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You're listening to the Brave Writer Podcast. I'm Julie Bogart.

The Brave Writer Podcast is designed to support parents who take an active interest in their

children's education, whether you homeschool or not.

When I get together with any member of my staff, whether it's a slack call or a

Zoom call or even in person, something happens that I never planned for. We laugh our heads off. We talk non-stop. The meetings run over and nobody tries to stop them. There is this kinetic energy that goes into the work of Brave Writer

that none of you see.

And the other day I was in a meeting with Don Smith,

the head of publishing, and and I said why aren't we

recording this right now and she started laughing and then I said you know what I'm

serious you need to be on the podcast. We need to show everybody who listens how the

sausage is made and let me just be clear it is not made like sausage. So much gentle care, love, imagination, and idealism goes into every single

one of our products. And I want you to understand like the underlying philosophy and even the dedication and the tailor-making of each of these tools that happens behind the scenes that delivers to you the award-winning

innovative writing program that all of you are using. And if you're not yet,

maybe you'll want to by the end of this show. So if you are brave writer curious or you're

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