Lake Bell, ALL ABOUT BRAINS: A Book About People
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Acclaimed actress, screenwriter, and director Lake Bell joins Zibby to discuss her debut picture book, ALL ABOUT BRAINS, a joyfully whimsical exploration of all the ways people and their brains are different. Inspired by her own children, Nova and Ozzy, and their experiences with neurodivergence (including epilepsy, ADHD, and dyslexia), Lake shares the emotional journey that led her to write this empowering book. She and Zibby connect over shared parenting challenges and the importance of reframing diagnoses as superpowers. Lake also dives into her own struggles with dyslexia and how it shaped her creative process as a filmmaker and writer.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
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| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Lake Bell is the author of All About Brains, a book about people. Lake Bell is an |
| 0:49.4 | award-winning filmmaker and actress. In 2013, she received acc claim at the Sundance Film Festival for her debut |
| 0:56.2 | feature in a world, which she wrote, directed, and acted in. Lake has won a myriad of awards, |
| 1:02.1 | including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and in 2017, she directed her second feature, |
| 1:07.7 | I do until I don't, which she also wrote and started in. In addition to her |
| 1:11.8 | expansive film and TV credits, Bell authored her critically acclaimed audiobook entitled Inside |
| 1:17.3 | Voice, My Obsession with Howie Sound, with Pushkin Industries. For nearly 10 years, she has served |
| 1:23.1 | as a board member of women in film, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the success |
| 1:28.4 | of female peers in the entertainment industry. Born in Manhattan, Lake now lives in Los Angeles |
| 1:33.4 | with her two children and rescue animals. Welcome, Lake. Thank you so much for coming on totally |
| 1:37.9 | booked with Zibby to talk about all about brains, a book about people. Congrats. Thank you. Thank you so |
| 1:43.5 | much for having me. I love the rainbow |
| 1:45.3 | behind your head. I like that both holding this. You know, the other night was the first night |
| 1:51.4 | that marked my seeing, you know, the physical element. You know, I have all the kind of proofs |
| 1:57.8 | and everything. So it was quite special to open it up. And I haven't shown it to my |
| 2:01.8 | children yet. So, oh my gosh. Yeah, the actual, you know, hardcover. But so I got, I got to |
| 2:08.3 | show my kids before you showed your kids. It seems wrong. That seems like it shouldn't happen that |
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