How Women Write

It's my birthday, so I'm doing something a little different. There's no guest today, just me, some gifted Tom Ford Lost Cherry perfume I just spritzed on, me, my mic, and a mascara-free, honest catch-up. You'll hear how...

There's a particular kind of ache that doesn't show up on the outside. You're doing everything right, checking all the boxes with a solid career and a great-looking life. But under the surface, something is off. It's...

My guest today is a fellow INFJ who built a writing and business empire from her keyboard — and she did it by trusting her intuition over anyone's idea of what a "proper" writer looks like. As Joanna Penn, she writes...

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being good at fitting in. Nicole Stephenson knows this feeling well. She spent years being told she was "too loud," "too much," "too honest." Then she wrote a book...

What I've learned from consistency, guests, and 1:1 conversations. WOOOHOOO! How Women Write is celebrating ONE HUNDRED episodes. On one hand, I don't know where the time went. And on the other, I wondered why it took...

Leslie Short has lived about four careers' worth of life — classical dancer, theater owner in Japan, FUBU executive, culture strategist, chaplain, UN speaker — and for years, people kept telling her the same thing after...

A writing update on the two books I'm playing with right now, the door metaphor I teach my students, and why I paused one manuscript to follow a nudge toward another. If you've ever been mid-draft on one project and had...

Claire Gallagher was here back in episode 15, where we chatted about Mercury, the SFD (The Surrendered First Draft ), and the importance of moving her body to keep the words flowing. Last year, she told me that she was...

When I met Hazel at a networking event, she introduced herself as a photographer. When I checked out her website, I learned she did so much more. Two books, workshops, and a whimsical yet practical outlook on life...

I said something out loud a few weeks ago that I can't take back … I'm writing my next book in public. And honestly, it's a little scary. In this episode, I walk through what led here: finishing my fourth book, Writing...

Pippa Wilford named her business after Dagaz — the rune for daybreak, that instant when everything finally becomes clear. It's a fitting name for a woman who didn't set out to become an author. She was a civil servant...

Nadine Maldonado didn't set out to write a book. She was only trying to survive the tragic loss of her daughter. It turned out that a gifted journal and metallic pens became the place she could finally put down the...

Kara Vaval is an attorney, speaker, two-time author, and founder of The InPowerment Institute. She's also the woman behind the Laptop Lifestyle Lawyer brand — and one of the most honest voices I've had on this show...

Want to start listening to Writing with the Moon from the beginning? Start here. In this series, I'm reading my entire book, Writing with the Moon, for free. In this episode, I continue with PART TWO: PISCES. When to...

Want to start listening to Writing with the Moon from the beginning? Start here. In this series, I'm reading my entire book, Writing with the Moon, for free. In this episode, I continue with PART TWO: AQUARIUS. When to...