Laura Belgray, TOUGH TITTIES: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-Ing Worst

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Zibby interviews award-winning TV writer Laura Belgray about her hilarious and wise collection of stories, Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You’re the F-ing Worst. Laura shares parts of her life story, from eating disorders, all-girls school, and hookups with bartenders to finally finding her passion (and her husband!). She also describes her career in writing (from TV promos to marketing emails) and shares her best advice for aspiring writers.

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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.
0:14.9	I am also the publisher for Zibi Books, which publishes 12 books a year in fiction and memoir.
0:21.9	Our books are already out now.
0:23.5	You can check it out on ZippyBooks.com.
0:25.6	And we have a magazine called Zibby Mag where we have lots of wonderful essays and lifestyle
0:31.2	features.
0:31.8	That's at Zibbymag.com.
0:33.1	We have classes at Zippy Classes.com.
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. Laura Belgrade is the author of Tough Titties on Living Your
1:06.3	Best Life when You're the Effing Worst. Laura is the founder of Talking Shrimp and co-creator of the copy cure with Marie Ferlao. She has been featured in Fast Company, Money Magazine, Forbes, Fox, and Business Insider, and has written for Bravo, Fandango, FX, NBC, HBO, USA, Nick at Night, Nickelodeon, TV land, VH1, and more. Belgrade lives with her husband in New York, and except for college, has never lived anywhere else. Not coincidentally, she doesn't drive. Welcome, Laura. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss tough titties on living your best life when you're the effing worst. Zimmy, thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Oh my gosh. I think we have to start with the beavers.
1:48.3	Beavers come first. Let's do it. Beaver talk.
1:52.2	In your book, we both grew up in New York and went to a similar school and I had a similar mascot and all of that very similar. And you're so funny in the
2:04.2	book when you talk about it, as you are with literally everything you talk about in the book
2:08.0	when you're like, okay, guys, like literally my mascot was a beaver. We had like a hundredth
2:13.0	centennial of beaver days on this. All girls school and they chose the beaver and celebrated with 100 years of eager beavers
2:22.8	pins.
2:26.0	Okay, so tell me about why you decided to take that memory, all your memories of sort of school
2:32.3	and growing up in ninth grade and it's going to studio and just
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