Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 144 ft. Sarah Gormley

Brooke Warner

Sarah Gormley joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about unpacking the baggage of self-doubt and imposter syndrome and moving toward self-love, shaping our memoirs into answers to the questions we have about our life, prioritizing pieces and elements of our story that help show readers transformation, the messiness of mother-daughter relationships, including partners and family in our memoir narratives, cutting big chunks of our manuscripts out, themes as blueprints for our structure, trusting our body when we land somewhere right, realizing what our book is actually about, and her new memoir The Order of Things.

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Episode 252 ft. Rachel Weaver

Episode 252 ft. Rachel Weaver

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Episode 251 ft. Deborah K. Shepherd

Episode 251 ft. Deborah K. Shepherd

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