Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books. And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer. Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love. I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.

You can find out more at Zibiowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.

And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.

Jessica Leahy is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Gift of Failure,

How the Best Parents Learned to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, and The Addiction,

Raising Healthy Kids in a Culture of Dependence. Over 20 years, Jess has taught every grade, from sixth to 12th inoculation, raising healthy kids in a culture of dependence. Over 20 years, Jess has taught

every grade from 6th to 12th in both public and private schools and spent five years teaching in a drug

and alcohol rehab for adolescents in Vermont. And she currently serves as a prevention and recovery

coach at Sana at Stowe, a medical detox and recovery center in Stowe, Vermont.

She writes about education, parenting, and child welfare for the Washington Post, The Atlantic,

and The Atlantic, and is a book critic for Air Mail.

Her biweekly column, The Parent Teacher Conference, ran for three years in the New York Times.

She designed and wrote the educational curriculum for Amazon Kids' award-winning

animated series, The Stinky and Dirty Show, and was a 2019 Push Guard Prize nominee for her

creative nonfiction magazine essay, I've Taught Monsters. Jess holds the dubious honor of having

written an article that was later adapted as a writing prompt for the 2018 SAT. She co-hosts the hashtag Am Writing Podcast

with bestselling author KJ, Del Antonio, and Serena Boehm, which, by the way, they had me on as a

guest, which was super nice. And she lives in Vermont with her husband, two sons, and a lot of dogs.

Welcome, Jessica. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss the addiction, inoculation, raising healthy kids in a cultural of dependence, and the gift of failure, how the best parents learn to let go so their children can succeed.

Thank you for all the bookmarks, which are fabulous. Oh, you're so welcome. The bookmarks are fun actually for speaking gigs because people always want

takeaways.

So if you put takeaways on the bookmarks, then people can actually literally take them away,

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