Bookstore Owner + NYT Bestselling Author Jenny Lawson on How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Founder of Nowhere Bookshop is anywhere but nowhere. She’s a guru. Jenny Lawson has written book after book about her mental health, obstacles, tips and tricks, using her sense of humor and relatable voice. How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay is my favorite of all her books to date. I dog-earred so many pages with actual, actionable advice. Plus I love following her on social (thebloggess). Let me know if this book makes you feel better. I know I did.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbymedia.com and follow me on |
| 0:39.7 | Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.5 | Jenny Lawson is the author of How to Be Okay when Nothing is Okay, |
| 0:48.7 | tips and tricks that kept me alive, happy, and creative in spite of myself. Jenny, who goes by The Blogges, is the number one New York Times bestselling author known |
| 0:58.8 | for her humor in writing about hard subjects, including mental illness, chronic pain, and more. |
| 1:03.6 | Her books include, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Furiously Happy, Broken, You Are Here, |
| 1:09.3 | and Now, How to Be Okay When Nothing is Okay. This is Jenny's, I don't know, second, third, fourth, you are here, and now how to be okay when nothing is okay. This is Jenny's, |
| 1:13.2 | I don't know, second, third, fourth, multiple times on the podcast. She also owns Nowhere Bookshop |
| 1:18.9 | in Texas, which we talk about, and it was fun to talk shop with another bookstore owner. |
| 1:24.8 | Jenny, welcome back on Totally Book to talk about how to be okay when |
| 1:28.8 | nothing is okay. Congratulations. Thank you so much. I'm so glad to be back. Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:35.5 | I think, I mean, I have to say, am I allowed to say this is definitely my favorite book of yours? |
| 1:39.1 | They're all so good, but this one has something for everybody. There are things that I've taken away in all different parts of the book |
| 1:47.0 | because you have so many great helpful sections, |
| 1:49.0 | which will help me, which will help people I love, which, I mean, it's just awesome. |
| 1:52.5 | And it's so funny and so you and so perfect. |
| 1:55.6 | I loved it. |
| 1:56.3 | It was really good. |
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