Andi Buchanan, THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 20 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
New York Times best-selling author Andrea Buchanan is the author of ten books including The Daring Book for Girls and Mother Shock. In her latest memoir, The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself, Andi recounts her year of experiencing a profound health crisis and the struggle to find her way back to her former self. Andi and I discussed the loss of control that comes with illness, Andi’s unique approach to writing after this traumatic experience, and the idea that often you must just "be where you’re at" instead of starting from the beginning. I was particularly moved by Andi’s love of piano and the daily practice she used as a way to heal.
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| 0:28.8 | he has written two fantastic books called The End of Your Life Book Club and Books for Living. He |
| 0:33.8 | loves asking people what books they're reading and finds fantastic answers, and so |
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| 0:43.9 | are reading. He's had guests like Kevin Kwan, Melinda Gates, Peter Hedges, and Jody Foster, |
| 0:49.8 | and has had many guests that I've also had on this podcast, including Minjin Lee, Danny Shapiro, |
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| 1:12.1 | another story with Will Schwabing. I'm here today with Andrea Buchanan, who goes by the nickname Andy, |
| 1:17.4 | who is a New York Times bestselling author, and we're talking about her book, The Beginning of |
| 1:21.5 | Everything, the Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself. She's also the author of 10 other books, |
| 1:27.2 | including The Daring Book for Girls |
| 1:28.7 | and Mother Shock. Before becoming a full-time writer, Andy was a concert pianist, and she currently |
| 1:33.9 | lives in Philadelphia with her family. Welcome, Andy. Thanks for coming on, Mom's and have |
| 1:38.4 | time to read books. I'm so glad to be here. Thanks for being here in person, too. This is so great. |
| 1:42.5 | Yeah, no, my pleasure. |
| 1:49.1 | Your memoir, the beginning of everything, the year I lost my mind and found myself, |
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