings.

The research has already moved on. With Cosmic Year out in the world,

Claire Gallagher has been a professional astrologer for over eleven years. With a focus on presence instead of predictions, Claire uses astrology to help people feel better today instead of future-tripping about tomorrow. Whether she's doing a reading, moving with the moon, or teaching planetary journaling, Claire's mission is to help others hear and follow their inner wisdom. She's the author of Cosmic Year and Body Astrology, and the host of the podcast I Talk to Planets.

• Claire's website: astrologywithclaire.com

• Book: Cosmic Year — join the pre-order book club at astrologywithclaire.com/bookclub

• Book: Body Astrology: A Cosmic Guide to Health, Healing, and Harnessing the Power of the Planets

• Podcast: I Talk to Planets

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00:00 Welcome Back Claire

01:27 What Is Cosmic Year

02:39 Time Lords Origins

04:38 Writing Process Shift

07:38 Rituals, Mindset, Self-Trust

10:00 Book Interviews And Anecdotes

11:33 Living Your Time Lord

13:34 Presence Over Prediction in Astrology

15:39 Who The Book Is For

19:41 Book Club And Bonuses

21:02 Next Writing Project: Fate

24:42 Nodes And Destiny

27:09 Coffee Callback Farewell

When I met Hazel at a networking event, she introduced herself as a photographer. When I checked out her website, I learned she did so much more. Two books, workshops, and a whimsical yet practical outlook on life, parenting, and creativity … I had to get to know her!

Hazel didn't set out to write the books she wrote. Her original idea was something different entirely. And when she sat down to create, the book came through and landed in Canva.

Hazel is a creative entrepreneur who has built and rebranded multiple businesses — most recently The Hazel Honey Club — carrying her audience through every pivot by building a brand around herself, not just a single product. She speaks on personal branding and creative healing, grounded in her own journey of finding herself again and again through her work. She is continuously creating what is in utmost alignment with her higher self.

In this conversation, we talk about:

• Why she tells stuck writers to stop looking for inspiration and go read their own old blog posts, social media archive, or camera roll instead

• How her guided journal, Honor and Release, and her children's book, My Mom's a Hippie, poured out of her at almost the same time — no draft, straight into Canva

• Why she's not a "wake up and journal every morning" person — and why that's perfect

• What it actually looks like to write in flow, and why forcing a "good day" almost never works

• The two books she's working on next — a poetry collection and a memoir about moving through toxic relationships to come home to herself

• Her go-to reset when she's stuck: shake it out, look in the mirror, and create something completely different than what you think you're supposed to make

If you've ever felt like you need permission to write it messy, out of order, from your notes app — this one's for you.

• Website: www.thehazelhoneyclub.com

• Instagram: @thehazelhoneyclub

• Books:

  • Honor and Release: A Prompted Journal That Allows You to Move Through Your Emotions

  • My Moms a Hippie: rituals for parent and toddler based around natural remedies, the moon cycle, and peace

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00:00 Meet Hazel

01:35 Creative Roots and Photography

04:05 Books and Blogging Beginnings

08:22 Writing Two Books at Once

10:06 My Mom's a Hippie Rituals

13:40 Dancing in the Rain

17:19 Creating in Canva Flow

18:12 Honor and Release Journal

21:15 Journal Origins

23:41 Guided Yet Free

24:52 Build It In Canva

28:39 Next Books Ahead

32:18 Find Inspiration Outside

35:00 Break Creative Blocks

39:44 Workshops And Community

41:15 Favorite Writing Drinks

41:52 Closing Thanks