A big congratulations to Writeway and The Real Story this week as a brand-new episode of the podcast officially drops for the 100th time!

Rea shakes things up on another solo episode of The Real Story this week with an exploratory examination of what’s ahead, tackling her own journey into and out of—and back into—the very intense hustle of mainstream publishing and the radical decision to once again bet on herself.

On this week’s episode of The Real Story, nobody is more excited than Rea that her guest on the mic is creative writing teacher and award-winning author of thrillers The Winter Sister and Behind the Red Door, Megan Collins.

On this week’s episode of The Real Story, the topic is: “Why?” Rea and Joe ask the question—of fellow writers, the community, listeners, and each other—why … why do we submit, why do we publish, and most importantly, why do we write?

WARNING: episode contains LOTS OF F**KS and GIVES NO F**CKS.

This week on The Real Story, Rea is elated to welcome Gianna Biscontini, a long-time client of Writeway, a board-certified behavioral analyst, an entrepreneur, and the author of the brand new book, F**kless: A Guide to Wild, Unencumbered Freedom, a definitive book to help women release and reprioritize the f**ks they’ve been given.

On the heels of sending a brand-new manuscript out for submission, for the first time since leaving her publisher, Rea finds herself once again wondering a very foundational question on the #PathToPublish: What do editors want? The answer, which she and Joe explore on this week’s episode of The Real Story is not very cut-and-dry.

Rea and Joe are back together on the mic for this latest episode of The Real Story and, this week, they are buuuuuuuuuuurnt oooooooooooout. But that doesn’t mean they aren't going to show up, though. It means they are going to talk all about it.

The Real Story has a special guest this week, talking about how to approach life with curiosity, continuing to ask fundamental and unique questions as you get older, and the probability of the existence of unicorns—it’s Rea’s nine year old daughter, Sophie Holguin!

The Real Story is back this week with a conversation between Rea and Joe inspired by a short episode from the Abraham Hicks podcast, Leading Edge. The seven-minute recording from an Esther Hicks workshop is a potent reminder that the lives we are living are in direct response to the stories we are telling ourselves.

This week on The Real Story, Rea reflects on a powerful Owaken meditation she recently participated in called “Take a Walk With Your Inner Child,” which led to some deeply healing work regarding her childhood. On this episode, she shares some incredibly personal details of past experiences—both good and bad—that have shaped who she is and how she operates.