Blowing up Your to Follow Your Dreams Life with Elle Cosimano

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In celebration of the release of Elle Cosimano's latest book Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave we are re-releasing our much beloved interview with Elle about how she blew up her life to follow her dream of becoming a writer. This is a must listen for anyone looking to pivot or make a change right now. Elle was miserable in her job working in real estate. Then her mother offered to care for her children for the summer and take on the physical and mental load of parenting so that Elle could try to write her own book. That moment of receiving permission to do something for herself, completely changed Elle's life and put her on the path to writing her first book, to finding an agent, to publishing a book and then many books and then hitting the bestseller lists. And along the way Elle connected with other women who were also blowing up their lives to switch careers to become authors. Those women inspired her every single day to keep going. This is about women lifting each other up and supporting one another unconditionally. It is about the fear and shame and guilt many of us have about doing something that seems selfish, that is for ourselves. Elle Cosimano has inspired me so much on my own journey and I know that she is going to inspire you. Get a copy of Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave here. Learn more about Elle and buy all of her books here. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for videos of all episodes here. Join our newsletter community here. Pre-order EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU here. Visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	As a small business owner, my favourite thing about posting a job on LinkedIn is that when I hit send, I clock out and LinkedIn clocks in.
0:07.0	LinkedIn makes it easy to post your job for free. Get qualified candidates and manage them all in one place.
0:12.9	Plus, LinkedIn extends the reach of your job posts by allowing you to share it with your network.
0:17.7	And hiring managers that add a hiring frame to their LinkedIn profiles
0:21.5	receive two times more qualified applicants. Go to LinkedIn.com slash agree to post your job
0:27.4	for free. Terms and conditions apply. Hey, Joe here and you are listening to Under the Influence.
0:34.4	Today is a rerun. I know that's crazy, right? I haven't really done reruns before, but trust me, I have a really good reason for doing one today.
0:45.7	My friend El Casamano's new book, Finley Donovan digs her own grave, is out today wherever you buy books.
0:53.2	I love Elle so, so much. We first met at a book event at Bluebird
0:58.1	bookstore down in Croze, Virginia. I talk about them all the time, too. It is owned by my
1:03.6	friends, Flannery and Chelsea, fully women-owned, woman-operated, they are badasses. They are
1:10.0	doing signed and personalized copies of
1:12.1	everyone is lying to you for me, and they're just good people. And I truly believe that good
1:17.8	people often bring together other good people. So Flannery knew that Elle and I had to meet.
1:23.9	Before this book event, I binged Elle's entire Finley Donovan series. It is a delight, okay? These are cozy murder mysteries about a very real and authentic heroine. She is a harried mom of two kids. She is all of us in so many ways. I just binged the hell out of them. And so when I met Elle, I was a little bit starstruck,
1:45.8	but she was just so freaking amazing, right off the bat.
1:50.9	And her story about blowing up her life to follow her dream just blew me away.
1:56.8	I think about aspects of it all the time.
2:00.1	I really do.
2:00.6	I quote her. I once quoted her to her,
2:03.4	which is like that scene in When Harry Met Sally, where Carrie Fisher quotes Bruno Kirby back to
2:08.1	Bruno Kirby. Also, can we talk about how the Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby, love story in when
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