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Solo Pod: My published books woke me up at 3 am with intel they wanted us to know . . .
Beautiful Writers Podcast - March 15, 2024 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsWhat happens when your dream comes true after years of work? What happens when that dream twists into what feels like a career-killing nightmare? In this episode, I'm telling the truth like never before—solo, my first in nine years—and it's the most real, vulnerable, and perhaps ill-advised sho...
Dr. Jody Carrington: Self-Pub Superstars, Part 2
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 24, 2023 20:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsI can't with this soulmate client. I'm pressed for words to share how much I love this woman, author, and communicator. I promise you've never met anyone like Dr. Jody Carrington. I call her Canada's Brené Brown (mixed with some Jerry Seinfeld), so that's close. But, well. Just see for yourself....
Hal Elrod: Self-Pub Superstars, Part 1 of 2
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 24, 2023 19:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsEver feel like you need a miracle to realize your big dreams? Let me introduce you to my miraculous client and friend Hal Elrod, author of The Miracle Morning: The Not So Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8 AM. With over 3.5 million books sold, you'd think he'd have started...
Jenny Lawson & Laura Belgray, TMI Queens: The Art of the Overshare
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 24, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsIt's open books all the way with these two TMI queens and their no-holds-barred, hilarious ways. They're the perfect duo to break my 6-month hiatus from the show. What a hoot to be back with three-time New York Times best-selling memoirist Jenny Lawson (Broken, Furiously Happy, and Let's Pretend...
Mark Manson: The subtle art of movie making & selling millions of books
Beautiful Writers Podcast - January 02, 2023 23:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsThree #1 New York Times bestsellers. Nearly twenty million books sold. One of the most popular self-development blogs in the world. What more could Mark Manson take on? As of this week, movie stardom. Suppose you're a fan of Mark'sThe Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (or his follow-up book, Eve...
How to Write a Book (& Actually Finish It!), a MarieTV Replay
Beautiful Writers Podcast - December 20, 2022 22:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsMarie Forleo is back on the show! HER show, actually. Say what? In a rare move for each of us, this is a replay of my recent appearance on MarieTV while touring for my latest book, Beautiful Writers. Since Marie and I LOVE this episode and 80% of the population say they want to write a book, we...
Pub Day Celebration! A Writer's Roundup w/ Martha Beck, Steven Pressfield, Elizabeth Lesser, & Aditi Khorana
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 23, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsIt's finally here! Pub Day for Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams & Messy Manuscripts—with Tricks of the Trade from Bestselling Authors. To celebrate this happy day, I invited a few of my fave writers to join me for a writer's roundup for good vibes as we talk about the things we did tha...
Zibby Owens & Silvia Vasquez-Lavado: Women on a Mission to Scale New Heights
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 16, 2022 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsNew York's # 1 book influencer, author, DAILY podcaster, and publisher, Zibby Owens, is here! Joining her is Peruvian mountaineer, humanitarian, and social entrepreneur, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, the first openly gay woman to climb Everest and all seven summits (who happens to be one of Zibby's fav...
Danielle LaPorte & Book Mama Pod Reunion, Post Deadline Truth Tellin’
Beautiful Writers Podcast - April 22, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsWe’ve missed you, Danielle LaPorte & me! Our season of book delivery kicked our asses. (How to Be Loving for Danielle and Beautiful Writers for me, both available now for preorder.) But that’s what it takes, often, to create our best work. So, since we know we’re not alone in this endeavor to le...
Patricia Cornwell & Tosca Lee: Thrilled to Death & Destiny
Beautiful Writers Podcast - October 31, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsSpooky smart. Miraculously mystical. Devilishly delightful. Listen in as two prolific bestselling thriller authors, Patricia Cornwell (over 100 million copies sold) and Tosca Lee (award-winning NYT bestseller), sweeten up our Halloween with this perfectly low-cal, high magic treat. And I'm not j...
