Welcome to the Shaline Show. Shaline is a New York Times best-selling author, celebrity fitness trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life.

Hey there! Welcome to this edition of the Shaline Show. You're gonna love today's episode. I've invited into the studio, someone who I've been a fan of for quite a while. This is Lisa Lilian.

And I know you're familiar with the Hungry Girl Books, and maybe the Hungry Girl blog, or maybe you've seen one of our top rated cooking shows on the Food Network or the Cooking Channel.

Lisa has a following over three million. And what I love about Lisa, and you're gonna love about her too, is you're gonna hear this realness. Like she's so down to her, she gets us.

Like she gets the girl who she's creating these recipes for. She's in over 12 books. Six New York Times best-sellers day, do you say that?

And one of the reasons why I was so excited to have her today is because last night, I turned in my manuscript for the book The One Through One Method, and it was so brutal!

Writing this book, I felt like it was kind of like when I had our first child Brock, and he was a colloquy baby, and I just wanted to talk to other moms.

I was just so desperate to find another mom who was like, yes, my baby was horribly colloquy too, so we could commiserate. But I could never find that mom.

I won't give away the punchline, but writing books is pretty easy for Lisa.

Here's the inspiration that I want you to soak up.

Lisa doesn't have a master's degree in nutrition. She's not a trained chef. She's never worked as a culinary food artist.

She just knows how to put things together. She's what I like to call a guide. That's my word, not hers.

A food guide or a guide of any sort of someone who says, listen, I'm not trying to say I'm the best, I'm not trying to say I know more than anyone else.

I'm just saying I really want to help people, and I'm out here with a flashlight in front showing you the way, like I'm showing you the path, I'm showing you the good stuff.

Now she describes herself as a food gossip, but I have to say she's underselling herself. This is a woman who loves sharing things that she thinks are going to make life easier.

As an example, like five minutes after she left, she was sending me text messages with the links to all of her favorite platform heels because we are both, I know I'm under five two and I'm pretty sure Lisa is two.

So we had that bond that like, oh, it's so great to find comfortable shoes that have a platform and are comfortable.

Like this is the kind of person we love, the kind of person who says, I just want to help. So no more wasting time. Let's get to the interview with Lisa.

So last night at 2 a.m. I literally hit send on the manuscript for my second book. And when I wrote, finished my first book, I was like, I'm never writing a book again.

Please explain to me, how have you written 13 books?

Well, I just finished the 13th. I mean, my books are mostly recipe books. So it's a lot of recipe development and I have a great team.

Okay.

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