Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 110 ft. Danielle M. Bryan

Brooke Warner
Danielle M. Bryan joins me for a conversation about how she coped with cascading life adversities including multiple sclerosis and divorce, what it was like for her to share deeply emotional experiences on the page, leading with vulnerability, her decision to use a pseudonym, working with a developmental editor, using a hybrid publisher, creating the space and time for what we need personally and creatively, and her new memoir Unparalyzed: Beating an Invisible Pre-Midlife Crisis.

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Episode 262 ft. Kate Jackson

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Episode 261 ft. Suzanne Roberts

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