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Totally Booked with Zibby

R. Eric Thomas, HERE FOR IT

Totally Booked with Zibby

Zibby Owens

Connection, Inspiration, Moms, Entertainment, Arts, Reading, Books, Parenting, Literary

4.4602 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

R. Eric Thomas is the author of a collection of essays called Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America. A senior staff writer at elle.com where he has written the pop culture and politics humor column Eric Reads the News since 2016, Eric has also been published by The New York Times and is a long-running host of The Moth StorySLAMs. I loved talking to Eric about going viral, figuring out where the humor is in the hard moments, finding the narrative arc in each story, and that the reason we keep trying is to see what the next chapter brings us. Reading his fantastic, humorous essays feels like you're listening to him talk because he has such a clear voice as a writer - listen on to hear our conversation! 

 


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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast.

0:12.1

Moms don't have time to read books. Please sign up for my newsletter at Zibbyowens.com for updates on podcast guests and lots of live events.

0:20.9

Hi everybody.

0:22.0

I hope this week you'll check out We Found Time, my new online magazine, where we have essays

0:26.6

this week by bestselling author Jill Santopolo, who wrote The Light We Lost.

0:31.0

It's about her working out.

0:32.4

V.C. Chickering, Alison Kane, Melissa Schultz, and Ashley Prentice Norton, who wrote the chocolate money, which I loved.

0:40.2

They have written five amazing, beautiful essays, and you should go check them out at wefoundtime.com.

0:45.8

This week's sponsor I'm really excited about is peeled snacks, and I've been buying peeled snacks for a long time, so I'm super excited.

0:53.1

They want to be a sponsor.

0:54.4

My particular favorites are the Apple Gently fruits, but I'm also now obsessed with the salty

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snacks they have, particularly the baked pea crisps in sea salt flavor, which are delicious and

1:07.4

amazing to have stocked now in the midst of this pandemic because they're healthy

1:11.9

and I don't feel guilty giving them to the kids.

1:15.4

The fruits, too, are made with no added sugars, so that also makes me feel good since I

1:19.5

alternate those with fruit loops.

1:21.1

Anyway, peeled snacks is giving my listeners.

1:23.5

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discount code is capital Z for Zibi 15. So go to peeled snacks, Zibi 15. You get 15% off,

1:37.8

stuck up on some of these awesome, healthy dried fruits and salty snacks. By the way, the baked pea puffs with butter and sea salt are also really awesome.

1:49.4

So you'll know what I'm snacking on and we can snack together.

1:53.0

Thanks so much to field snacks for being a sponsor.

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