This is Happy Nassalt with Sandy Scarlata.

Today's interview is with Ashley Bannon.

Hey everyone, welcome!

Thank you so much for joining me today.

I have been having such a great time, talking with people, interviewing them, hearing so

many different stories of inspiration, you know, people just pulling themselves up from,

you know, when they felt that they were at their lowest point in their life and then just

showing how, you know, you can get through anything.

It's just incredible and I love being able to bring that to my listeners because, you

know, we're in crazy times these days.

And, you know, well, it seems like things are definitely going to get better.

We've been through a lot.

So I hope you're enjoying some of the guests that I'm having on the show and I hope that

it's helping you find some inspiration and just know that, you know, you're not alone

out there.

Life is hard sometimes and, you know, we get through it.

So my guest today is Ashley Bannon, Ashley wrote a memoir called A Beautiful Moon Waiting

and I tell you, it is one of the most beautiful covers of a book I've seen in a long time.

So Ashley, as a child, she had big dreams of becoming a published author.

She put those dreams aside once becoming an English teacher after college but never

fully gave up on them.

She has many unfinished manuscripts but once she sat down and began writing this memoir,

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