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I was so taken with Elizabeth Day, the author of one of us from the first line of her book.

I think she is just the smartest, coolest woman. I love her social

media feed, the podcast that she does called How to Fail. Her book is just so smart and interesting.

She's the author of The Party and many other books. She is an influential podcaster because of her

show, as I mentioned,

How to Fail, which has become a go-to hitmaker and has launched authors such as Meg Mason

and Glennon Doyle onto the bestseller lists in the UK. She divides her time between London and

Los Angeles, and we talked all about podcasting, our similar paths from divorce, failure, to recovery, reinvention,

and we both use the microphone and the podcast media to change our lives, expand our communities,

and create more meaning. And it was a really interesting conversation, one that I wish we could

continue and hopefully

we'll do one day. Welcome, Elizabeth. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Book to talk about

one of us, your novel and all the amazing things that you do in your life. So congrats.

Oh, thank you so much for having me. And thank you also, Zibi, for everything you do to champion books and authors. We would be nothing without you. And I'm so grateful that you are sharing your platform with me and I get to chat all about books and life and love and everything in between. I mean, it's fun, right? You do this all the time. Podcasting is like the greatest

gig. You just get to talk and learn and meet people and constantly, you know, explore different

topics and connect all over the world. It's pretty cool. It's very cool. And you get licensed to

ask questions that in other realms would be deemed nosy, but when you're a podcaster, it's just curiosity. Totally. I'm like, I know it's been three minutes, but let's talk about your fertility, because I saw it on the students. Yeah. I know. Somehow it's sort of okay. I don't know, kind of. It's 100% okay. And also, I'm a massive oversharing.. In fact I don't think there's any such thing as

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