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at Zibby Owens. Amy Griffin is the author of The Tell, a memoir. Amy lives in New York City

with her husband John and their four children. She is the founder of the investment firm G9 Ventures.

Welcome, Amy. Thank you so much for coming on totally booked with Zibby to talk about

the tell your amazing memoir. Congratulations. Thank you, Sibby. Thank you so much for having me.

And you're just such a great supporter of women and their stories. And it's,

you know, it's so surreal to see you holding my book. Here we go. I have to say, I was,

I read it on an airplane at one point and somebody walked by and was like, I have to get that book.

Oh, that's so nice. Especially for so many, you know, you and I are a few blocks away in New York right now and have so many people in common who have been sort of salivating to get their hands on your book. So I feel very privileged to have read it early. I want to give it out. I want everyone to have it. I think the greatest compliment thus far has been, you know, I've only given them out to a few of my closest friends and early readers were various people in press. And I think, you know, it's so kind when someone has said to me, it really means a lot when they've said to me, Amy, I hope you don't mind that I gave your book to someone to read it. And it shows that people are talking about it, and they're sharing, and they're telling their stories, and that's kind of

why I wrote it. Wow. Well, okay, to the book itself, tell listeners a little bit about your memoir,

and also you very easily, I mean, I guess every memoir, but you very easily could have not

decided to share all of this about yourself, and I'm sorry I guess every memoir, but you very easily could have not decided to share

all of this about yourself. And I'm sorry, by the way, for just everything you've been holding

and the secrets and the experiences and all of it. But you so easily could have not shared this.

Why share it and tell the story too? You know, just going to that very idea that secrets are not for anyone to keep and they're

not fair and they're not, they keep people closed off from the relationships and the lives

they could be having and living. And I feel like this book was when I started writing it.

I had no intention of publishing it. And that's, I think,

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