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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Zibby is joined by author, craft beer bar owner, and LGBTQ+ advocate Jillian Abby to discuss her humorous and heartwarming new memoir Perfectly Queer: Facing Big Fears, Living Hard Truths, and Loving Myself Fully Out of the Closet. Jillian reveals what it was like to come out as a lesbian at 38 years old after building a life with her husband and two children. Then, she talks about her “twisty turny career” (from CPA to massage therapist to executive storyteller), her perfectionism (and how she manages it), her popular TikTok page, and the surprising book she wants to write next!
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
0:06.7 | This 30-minute podcast features a new author interviewed by me every single day, 365 days a year, for about 30 minutes. |
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0:35.4 | And I recently opened a bookstore in L.A. called Zibby's Bookshop |
0:40.3 | at 1-1-1-3 Montana Avenue at 11th Street in San Monica. I hope that you are able to enjoy some of |
0:47.9 | our other offerings. But this here podcast is the basis of all of it and started in 2018. |
0:56.5 | And no matter what I do, this is basically my favorite thing. Enjoy. Jillion Abbey is the author of perfectly queer, facing big fears, |
1:06.8 | living hard truths, and loving myself fully out of the closet. This, by the way, was one of my |
1:11.9 | Good Morning America Top 15 books when I picked them in that article. Jillian has mastered |
1:18.1 | reinvention through her life to create the most whole and satisfying journey. She left the |
1:22.4 | comfort of her hometown of Buffalo, New York, to study abroad in Cautomba, Bolivia, at age 15. As an adult, her resume |
1:31.5 | includes certified public accountant, licensed massage therapist, craft beer bar owner, creative |
1:37.9 | copywriter, homeschooling parent, and black belt martial artist. Her most recent role as a newly |
1:43.6 | out lesbian and advocate for the |
1:45.5 | LGBTQ Plus community was by far her riskiest and most rewarding change. In addition to her debut |
1:51.9 | memoir, Perfectly Queer, from Hayhouse Publishing, she serves as a board member for the |
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