Leslie Lehr, A BOOB'S LIFE

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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“I understand how the culture created this situation where we all had these expectations for our lives that has to do with having boobs and how we judge ourselves and what our expectations are with the other sex." Author Leslie Lehr shares why she was inspired to write a book about, well...boobs. She discusses why she doesn’t let breast cancer define her, and talks with Zibby about the importance of self-care.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.0	I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology,
0:12.2	which you should run out and buy called Moms Don't Have Time to, a quarantine anthology.
0:16.8	All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research.
0:20.4	And I'm the editor-in-chief of Moms Don't Have Time to Write a new publication on Medium.
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0:34.8	Okay, now back to this amazing podcast.
0:39.8	Leslie Lair is the author of Aboob's Life, how America's obsession shaped me and you. Leslie explores the duality of today's
0:47.1	women to navigate a new path between sexy and sacred. She's a prize-winning novelist and
0:52.1	nonfiction writer whose books include
0:54.2	what a mother knows, a target recommended read, wife goes on, and 66 laps, which was winner of
1:00.1	the Pirates Ali Faulkna Prize. Her non-fiction books include, Welcome to Club Mom, Club
1:05.0	Grandma, excerpted on Fisherprice.com, and Wendy Belissimo, nesting, featured on Oprah. Leslie's personal essays have appeared
1:12.2	in the New York Times Modern Love column and was narrated by Katie Couric on NPR, HuffPost,
1:18.1	Your Tango, and in anthologies including Mommy Wars, The Honeymoons Over, and On Becoming Fearless.
1:23.5	She wrote the original screenplays for the indie romantic thriller Heartless and the comedy drama Club Divorce.
1:29.3	Leslie has also worked in film production, including Prince's Sign of the Times, Charles Bukowski's Barfly, and the cult thriller Witchboard.
1:36.8	She has a BA from the U.S.E School of Cinematic Arts where she won a student Emmy and an MFA from Antioch, a breast cancer survivor.
1:46.7	She is chemo chick on sick of pink.com.
1:52.0	Leslie is the novel consultant for Truby Rider Studio and taught for 10 years in the writers program at UCLA.
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