Bozoma Saint John, THE URGENT LIFE: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Bozoma and Zibby unexpectedly laughed their way through their conversation about loss, connecting over how important it is to find the humor in the atrociously bad stretches of life. Bozoma discussed her late husband's illness and her relationship with God (her "homie"), which she wrote about in her memoir, and how her losses and experiences have made her question her religion. They bonded over Zibby's new magazine idea "Sag Mag" about the indignities of aging, and decided (?) to collaborate on a book called Turbulence. Fast friends, Zibby and Bozoma, will soon be found meeting up for drinks IRL and laughing.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
| 0:14.9 | I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir. |
| 0:21.9 | Our books are already out now. |
| 0:23.5 | You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com. |
| 0:25.6 | And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle |
| 0:31.2 | features. |
| 0:31.8 | That's at Zibbymag.com. |
| 0:33.1 | We have classes at Zippy Classes.com. |
| 0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
| 0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
| 0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
| 0:56.1 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. |
| 1:03.2 | Basomo St. John is the author of The Urgent Life, My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival. |
| 1:09.0 | Bazoma is a Hall of Fame inducted marketing executive, author, entrepreneur, and general |
| 1:14.5 | badass. |
| 1:15.7 | Gosh, I should put that in my bio, just being a general badass. |
| 1:18.8 | Anyway, Boz got her start in her marketing career at Spike Lee's ad agency, Spike DDB. |
| 1:24.7 | She then went on to manage brands in the PepsiCo Beverages portfolio before becoming |
| 1:28.4 | head of music and entertainment marketing at the CPG giant. After that, she led global consumer |
| 1:33.0 | marketing at Apple Music and iTunes before serving as chief brand officer at Uber. She then took on |
| 1:38.9 | chief marketing officer role for Endeavor, including WME, IMG, UFC, Miss Universe, 160 over 90, etc. Most recently, |
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