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Poppy Harlow and Laura Jarrett are co-authors of the children's book, The Color of Love.

Poppy Harlow, a previous guest on my podcast,

recently and very publicly, has left CNN, but was the co-anchor of CNN this morning,

weekday mornings, and was at CNN for over a decade, which we talk about. She was the creator and

host of the CNN podcast, Boss Files with Poppy Harlow, and author of The Biggest Little Boy, A Christmas Story, her debut picture book, which we discussed.

She is the proud mom of daughter Sienna and son Luca with her husband, Senisa.

Laura Jarrett is the co-anchor of Saturday Today and a senior legal correspondent for NBC News.

Originally from Chicago, she now lives

in New York City with her husband and two children. Welcome, Laura and Poppy. Thank you so much

for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss your co-authored book, The Color of

Love. Congratulations. Thank you for having us. We love Zippy. We're so excited to join with you today. Yay. Oh my gosh. Your book was so

sweet and so great. And I've been sitting here being like, what is my color of love? And I feel like it's

going to change depending on the day. Like there's so many different situations. So anyway,

tell listeners about the book and what it's about

and how you came up with it and the whole story. I'll just start up by saying, like, what a joy

it is to write a book with a friend, like, because this is, people don't know children's books are

a multi-year process. You know this to be because collaboration and then the illustration part

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