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For the Love of MemoirCalling all memoir junkies! 🎙️ This channel is dedicated to raw, honest conversations with memoir authors and industry insiders. We dig into the stories behind the stories—what it takes to write them, survive them, and share them.
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Jane Buyers: On Walking Away From Wall Street (opens the original)
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Jane Buyers was working four blocks from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Seven years later, she made the final margin call on Lehman Brothers as the financial system moved toward collapse. Those two Septembers became the bookends of her memoir, Eight Septembers: A Woman on Wall Street from 9/11 to Lehman. But the historic events are only the external story. During those years, Jane lost both parents, watched her marriage unravel, and reached the limits of a life built around compet
AI and Memoir: When Does Assistance Become Authorship? (opens the original)
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AI can help a memoirist find questions, test clarity, identify repetition, and surface possibilities. But what happens when it begins doing the writing itself?This week we meet Raven Petty, co-owner of Raven and Grace Press and a writing coach, about where AI can support memoir and where it begins to erase the very thing readers come for: a human voice.We discuss How to use AI responsibly, how the labor of memoir can be transformative, and why writers still need to do the work that makes the sto
Willima Holst on the Life and Music of Alan Hovanas (opens the original)
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What does it mean to finish a story someone else could no longer complete?In this episode, I sit down with William Holst to talk about completing his late mother Hinako Fujihara's final project—a biography of acclaimed composer Allan Hovhaness that became something more than a historical account. It became a love story, a family legacy, and a tribute to two remarkable lives. Together, we explore what it means to preserve another writer's voice, balancing editorial decisions with authenticity, th
On Second Thought, Maybe I Can with Debbie Weiss (opens the original)
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What happens when you stop saying "I can't" and start asking "Maybe I can?" In this episode, I sit down with memoirist Debbie Weiss totalk about the mindset shift that changed the course of her life and inspiredher memoir, On Second Thought... Maybe I Can . Debbie shares how writing her memoir helped her see her ownstory differently, why ordinary lives are worth writing about, and how findingher authentic voice on the page gave her permission to stop trying to be anyonebut herself. We also explo
Finding Fantastic Joy with Leah Johnson (opens the original)
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What happens when the life you've worked so hard to build no longer feels like your own?Before becoming an author, Leah Johnson spent years building a successful career in politics, advocating for others and helping shape public policy. But behind that success, she was struggling to advocate for herself.One line from our conversation has stayed with me:"I spent a lifetime building advocacy campaigns for everyone else but myself."In this episode, we explore success, identity, addiction, creativit
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