Hi, I'm Kate Northrop.

And I'm Mike Watts.

And we're partners in life, love, and business.

Welcome to the Kate and Mike show, where we share insights and interviews on entrepreneurship,

relationships, parenting, self-actualization, and making a life not just a living.

Hi. Welcome to the Kate and Mike show. I'm Kate. This is Mike.

And we have a beautiful interview for you today with the one and only Danny Shapiro. This was

such a great conversation and we both could have talked to her for several more hours. So perhaps

she'll be back someday. But Danny is

an author, and I love her work. I came across her first through my friend Aidan Donnelly Rowley

when she hosted her at one of her happier hours in New York City. And then she came back on my

radar through our friend and company president, Lisa.

And then I saw her book all over the place.

All of a sudden, an hourglass recommended by Chris Carr, by my friend Nancy Levin, and it was all over Instagram.

So we decided to invite Danny after I had gotten the chance to go to a book reading with her right here in our hometown of Portland, Maine.

And in the interview, we talk about changing our perception of time and how to change our

experience of time. We talk about navigating childhood illness with your kid and the heartbreak

of that and what to do about it. We talk about marriage and also media and book tours and how to

write a book and how to write a good one. And then the difference between the literary world and the

self-help world. And I thought that was a really interesting conversation. So Mike, do you want to

give the official bio? Sure. So Danny Shapiro is a bestselling author of the memoir, still writing, devotion, and slow motion,

and five novels, including black and white and family history.

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