Hello and welcome to February 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dory Schaeffreier. And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about syrums.

And today we have a conversation with one of my like oldest L.A. friends. Okay. Like someone who who I met pretty soon

after moving to L.A. And we've been friends ever since we worked together at BuzzFeed. That was how we met. And we've been friends ever since.

We worked together at BuzzFeed.

That was how we met.

And we have a very funny story about a mutual, yeah, about a mutual romantic man.

Man.

Romantic man. So stay tuned for that. It's with my friend hillary power who is a business

dula she's like carved out this interesting little niche it's basically consulting but it's with a

more sort of like spiritual and like holistic.

Holistic vibe.

Yeah.

So it's pretty interesting.

So stay tuned for that.

But we haven't talked for a few days, so there's a lot to catch up on.

First thing I want to know is, how was the book event?

So my literary agent, who I'm obsessed with, is named Alia Hannah Habib. She is an agent at the Gernard Company. And she wrote a book called Take It From Me, an agent's guide to building a

nonfiction writing career from scratch. I would describe it as a sort of a combo memoir because she,

you know, she talks a lot about her own career. But then also, like, it is a real how-to guide.

Like, that's great. She has real pitches that some of her clients sent to like the New York Times

magazine to get assignments because there's a big part of the first couple chapters are really

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