Hi, everybody. I'm Carrie Diamond, and you're listening to Radio Cherry Bomb.

We're taking a little break today, so we're sharing one of our favorite episodes from The Vault.

Thanks for tuning in, and we'll be back next week.

Today's guest is Ina Garten. I'm sure you all know the barefoot contessa and love her, like the whole team at Cherrybaum does. I'm so excited to welcome Ina back to our podcast. She joins me in just a minute, and we talk about her highly anticipated memoir. Be ready when the luck happens. Speaking of luck, I was able to read an advance copy and I couldn't put it down.

Be ready when the luck happens will no doubt be a huge bestseller.

Stay tuned for my chat with Ina Garden.

There's a lot going on at Cherrybaum right now.

We're working on Jubilee.

Our big annual conference that's taking place at the Glass House in Manhattan on April 25th.

It's a beautiful day of connection, community, and great food and drink,

and we would love to see you there. Tickets are on sale right now at cherrybom.com. Now, let's check in with today's guest. Ina, welcome back to Radio Cherry Bomb. Thank you. I have to tell you, I love the book so much. I cried. I have laughed out loud so many times. I'm so glad. Thank you. I didn't want it to be. I went here. I did that. I said this. I wanted it to be fun to read and I wanted the stories to be fun, but I wanted them to have a point. I learned something, and I hope it's

interesting to you. Well, I think that comes through loud and clear. I want to ask you first,

though, why did you want to write a memoir? Well, I didn't. I have a very good friend,

Deborah Davis, who was my writing partner on this, who had written her own wonderful books like

Madame X and the party of the

century about Truman Capote's. The Black and White Ball, yeah. But she also has written

quite a few memoirs, including Oprah's and Tina Turner's. She'd been talking to me for about a year

about doing it. And I kept saying, oh, my life's not that interesting. I mean, who would care?

And she said, finally, after a year of conversations, at least, she said, you know, somebody's going to

write your memoir, and it should be you. And I went, whoa, okay. So the deal we made is that we would do it

together. She would help me with a lot of the research and the writing, but I was integrally involved

in every detail and that if at any point I thought it wasn't interesting enough, I could

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