We talk a lot on this podcast about how to navigate book pregnancy—but what do you do if you’re not yet pregnant with a book? We explore three situations that create this kind of experience and offer helpful, practical ideas for living into this reality.

In last week's episode, we talked conceptually about how to birth a book, with an emphasis on tending your book, your voice, and your audience. This week we get into the nitty-gritty—and a free checklist gets you started and is available for download.

We've asked if it's time for you to birth a book. Now let's talk about how to actually do it. In this episode, we cover the core concepts and milestones that go into birthing a book.

Is birthing a book for you? What are some of the markers that would tell you it might be time? What are the benefits of doing this? We break it all down—with examples—in this episode.

I hosted a community hashtag challenge on Instagram at the end of October—and learned so much! In this episode, I unpack how I did it and what I learned so you can apply it to your own community growth initiatives, whatever form they take.

Is there a relationship between visibility and vulnerability? How does showing up—becoming visible—in the world increase or diminish our experience of vulnerability? I polled those participating in my Instagram visibility challenge and gleaned five key things we can learn about the relationship between these two things.

It seems every day, a national or global event happens that sends everyone running and shouting in different directions. How do you, fledgling author that you are, show up in a world like this? How do these realities impact the communication of your message? Let's untangle the threads of these complex questions together.

Has some significant life event cropped up and affected your progress on your book? Has your energy for the book shifted, rendering it hard to keep going? Does life keep getting in the way? Let's talk about what to do when your book project just isn't going to plan.

We talk a lot about discernment, but what does it actually look like? How do you discern? What’s the process? In this episode, we look at five possible approaches to discernment—plus the helpful prep work that can ready you to discern.

Do this; do that. Don't do this; don't do that. So many rules! What's truly required when it comes to book pregnancy? Where do you have choices or the opportunity to discern your true invitations? In this episode, we unpack the realities of what's required and what's discerned in the experience of book pregnancy.