Carrie Berk, MINDFIRE: Diary of an Anxious Twentysomething
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Totally Booked: LIVE! In this special episode of the podcast (in-person at the Whitby Hotel with a live audience!), Zibby chats with journalist, content creator, and bestselling author Carrie Berk about MINDFIRE: Diary of an Anxious Twentysomething. Carrie opens up about her mental health journey, from experiencing intrusive thoughts as a child to managing panic attacks during COVID. She shares personal stories, practical coping strategies, and the importance of reframing anxiety, not to “cure” it, but to coexist with it. The two explore the healing power of writing, the realities behind curated content, and how storytelling can help others feel less alone.
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| 0:55.7 | Welcome, Carrie. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked. I am so excited to have you here to talk about your book Mindfire. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm so excited too. For those of you who don't know Carrie, I have to redo this super impressive and extremely long bio because her accomplishments at age 22 surpass probably most people that I know and certainly I'm going to guess most |
| 1:01.1 | people in the room, but don't feel too bad. Okay, Carrie, listen to all of this. Carrie Burke is a New |
| 1:10.4 | York City-based journalist, content creator, and best-selling |
| 1:13.7 | author. Her most recent book, My Real Life Romcom, was a Barnes & Noble bestseller and peaked at |
| 1:19.2 | number one in the Dating and Inimacy category on Amazon. Burke freelances for several publications, |
| 1:25.0 | including New York Post, Page 6, Huff Post, Women's Health, and Newsweek. |
| 1:29.9 | Burke is a best-selling children's book author with 21 books to her credit. |
| 1:35.0 | She penned her first book, Peace Love and Cupcakes, in 2012, when she was eight. |
| 1:40.6 | This is so embarrassing for those of us who had. |
| 1:43.0 | Embarrassing for me hearing it. |
| 1:44.6 | No, this is amazing. |
| 1:47.1 | The Cupcake Club series went on to publish 12 books |
| 1:49.8 | selling over 300,000 copies worldwide |
| 1:52.0 | and became an award-winning off-Broadway show |
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