This is the Beautiful Writers podcast, and you've just landed on part two of our best of episode.

I'm Linda Sievertson, and about nine months ago I put together our very first best of compilation

thinking that I would soon create part two where I could get to many of the amazing guests and snippets

I didn't have time for in part one.

And then Tom Hanks happened and Maria Shriver and Van Jones and Gabby Bernstein and Dean Coons and more.

I only do this show you guys once a month.

That doesn't sound like much, right?

In fact, as far as I can tell all of the other literature podcasts

in the top 100 on iTunes, there are all weekly shows. So I don't know if I'm just slow or

if I radically overprepared, but I can promise you I can't do this show any faster. Not to

mention, I just launched a course on time debt called Bending Time in the Age of Distraction,

and I've learned it's way easier to get into flow where magic lives when you are not pushing

your body and brain to their physical limits. That said, whenever I'm tempted to think it's just

once a month, Linda, I take heart in the concept

that people tend to overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in 10

years that's comforting right because these growing pages of transcripts from the show can feel

sometimes like I don't know like I'm at the post office

where the mail never stops arriving. I look at my transcript folder with its hundreds of pages

of wisdom from these celebrity writers and I think, dang, I have never been so relieved to be

writing a book. Because at least with the beautiful writer's book, there will be plenty of

room to include everyone. I can already see it's going to have to be a series, though, since

every month there's a new show. In that vein, I've decided this morning that very soon I'm going to

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