Marisa Renee Lee, Long Covid, and Hope
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Marisa Renee Lee shares her battle with long Covid on top of her other excruciating losses in Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty. We spoke at Totally Booked: Live at the Whitby Hotel, where she delighted the crowd with her big laughs, delightful personality, and optimism in the face of devastating circumstances.
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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 |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 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 zibbmedia.com and follow me on Instagram |
| 0:40.2 | at Zibby Owens. Marissa Renee Lee is the author of Waiting for Dawn, Living with Uncertainty. |
| 0:48.9 | Marissa is a cul-de-on expert in coping with grief. In 2008, after a courageous battle, she lost her mother to cancer. |
| 0:55.8 | This loss transformed her life and led her to question what grief really is and what healing |
| 1:00.2 | truly requires. She is now a rabble rouser of social hearing, former appointee in the Obama White |
| 1:05.3 | House, managing director of My Brothers Keeper Alliance, co-founder of the digital platform support all, and founder of |
| 1:12.9 | the Pink Agenda, a national organization dedicated to raising money for breast cancer care, |
| 1:17.5 | research, and awareness. She is a regular contributor to Glamour, Vogue, MSNBC, and CNN, and a |
| 1:22.6 | graduate of Harvard. She lives with her husband, Matt, son Bennett, and Doug Sadie. Welcome to Totally Booked Live. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm here with Marissa Renee Lee. |
| 1:31.5 | I'm so excited to be with her to talk about waiting for Dawn, living with uncertainty. |
| 1:36.0 | Welcome. |
| 1:39.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:40.6 | This is great. |
| 1:41.3 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:42.3 | I was just saying to you, you have been through a time |
| 1:44.7 | since we last saw each other. Yes, yes, unfortunately. A lot of it is in this book, and why don't you |
| 1:51.7 | share just a few of the things? Marissa has, oh my, it's just, oh my gosh, share away. It's been a time. |
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