Slow Book Tour Live at Anderson's Bookshop Chicago
The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary
Brooke McAlary
4.6 • 525 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
After a few technical hiccups Brooke and Ben were finally able to record one of their live podcast recordings while on the Slow book tour, and today's episode was recorded live at Anderson's Bookshop near Chicago.
The crowd was really engaged and Ben and Brooke had such a wonderful time talking about Slow, the practical realities of slow living and family life, their experience while travelling through the US and Canada for 8 months, and their plans for the future.
They also talk about privilege and slow living, and why Brooke firmly believes that slow living will change the world - by helping people create space and time to care more.
The live events have been such a highlight this year, and here's hoping 2019 brings more opportunity to get together with like-minded people!
Enjoy!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world. |
| 0:07.5 | My name is Brum McAllery. My name's Ben McCallory. Welcome to episode 258 where we're coming at you live from a |
| 0:15.7 | book tour event in Chicago. We are indeed. Well, we're not coming live here. We're coming |
| 0:21.7 | live in the actual episode. This was an episode recorded in the suburbs of Chicago. Yes, |
| 0:29.5 | in La Grange, I think La Grange Park or La Grange is the name of the suburb. It was the second |
| 0:35.5 | last event of the book tour in the States. So we recorded |
| 0:40.5 | that in September. It was such a fun night. Anderson's Bookshop. Anderson's Bookstore LaGrange. |
| 0:45.5 | So Anderson's has two or three stores around Chicago. But the cool thing about it is it has been |
| 0:51.6 | they're up to the sixth generation of family working and |
| 0:56.0 | running anderson's owning yeah so i mean go indie bookstores i reckon like always it just supported us |
| 1:01.9 | so well we've met so many good just wonderful book people yeah bookstores and that's where we've |
| 1:09.6 | got the most support and |
| 1:10.9 | audiences have been fantastic so yeah shop local go indie when you can exactly thank you |
| 1:16.6 | anderson's we were also joined at this event with source books because they're local to the area |
| 1:22.9 | yeah so source books is my my american publisher yeah so i actually finally got to meet the team who helped me bring the book together. |
| 1:29.8 | The book together. |
| 1:31.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.0 | I got to meet Grace, my editor. |
| 1:33.2 | I got to meet Liz, who was my publicist, Ashlyn and Lizzie. |
| 1:38.6 | So to meet that team of women was phenomenal because they've been so supportive. There's no way we could |
| 1:45.6 | have done this tour without them, quite literally. So that was awesome. We were also joined by a |
| 1:50.0 | wonderful audience. We were. I like events where they have to bring out more chairs. That was |
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