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Totally Booked with Zibby

Gina Hamadey, I WANT TO THANK YOU: How a Year of Gratitude Can Bring Joy and Meaning in a Disconnected World

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In January 2018, Gina Hamadey Bergman decided to write thank-you notes during her commute instead of checking off other tasks on her to-do list. What resulted from a simple choice was an entire year spent conveying gratitude through handwritten notes as Gina decided to write a thank-you note per day to someone or something new in her life. Reflecting on her childhood and studying her relationships, Gina shows readers all of the joy that defined her year and how they too can begin their own note writing project.


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0:00.0

Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

0:07.0

I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,

0:12.2

which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.

0:16.8

All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.

0:20.4

And I'm the editor-in-chief of

0:21.9

moms don't have time to write a new publication on Medium. And we're accepting submissions.

0:26.8

So please send your personal essays there. And if all that isn't enough, you can follow me on

0:31.2

Instagram at Zibby Owens and my website is Zibby Owens.com. Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.

0:39.9

Listeners, if you enjoy this podcast, I promise you will love my new audiobook for moms don't have time to a quarantine

0:45.4

anthology. It's not about the quarantine, but a lot of the essays were written during that time

0:50.3

about other things that moms don't have time to do or other busy people. Things like reading, eating, working out, breathing, having sex, and 60 bestselling and

1:00.4

notable authors wrote essays.

1:02.4

All those authors have been on this very podcast.

1:04.9

So if you like to listen to my conversations, if you want to get to know these authors better,

1:08.9

I read the audiobook myself.

1:10.7

Check it out on

1:11.3

Audible. Moms don't have time to a quarantine anthology. Again, Audible, audiobook. Go listen to it. It's like 60 mini

1:19.2

podcasts. I hope you enjoy. Gina Hamaday Bergman is the author of I Want to Thank You, how a year of

1:24.3

gratitude can bring joy and meaning in a disconnected world. She was the travel editor at Food and Wine and Rachel Ray every day and started her career at the groundbreaking titles, Oh, the Oprah magazine, and George. She founded the content and social strategy firm, Pennknife Media, and has written for publications, such as The New York Times, Real Simple, and Elle, she currently lives in New York. Welcome, Gina. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books to discuss.

1:47.8

I want to thank you how a year of gratitude can bring joy and meaning in a disconnected world.

1:52.7

I truly could not be more thrilled to be here.

1:55.5

Oh. Your book was so great, and I literally was like completely inspired to try this project myself,

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