Eliza Reid, SECRETS OF THE SPRAKKAR: Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Journalist, co-founder of the Iceland Writers Retreat, and First Lady of Iceland Eliza Reid joins Zibby to discuss her book, Secrets of the Sprakkar, and all of the outstanding women who have inspired it. Eliza shares some of the commendable Icelandic policies that have advanced gender equality in the nation, as well as how she approaches her own role as First Lady as a feminist and an immigrant. The two also talk about the process of how this book came to be, what it has been like to tour with a book about gender equality in the United States at this time, and a few funny stories about her husband as a father rather than a president.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.
0:07.8	Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:10.7	It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or
0:21.1	less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this
0:25.9	podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,
0:31.8	wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can
0:37.4	learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,
0:39.5	but really you're here to learn more about the authors,
0:42.3	and that is what we're going to do.
0:44.4	Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts
0:46.9	in the ZCast Podcast Network.
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0:51.9	and definitely check out those shows as well.
0:58.5	Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Eliza Reed is the First Lady of Iceland.
1:01.8	She is the author of Secrets of the Sprakar, Iceland's extraordinary women and how they are
1:06.4	changing the world.
1:08.5	Eliza is a journalist, an editor, and co-founder of the annual Iceland Writers Retreat, which, by the way, was the world. Eliza is a journalist, an editor, and co-founder of the annual Iceland Writers' Retreat,
1:13.9	which, by the way, was the first sponsor, one of the first sponsors this podcast ever had.
1:18.2	After growing up on a hobby farm near Ottawa, Canada, she went on to earn degrees in international
1:22.9	relations in history from the University of Toronto and Oxford University, respectively.
1:27.5	As First Lady, Eliza has been active in promoting gender equality, entrepreneurship, and
1:32.0	innovation, tourism, and sustainability, and the country's writers and rich literary history.
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