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S2 E61: Jen Waite, Author of A Beautiful, Terrible Thing
This Is the Author
English - July 11, 2017 13:11 - 5 minutes - 1.35 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsArts business entrepreneur entrepreneurship marketing health finance leadership entrepreneurs interview fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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"It is about basically finding an email when my daughter was three weeks old that led me to the discovery that my husband was not who I thought he was. And showing the really perfect fairy tale 'before' aspects of our relationship and then the 'after' parts, where I’m just uncovering lie after lie and kind of unraveling this double life he had been living. I wrote my book because I actually didn’t feel like I had a choice not to. It kind of wrote itself in four months and it felt like I was writing to survive."