Breena Clarke, CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL: I'm Speaking Now: Black Women Share Their Truth in 101 Stories of Love, Courage and Hope
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Breena Clarke, co-editor of Chicken Soup for the Soul: I'm Speaking Now, recently joined Zibby for an Instagram Live. Their conversation, released here as an episode, covers how Breena and her team selected 101 stories and poems from over 2,000 submissions, why it was essential to feature a diverse range of Black female voices, and the loss of Breena's child.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
| 0:12.2 | which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology. |
| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
| 0:20.4 | And I'm the editor-in-chief of M don't have time to write a new publication on Medium. |
| 0:25.0 | And we're accepting submissions, so please send your personal essays there. |
| 0:29.1 | And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens and my website is Zibby Owens.com. |
| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.3 | Special announcement. I am teaming now back to this amazing podcast. Special announcement. |
| 0:45.7 | I am teaming up with Katie Couric Media's wake-up call and Random House to give away 100 copies of the book Stranger Care by Sarah Centilles. I'm really excited about this. |
| 0:52.1 | Here's a little about Sarah's book, and we collectively are giving |
| 0:55.7 | away 100 copies. After their decision not to have a biological child, Sarah Centillies and her |
| 1:01.8 | husband Eric decide to adopt via the foster care system. Despite knowing that the system's goal |
| 1:06.7 | is the child's reunification with the birth family, Sarah opens their home to a flurry of social |
| 1:11.2 | workers who question them, evaluate them, and ultimately prepare them to welcome a child into their |
| 1:16.0 | lives even if it means most likely having to give the child back. Stranger Care is an illuminating read, |
| 1:21.9 | and Sarah will be on this podcast soon. So if you would like to enter for a chance to win, |
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| 1:38.9 | communications and special offers from Katie Couric's wake-up call and moms don't have time to |
| 1:43.8 | read books. Thank you for doing it and enter to win today. Just go back to the episode description. Thanks again. I did an Instagram live with Brena Clark, who is the co-editor of Chicken Soup for the Soul. I'm speaking now. Black women share their truth in 101 stories of love, courage, and hope. |
| 2:02.2 | The other editor is Amy Newmark, who is the publisher of the whole company, and who I also had |
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