Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 164 ft. Diana Raab

Brooke Warner

Diana Raab joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about connecting with ancestors and tuning into their guidance, books that need to be written, when publisher requests don’t resonate with us, adding prompts for readers, unwanted daughters and intergenerational trauma, how books we don’t like help us, adding prompts for readers, tapping into authentic voice, and her new book Hummingbird: Messages from My Ancestors.

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Episode 172 ft. Daria Burke

Episode 172 ft. Daria Burke

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Episode 171 ft. Tom McAllister

Episode 171 ft. Tom McAllister

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