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

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Jennifer Rudolph Walsh is the editor of the anthology Hungry Hearts, Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging. Jennifer has sat as

the nexus of entertainment at media for nearly 30 years. She was W. IME's sole female board member

and global head of its literary, lectures, and conferences

divisions, and she represented such luminous clients as Oprah Winfrey, Bernay Brown, Alice Monroe,

and Sue Monkid. In 2016, she co-founded Together Live, a traveling intersectional women's tour

driven by the mission of finding purpose and community through authentic and heartfelt storytelling. Over four years, the tour visited 35 cities, lit over 50,000 souls on fire,

and produced three seasons of a widely streamed podcast. She serves as a board advisor to see her,

the National Book Foundation, and her alma mater, Kenyon College. After a lifetime in New York

City, Jennifer

relocated to San Francisco to walk beneath the Redwoods with her family and three dogs.

Welcome, Jennifer. Again, sorry for the tech slip up. But anyway, welcome back to moms don't have

time to read books. It's great to have you here to discuss your anthology, hungry hearts, essays

on courage, desire, and belonging. Welcome. Thank you so much for having me. And I love being in the presence of a fellow book lover and a fellow anthology author. I feel like I'm right at home here. So I'm grateful. I can't believe we haven't met until now. I was like reading your introduction. And I was like, oh my gosh, I have to meet this woman. How do I not know her? So it's amazing. Thank you. So, okay, you were just starting to tell me about how this got started and how the pandemic sliced into your plans as well. Tell me about starting your whole enterprise and your intersectional love affair. So I spent the last 30 years as a

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