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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host duck brunt today we're talking with danny shapiro danny is the award-winning author of six novels and five works of

non-fiction i've read some of both are fiction and non-fiction and i can tell you she is one of the

best and most talented writers working today.

And as a quick side story to the introduction, when I first started planning out this show more than a year ago with the producers at Sirius XM, I had a wish list of 10 authors.

I hoped I could book on the show.

And I don't mention this much because I don't want to disappoint authors who are coming on.

But Danny was on my list of 10.

So it's a special pleasure to have her today.

In addition to her publishing and writing, though, she has co-founded a writer's conference that takes place in Wait for It, Poitano, Italy.

So we will learn more about that.

And to top it all off, she has a huge hit podcast of her own called Family Secrets. So we'll talk about that too. Danny, what a pleasure. Thanks for coming in. It's great to be with you, Doug. I am intrigued about your cocktail decision. I've been looking forward to it all month, really, because I've had many nagronies. I have never had a moscow ngroni.

It was a revelation to me, too.

So we're going on one big cube in each of these glasses, and so listeners can follow along.

It basically has similar ingredients to a ngroni, which would be gin, sweet vermouth, and Kampari. But instead of gin,

you have mescal, which we have here. I think Clooney already sold this company. So we're not

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