Wow. Thank you. This is the reason interview with Nick Gillespie. We are recording this live at the Blue Building.

Today's episode is co-sponsored by Young Voices.com. Look for them in the show notes. It's a

really interesting organization that helps young writers who are interested in freedom in all

of its various forms. Today's guest is Alexandra Hudson, who is the author of the new book,

The Soul of Civility, Timeless Principles to

Heal Society and Ourselves.

Alexandra Hudson, thanks for talking to reason.

Thanks for having me, Nick.

And, Alexandra, you go by Lexi.

That's right.

Okay.

So, Lexi, let's start with the elevator pitch for the soul of civility.

What's it about?

What are you trying to accomplish?

I was raised in a home that was very attentive to social norms and social expectations growing up.

My mother is called Judy the Manners Lady.

So she is this internationally renowned expert on manners and etiquette.

Over the course of writing this book, I discovered that my mother is actually only one of four

women who are internationally renowned experts in etiquette who are named Judy. My mother is just

one of them. Yeah, my favorite is Judith Martin at the Washington Post.

She's the most famous.

There are three others of one of which is my mother.

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