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Hello, and welcome back to big mood, little mood. I am your host, Daniel M. Levery, and

with me in the studio this week is Heather Hellerleski, an author who recently published

the book for Everland on the Divine TDM of Marriage. She also writes the Ask Polly advice

column formerly on New York Magazine now on Substack. Heather, welcome to the show.

Hello, Danny. I'm so pleased to be here with you. I am so pleased to be here with you.

I love periodically our intersecting careers lead us into moments where we get to do fun

little sessions together with the people to just enjoy or not as they like. I'm so glad

that we're doing this now. How are you? How's the book launch been going?

Really well. I've actually been enjoying promoting this book, which is a little bit new

for me. I mean, last book I enjoyed the book tour. I actually got on plane and went to several

places this time. I just went to New York, but I've been doing a lot of like putting on makeup

and then getting on zooms, doing interviews, putting on makeup and getting on podcasts and stuff

like that. But it's been fun because I don't know. This book is just so personal to me that's

fun to talk about. And amazingly enough, even though people keep asking me how humiliated I am

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