Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's on leadership series. I'm Scott

Miller and I serve as your host and interviewer each week. This week I'm

delighted to have Janice Kaplan as our guest, the author of the new book out today, The Genius of Women, the former

editor of Parade magazine, the author of 15 books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers,

one you probably heard of out recently

called The Gratitude Diaries.

Janice Kaplan, welcome to On Leadership.

Thanks, Scott.

It's such a pleasure to be here.

Hey, delighted to have you.

The book is out today.

It's in hardcover.

I was honored enough to have an advanced copy and soft cover.

As is my nature, I read the entire book.

The genius of women, delighted to have Here Today, and kind of get into some of the passion that you've brought to the book from your lifelong career and your research.

Before we actually get into the book, Janice, would you kind of acclimate our audience,

our listeners and viewers to your career, some of the books that you've written and perhaps

why you chose to write this, your 15th book, about the genius of a woman.

Well, thanks, Scott. You know, I've spent much of my career going back and forth

between being a television producer and a magazine editor, as you said I was was the editor of Parade and a writer.

And many of my books have been novels over the years.

And then after I left Parade, I switched to non-fiction, and I have been very passionate about the books that I write and this one in particular the genius of women is a subject that has just

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