Jenny Lawson & Martha Beck: Seriously Funny + Broken (in the best possible way)
Beautiful Writers Podcast - September 07, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsToday's a very good day! This Book Mama is giddyhappy. Since meeting Jenny Lawson over five years ago, I've ached to have her on the Beautiful Writers Podcast, and it's finally happened on this, my post-book-delivery return to the show. After taking months off, I couldn't be more excited to be b...
Elizabeth Gilbert & Marie Forleo: Behind the Bestsellers
Beautiful Writers Podcast - January 22, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratings"I'm glad I'm not competitive," Elizabeth Gilbert said when listing her dear friend Marie Forleo's assets and calling her a "quintuple threat" before adding how incredibly loyal, decent, and giant-hearted she is. It's with that kind of feel-good sisterhood that we kick off this first episode of ...
“Best-Of” Part 4 Episode
Beautiful Writers Podcast - December 31, 2020 02:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsIt's here—our 4th annual Beautiful Writers Podcast "Best-Of" episode! Just in time to save your creativity in the New Year from all that binge-watching and doomscrolling. It's been a year—2020 (hence why this Summer episode's dropping in Winter). I don't have to tell you what kind of havoc the p...
Tomi Adeyemi & Sabaa Tahir: YA Superstars on Living & Writing Heroically
Beautiful Writers Podcast - October 21, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsTwo of the top-selling YA Fantasy authors of ALL TIME give us a master class on earning, output, and living as epic a life as the stories they’re writing. On this fifth birthday of the Beautiful Writers Podcast, these #1 New York Times bestselling novelists—Nigerian-American Tomi Adeyemi (Childr...
Valarie Kaur & Chris Jackson: A World-Changer and Her Superhero Publisher
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 01, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsChris Jackson, legendary publisher and Editor-in-Chief of One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, is here with Valarie Kaur, one of his star authors—or, as he prefers to see his writers, who include Trevor Noah, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jay-Z, and Mira Jacob, “superheroes.” After all, changing t...
Valarie Kaur & Chris Jackson: A World-Changer and Her Superhero Publisher
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 01, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsChris Jackson, legendary publisher and Editor-in-Chief of One World, an imprint of Penguin Random House, is here with Valarie Kaur, one of his star authors—or, as he prefers to see his writers, who include Trevor Noah, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jay-Z, and Mira Jacob, “superheroes.” After all, changing t...
Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Patchett: Longings—In Writing & Life
Beautiful Writers Podcast - May 31, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsThe world feels like it’s exploding. With Covid-19 and anti-racism protests both raging through our streets, I had a sensitive, maybe even a bold question to ask Sue Monk Kidd and Ann Patchett, two longtime literary idols of mine. How are a couple of white women so audacious as to write books wh...
Dr. Jane Goodall & Keely Shaye Brosnan: Power of the Pen to Heal Mother Earth
Beautiful Writers Podcast - May 02, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsJane Goodall, Ph.D., DBE, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, and UN Messenger of Peace, is with us from the UK for a special eco-edition of the Beautiful Writers Podcast. I’m excited to celebrate the release of the Nat Geo film The Hope—showcasing Jane's lifetime of jaw-dropping conservation...
Joy Harjo: Poet Laureate of the United States
Beautiful Writers Podcast - March 31, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsIn THE interview of my life so far, Joy Harjo, Poet Laureate of the United States (the nation’s “official” poet!) is here. She’s the first Native American to hold this position, and I’ve been a weepy mess since she agreed to chat with us. As someone who lived on raw land in Northern New Mexico a...
Terry McMillan & Laura Munson: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Novelists
Beautiful Writers Podcast - March 01, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsThese New York Times bestselling authors on tour meet here for the first time. Laura Munson is promoting her first novel, Willa's Grove, while Terry McMillan is about to share with the world her tenth or eleventh novel, It's Not All Downhill from Here. (She doesn’t keep count—“They’re not like c...
