Hey there and welcome to the Marie Forelio podcast. My guest today is my dear friend Latham Thomas and if you've never met her before let me tell you a little bit about her.

Latham is a celebrity

wellness and lifestyle guru and birth dula who is named one of Oprah's

Super Soul 100 and one of Mind Body Greens top 100 women to watch in wellness.

She's the founder of Mama Glow and has been featured in Vogue, Self, Fast Company,

Wall Street Journal magazine, Essence, and Fit Pregnancy, among others.

She is the proud mother of D.J. Falano, and she lives in New York City, and her latest

new book, Own Your Gl, A Soulful Guide to Luminous Living and

Crowning The Queen Within is available now.

Latham Thomas, welcome, welcome, welcome to the Marie Forelio Podcast.

So good to have you on, woman.

Marie, I'm so grateful to be here.

What an honor.

Well, this new book, Own Your Glow, a Soulful Guide to Luminous Living.

This is fantastic.

I want to start off with why this book and this message right now.

What was the inspiration for this one?

The inspiration for this book really came from what I saw as a

need for women to embrace self-care, to slow down. I think that there's a force that women move with around like doing too much and I think that you can achieve more by slowing down and being more intentional and embracing some of the

feminine forces that help us to actually create. So I set out to write the book that sort of helps me with the principles that I use in my own life

so that other people could do that themselves.

I love it and I will admit wholeheartedly that I do battle with those same forces every single day.

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