Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor.

And it is our September three things. Yes. I'm in a very fall mood today. It is the most beautiful,

crisp, cool morning. And I have some fall-ish three things for us. Oh, I'm excited.

I only have two things.

That's okay. Okay. I just, I needed to come clean immediately. I've never had only two things before. I accept. I think one of mine we can kind of share. Okay, great. Before we get into that, though, tell me your high. My high, and I should preface now that I do have a bit of a cold, which I will get to in my low. So I'm sorry if my voice sounds a little wonky. But my high

is that I somehow managed to get a blurb for Little One from Liz Moore, who is like one of my

heroes, as Bound on Paper listeners,

will know. And I have been so, like, flattered by every single blurb I've gotten. But this one

was really special to me, and I wanted to talk about it because I think it's a good lesson

in just believing in yourself enough to take a chance. And so the background of

this blurb story is that I truly had zero plans to reach out to Liz Moore for a blurb. I have

no connection to her. We have never met. We have never interacted on social media. She does not

know I exist. Like I had no email. I had no

contact. I had nothing. And it never crossed my mind to ask her for a blur because she is Liz Moore.

And I was like, I don't know. To me, it's like asking Stephen King or something for a blurb. Like,

that's what it feels like to me.

So I wasn't going to.

It didn't even enter my brain space.

And then I read this interview maybe, I don't know, maybe six to eight months ago, a long time ago.

And in it, she was talking about some of her experiences growing up with body image and food, and they were

so similar to some of mine. I mean, like, I could have written some of the answers myself

that I just felt this gut instinct to reach out to her. And I still didn't know how. I didn't

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