Cheryl Strayed & Nia Vardalos: Answering the Biggest Questions that Stump Writers
Beautiful Writers Podcast - January 31, 2020 16:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsIn this “What would they do?” episode, I ask Oscar-nominated screenwriter, actress, & bestselling author Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Instant Mom) and #1 NYT bestselling memoirist and Oprah book club pick Cheryl Strayed (Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things) writing & career questions th...
Joel Stein: A Funnyman's Defense of Elitism
Beautiful Writers Podcast - December 09, 2019 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsHumor writer and journalist Joel Stein has kept me laughing for over twenty years with his brilliant columns in Time magazine, the LA Times, Entertainment Weekly, and more. With his hilarious and insightful new book, In Defense of Elitism: Why I'm Better Than You and You are Better Than Someone ...
Anita Moorjani & Kelly Noonan Gores: Miraculous Healing
Beautiful Writers Podcast - October 30, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsWhat's it take to make a story go viral? Global? To top the charts as word-of-mouth carries your tale far and wide—for days, months, or even years? There's no one formula. But certain things help stack the odds in your favor. Like novelty (a unique idea). Grabbiness (where your reader is instant...
Dani Shapiro & Gabby Bernstein: Divine Duo
Beautiful Writers Podcast - October 01, 2019 03:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsBestselling besties, Dani Shapiro & Gabby Bernstein, are all over the media with their current bestsellers, Inheritance and Super Attractor. Perhaps you’ve heard them here, on past episodes for prior books. But what you’ve never before witnessed is the two of them TOGETHER. Despite their close f...
Deepak Chopra & Arielle Ford: Metahuman & Infinite Creativity
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 30, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsHe’s authored 90 books. A Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Teaches meditation (with Oprah!). Been a husband for 49 years. A devoted father and grandfather. And he's beloved by Lady Gaga. So, other than his daily coffee, yoga, and more cushion time (“Om”) than a geriatric dog, what ...
Deepak Chopra: Metahuman & Infinite Creativity
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 30, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsHe’s authored 90 books. A Fellow of the American College of Physicians. Teaches meditation (with Oprah!). Been a husband for 49 years. A devoted father and grandfather. And he's beloved by Lady Gaga. So, other than his daily coffee, yoga, and more cushion time (“Om”) than a geriatric dog, what ...
“Best-Of" Part 3 Episode
Beautiful Writers Podcast - August 02, 2019 02:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsHello, beautiful writer! This is my favorite time of year—when I get to dive back into past episodes of the #BeautifulWritersPodcast and release our annual “Best-Of” show. (We’re on #3, in case you’ve been keeping track.) I’ve had a blast curating a wide variety of my favorite clips from summer ...
Catherine Oxenberg: Rambo Princess Diaries
Beautiful Writers Podcast - June 30, 2019 17:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsGuilty on all counts! For a mom fighting to take down a terrifying cult and free her daughter, India, there are no sweeter words. Just last week, mother, actress, royal, and first-time author Catherine Oxenberg saw the fulfillment of her years-long campaign to stop Keith Raniere and his organiza...
Meg Wolitzer: Blockbuster Novelist
Beautiful Writers Podcast - May 31, 2019 22:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsAcclaimed bestseller Meg Wolitzer joins me today on the Beautiful Writers Podcast! Her TWELFTH novel, The Female Persuasion, is now out in paperback—a story perhaps even more relevant today than when it was released in hardback. When Meg started writing the manuscript, she, like many of us, beli...
Abby Wambach: Wisdom from the Wolfpack
Beautiful Writers Podcast - April 30, 2019 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 550 ratingsYou know Abby Wambach as a soccer legend—a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist. But do you know how she makes all those countless travel hours on the road and in the air, less grueling and more grounded? You know Abby as a two-time New York Times bestseller. But do you know how she and her wife, best...
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