Hey everyone. Today is a celebration day over here at the Beautiful Writers' podcast, our first ever best of episode. I'm Linda Sievertson, your host, and it's not only my birthday today, August 31st, but we are sneaking up on the two-year birthday of this podcast. Since it's still

summertime and I'm feeling reflective and especially grateful today to have the time and

ability to even do this podcast when so many people are stuck in survival mode, I want today's

episode to be special, really fun. It wasn't that many years ago that I was in my own kind of survival mode, and it takes time and patience and a lot of good folks to see you through to the other side.

On that note, I want to send love to those in Houston still reeling from Hurricane Harvey.

Bray Brown, who many of you follow on social media

and who Danielle Leport and I interviewed last year,

lives in Houston and reminds us to donate

to whatever organization we support

that's helping people on the ground there

and to remember them six months from now

when depression can set in,

adrenaline is depleted, and the world has moved on.

I donated through Glenn and Doyle Melton and

her together rising by texting TR number four, Texas to the numbers 41444. They send you a prompt

for your tax deductible donation. Super easy. Again, that's TR4, Texas, to the numbers 4144.

Okay, about today's show.

I have been wanting to do a best of episode for at least the 14 months since I took

over as the sole host here and brought on different monthly co-hosts, which has been a

blast.

But guys, oh, Lord, with over 22 hours of interviews with some of my all-time favorite

writers, it was pointless trying to choose the quote-unquote best snippets and or interviews.

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