I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you.

I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you.

And you have 10 things to tell you.

And you have 10 things to tell.

This show is about connection with each other

and with ourselves.

And the hope is that the things we talk about here will be fuel for better conversations and a personal awareness.

Each episode has a prompt or a topic that I want you to take to your journal, text to a friend,

or share on social media using the hashtag 10

things to tell you. This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our

stuff. I'll go first. I absolutely love today's guest Mary Morance. Her memoir

Dirt was one of my all-time favorite reads of 2021 and my conversation with her for 10 things to tell you that year was also a real

highlight. There is something about Mary's story and writing that I just connect so deeply with.

She's back today on 10 Things to Tell You

to talk about her latest book,

Slow Growth equals Strong Roots,

which came out last fall.

In this episode, Mary and I talk about being the most put together person in the

room in the pursuit of perfection and acceptance and that feeling of needing to prove that you

deserve whatever success or opportunity you have and how our little

girl selves would be so happy with the lives that we actually have now.

And somehow we are still wishing for something better and different occasionally.

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