On this episode of Finding Your Bliss, Celebrity Interviewer and Bliss Coach Judy Librach is joined by Joanna Goodman, the owner of the premiere luxury bedding boutique, Au Lit Linens, and the national best selling author of 7 novels, including The Inheritance, Home For Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter.

The #1 national bestseller, The Home for Unwanted Girls, was on the Canadian bestseller list for more than six months. Joanna’s other novels include The Forgotten Daughter and The Finishing School, which were also national bestsellers. Her stories have appeared in The Fiddlehead, B & A Fiction, Event, The New Quarterly, and White Wall Review, as well as excerpted in Elisabeth Harvor’s fiction anthology, “A Room at the Heart of Things”. Originally from Montreal, Joanna now lives in Toronto with her husband and two children. And as just mentioned. Joanna is also the owner of the Toronto based linen store, Au Lit Linens . In 1981, Joanna’s mother Peggy Byron opened Boutique Au Lit in Montreal, one of the first bed linen shops in Canada to offer pure cotton sheets, instead of treated polyester. The store was an instant success, with people

lining up outside the 700-square-foot store. Soon Byron expanded the business to include a factory where she manufactured her own collection of linens. Fifteen years later, Byron moved the retail end of the business to Toronto, where she would eventually take over a store almost ten times the size of her original boutique! Sadly, Joanna’s mother Peggy Byron passed away in July of 2014. And Today, Joanna who has developed her own passion for design and fine linens - is running the family business along with her husband, Miguel. When they're not in Toronto, they're travelling throughout Europe and the U.S, sourcing the world's finest linens, planning and designing new collections, tweeting, blogging, creating and changing the way people sleep. Their new flagship store is located at 147 Tycos Drive in Toronto and the space is approximately 10,000 square feet with 40 showcase beds, each styled in different fabrics, textures, and design themes. There are also expanded departments for bath and bath accessories, loungewear, and the full bedding and

linen offering, including a dedicated Design Centre, allowing customers to explore fabrics, thread counts, and custom options.

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