Pam Sherman plays herself and so can you
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Pam Sherman took her superpower of inspiring others in acting, speaking, and work to write a helpful handbook to put your best foot forward. As Pam says, "You want to be who you are, wherever you are, in order to ignite your audience.” As a board member of Jewish Women International, Pam supports women, inspires leadership and shows what it takes.
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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. Pam Sherman is an actor, writer, leadership consultant, and recovering lawyer, |
| 0:49.7 | profiled in People magazine about her transition from lawyer to actor. Today, she speaks, facilitates, |
| 0:55.0 | and coaches leaders globally about finding their edge, explore, dream, grow, and excite. |
| 1:00.5 | Her book is called Play You, The Role of a Lifetime, Bridge the Believability Gap to |
| 1:05.8 | boost your confidence, connection, and impact. Welcome, Pam. Thank you so much for coming |
| 1:10.6 | on Totally Booked to talk about |
| 1:12.6 | play you the role of a lifetime. Bridge the believability gap to boost your confidence, |
| 1:17.1 | connection, and impact. Congrats. Thank you. Can I just say, I love that cover? It's a great cover. |
| 1:23.3 | It really is. It's so powerful and inspirational and shines a spotlight, which is what you do and what you are used to be being in. So that's great. |
| 1:33.9 | But that's the whole point is to shine on others, right? Like that was the feeling I wanted people to get so that this would draw them in and realize that it's not about you at all. It's about everybody that you |
| 1:45.5 | wish to impact lead and serve. And so the cover is really special to me. It needed to pop. |
| 1:53.0 | There you go. Pam, tell everybody first a little bit more about you. I've already read your bio |
| 1:58.9 | and all of that. But just take us through how you got to the |
| 2:02.0 | point where you were writing this book. Well, it actually goes back to when I was in the second grade. |
| 2:08.1 | Great. Let's go there. I used to dream of being an actor and I lived on Staten Island and I used to play |
| 2:15.0 | the piano with the door wide open, singing at the top of my lungs, |
| 2:18.9 | hoping that a Broadway producer would hear me sing and cast me on Broadway. |
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