I'm Laura Tramee and while I always have 10 things to tell you, today I have just one very important thing.

My new book, The Life Council, 10 Friends Every Woman Needs, launches April 4th, and this episode is a sample of the audiobook

version, which I read myself.

If you like listening to this podcast and you're used to my voice here,

then you might like hearing me read the full book to you.

If you like to read on the go, the e-book version gives you instant gratification, but if you like to underline good

sentences and concepts and love having a pretty book on your shelves or if you like

to pass along a great book when you're done reading it, then you'll for sure want either

the hardcover or the paperback, all of which are available on release day.

But whatever version you choose, audiobook, e-book, hardcover, or paperback, it would mean the world to me if you would order the Life Council right now.

As a pre-order, if you're listening to this episode in the last week of March

or on my launch week in the first week of April. Pre-orders and launch-week orders mean

the most to authors because strong sales numbers around launch time signals

to publishers, media, retailers, and to other readers that this is a good book worth paying attention to and when good books get

good attention authors like me get to keep writing books and readers like me get to keep

reading them. I wrote this book, The Life Council, because I needed to.

This was the book that I needed to read when I was in my 20s and finding my footing in the real world and this was the book I wish I'd had in my 30s when I was a new mom and super lonely and this was the book I finally decided to write for myself in my

40s as I navigated Friendship Change.

In fact this excerpt you're about to listen to starts with a story about a friendship reckoning, a conflict that I had during the pandemic.

Because I haven't been the perfect friend, I felt ill-equipped to write a book about friendship, but I also really wanted to be having

this conversation about our most important relationships. And what I was learning, I wanted to have this all on a bigger scale.

And that's how I want you to approach reading the Life Council.

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