Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes.

I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.

Our books are already out now.

You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.

And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle

features.

That's at Zibbymag.com.

We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.

And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop

at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of

our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018.

And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Amy Newmark is the author, editor-in-chief,

and publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul book series, which is turning 30 this summer. And in honor of

the 30th anniversary edition, which I actually contributed to a whole essay about owning a bookshop,

she launched a new anthology. Formerly a Wall Street analyst, hedge fund manager, tech company

executive, and public company board member, she found new purpose and passion at age 50

when she took over the iconic book series. Now, instead of dealing with fear and greed on Wall Street,

she has a front row seat to a whole panoply of human emotions through the thousands of personal

revealing stories she has published. Amy is a graduate of Harvard, where she majored in Portuguese

and minored in French. She and her husband

have four children and five grandchildren, and that's the best thing of all. Welcome, Amy. Thank you so

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