Hey friends, thank you so much for being here today.

Always love to have you along.

And today I'm chatting with Shauna Nequest, who is a beautiful writer,

and she is a book that I think you are really going to love hearing about and the book is called

I guess I haven't learned that yet and I was like, that is a title I like.

So, let's dive in.

I'm Sharon McMahon.

And welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

I'm so excited to have Shauna with me today.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Thank you for having me.

This is such a pleasure.

It's been fun reading your books over the years and I'm excited for you to have another book

birthed out into the world. Why don't you tell people a little bit more about what you do, what your work is about? I will absolutely do that, but first I do want to say,

I love the work that you're doing. I love it. I'm totally a fan of it. We are so deeply in need of the conversation that you're having right now and you're doing it so well with so much wisdom and with humor and in a really creative way. I'm like I'm totally a fan and all my friends are fans like I so nice people from all

different parts of the country and all different political backgrounds I think find

you as a voice that they can listen to in a time when it's tricky to find that.

So I just didn't want to do anything without saying like thank you so much for the work that you're doing.

I'm totally cheering you on.

I will now answer the question you ask me to answer. So I am a writer. I've been a writer for more than 15 years. I have a new book coming out that is sort of like the fifth in a series and I am a lifelong mid-Westerner. I grew up

outside the suburbs of Chicago and lived in Michigan and that's where my extended

family is and then three years ago my husband and I and our two boys moved to Manhattan which is a major life change and like a really fun one and so that's what this new book is all about.

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