Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, THE BETTER HALF

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Julie Chavez interviews comedy writing duo Alli Frank and Asha Youmans about The Better Half, a charming, laugh-out-loud funny book about a woman who has reached her personal and professional pinnacle and then… gets pregnant! Alli and Asha share their mission of exploring challenging subjects through a lens of humor and joy. They also talk about their partnership with Mindy’s Book Studio (Mindy Kaling’s new publishing house!) and their lovely writing support group, the Tall Poppy Writers. Finally, they play the question game with Julie (“When was the last time you got unreasonably upset?").

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:06.7	This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called ZibbyMag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
0:35.4	And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop
0:40.3	at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of
0:47.9	our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.
0:56.1	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy it.
1:03.4	Allie U-Mans and Asha Frank are co-authors of The Better Half, a novel. This episode has been
1:08.8	guest hosted by Julie Chavez, author of the upcoming Zippy Books title,
1:13.9	Everyone but Myself, and host of the podcast Ask a Librarian. Allie and Asha have already been on
1:19.3	this podcast once and I was so happy to interview them the first time. I also just did a Zibi
1:23.5	retreat with Ali Frank at the Shoe Suki Ban House in Watermill, and we had a really great time.
1:30.7	Ali and Asha found literary soulmates at each other after working together as teacher and school
1:34.9	administrator in Seattle, Washington. They discovered a shared mission as educators and as authors
1:40.0	to use humor, joy, and compassion to write stories that encourage candid conversations about
1:45.1	issues such as race, religion, culture, class, privilege, parenting, and education.
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