Dara Levan, IT COULD BE WORSE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Debut author Dara Levan joins Zibby to discuss IT COULD BE WORSE, a visceral and moving novel about a woman who discovers something devastating in the piano bench of her childhood home and starts to question if the people who should love her the most, her parents, have done more harm than healing. Dara delves into the inspiration behind the story and the themes of narcissistic abuse, resilience, and the pursuit of self-acceptance. She also describes her creative process (she wrote this novel in 15 weeks!) and the integration of speech pathology into the storyline, inspired by her past as a speech therapist.

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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.
0:56.5	And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Dara Levan is the author of It Could Be Worse. Dara is the
1:07.3	creator and host of Every Soul has a story, a podcast in which she interviews inspiring people from around the globe. Her calling to impact others began at the age of 12 in her hometown of North Miami Beach, Florida, when she interviewed the residence of the nursing home where her grandmother lived and wrote their stories. By the way, I did something like this. I interviewed the people in my grandmother's nursing home. I don't even think Darren and I spoke about this.
1:27.7	Anyway, as an undergrad at Indiana University,
1:30.4	Dara earned a BA in English and pursued a career in journalism,
1:33.2	but decided to pivot and return to South Florida to earn her MS in communication sciences and disorders.
1:38.9	Dara stopped practicing speech therapy to return to full-time writing.
1:42.1	Actively involved in her community,
1:43.6	she is currently a board member of the Community Foundation of Broward,
1:46.0	and board member of Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital Foundation, Memorial Hospital Foundation,
1:51.0	and the Community Foundation of Broward.
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