Finding Yourself with Blair Glaser
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Join Blair Glaser as she journeys into herself and goes from NYC and LA to a special yoga retreat in This Incredible Longing: How I Found My Self in a Near-Cult Experience. (Shout out to Isabelle Fisher Krishana, her cousin.) If you’ve ever felt lost, start here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
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| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Blair Glazer is the author of this incredible longing, a memoir. Blair happens to be |
| 0:51.4 | the cousin of one of my best friends named Isabel Fisher, Krishana, |
| 0:55.9 | and it felt like I was talking to a friend that I'd known my whole life. |
| 0:59.6 | Blair Glazer is a writer, leadership consultant, and licensed psychotherapist. |
| 1:04.8 | She was the internet's first actor advice columnist when her weekly column, Ask Blair, appeared on Playbill Online. More recently, |
| 1:13.1 | her work has been published in the LA Times, Longreads, courts, the Times of Higher Ed and |
| 1:17.8 | Huff Post, among others, as well as literary magazines such as Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Brevity, |
| 1:23.8 | The Mantelpiece, and more. She lives with her husband and dog ter, Vana White, in Los Angeles. |
| 1:30.3 | Welcome, Blair. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Book to discuss this incredible longing, |
| 1:35.0 | finding myself in a near cult experience. A memoir. Congrats. |
| 1:39.3 | Thank you. I'm so happy to be here with you. Oh, I'm so happy to be here with you too. |
| 1:44.0 | Listeners, you should know that Blair's cousin is like one of my oldest best friends in the world. And it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy because you guys look alike. I feel like I've known you for my whole life. Anyway, it's very nice. Hi, Isabelle. Hi, hi, Isabel. Okay, this incredible longing. Tell listeners what your book is about. |
| 2:03.7 | My book is about my time leading up to and living in an ashram in my 20s in the 90s. |
| 2:11.9 | Amazing. |
| 2:12.9 | You start us off on this path with this coincidental moment you have while you're walking across |
| 2:19.1 | New York City, you hear this song and like some funny named shop. I can't remember the name. |
| 2:23.1 | The yo-yo shop or something. Something. Anyway. Actually, I got lost in Tompkins Square Park, |
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