Laura Cathcart Robbins, STASH: My Life In Hiding
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by debut author, speaker, and host of the popular podcast The Only One in the Room, Laura Cathcart Robbins, to discuss her propulsive and emotionally riveting new memoir Stash: My Life in Hiding, which details her drug and alcohol addiction, divorce, and journey to sobriety. Laura talks about her relationship with her ex-husband and how she ensured his privacy was respected in writing this book. She also shares the details of her childhood, touching on her stepfather’s abuse; her complex relationship with her powerhouse lawyer; the pressures she felt to embody Black excellence while hiding her demons; and the inspiration behind her incredible book cover.
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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. |
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| 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 Cathcart-Robbins is the author of Stash, my life in hiding. |
| 1:07.8 | Laura is an author, freelance writer, speaker, and host of the popular podcast, the only one in the room, which, by the way, she was kind enough to invite me to be a guest on, which I did, and it was really fun. Her work has appeared in HuffPost, The Tempest, and More. She lives in California. This book was so good. Welcome, Laura. Thank you so much for coming on moms. don't have time to read books to discuss stash my life in hiding. |
| 1:11.7 | Yay. Thank you, Zivvy. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. Oh my gosh. It's my pleasure to have you. Thank you, by the way, for having me on your wonderful podcast, the only one in the room podcast. My pleasure. It's great. I know you listeners can't see this right now, |
| 1:45.1 | but Laura's wearing this very cool black sweater with like embroidered stash written on it |
| 1:49.9 | with some very fun little, I don't even know how to describe. |
| 1:54.0 | Embellishments. |
| 1:54.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:55.8 | Really awesome. |
| 1:57.1 | Best to swag wear I've ever seen of a book. |
| 1:59.4 | So Laura, I was starting to say like I peeked into this book, which I had read in an earlier draft, |
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