Stephanie Danler, STRAY: A MEMOIR

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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I’m obsessed with Stephanie Danler’s brilliance. She's the author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter and the executive producer of the Sweetbitter series on Start (which Kyle and I started watching last weekend - so good!). Her latest book, Stray: A Memoir, is set to release in May of 2020 so you can pre-order it now. This forceful and emotional book explores Stephanie’s life as a child raised by an addicts and alcoholics, the damage she inherited, and the journey to move forward towards a different way of life. This book has gotten me out of my own head more than almost anything else lately because it’s just so immersive and beautifully written. Stephanie and I discussed her choice to start this book when her son was five months old, why she had to move several time zones away in order to find the focus to create, and the hardship of writing about such deeply rooted traumas. Stephanie shares her extremely stressful coronavirus experience and the idea that we are all grasping for the illusion of control at this moment in time. I loved Stephanie’s advice to just finish what you start and so much more. I couldn’t wait for her pub day to share this given all of our talk about what’s going on RIGHT NOW. I promise it will help you through.

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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.
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0:21.2	Today's episode has been sponsored by Good Pods.
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0:28.9	podcast junkie friends and other people you admire to see what podcasts they're listening
0:33.1	to.
0:33.6	And it's all by episode.
0:35.6	So I know I have my own podcast, but even I find myself overwhelmed by how many episodes there are of other podcasts and what I should listen to next.
0:44.1	So Good Pods is still in beta, and they're looking for testers who will give them honest feedback.
0:48.6	So you can go to Good Pods on the App Store or Google Play and check out which podcast your friends are listening to.
0:55.2	And by the way, go on there and show them that you're listening to my podcast. That would
0:59.3	really be awesome. So anyway, Good Pods was founded by a friend I used to work with many moons ago
1:05.4	in, I guess, 1999, which really ages me here. But anyway, JJ Ramberg and I used to work together at a big company called Idealab.
1:14.5	If anybody heard of that, she was with a site called Cooking.com, and I was with Idealab.
1:18.7	And now she started good pods, among many other endeavors that she's done.
1:22.5	And this she's done with her brother, Brad Ramberg, who was also at Idealab with me.
1:26.6	So it all comes full
1:28.0	circle. So anyway, thank you to JJ and Brad and everybody at Good Pods for sponsoring this
1:33.5	episode and for making a new searchable listening tracking thing for podcasts, which is going
1:40.1	to be super helpful in helping people find great podcasts, hopefully like mine. Thank you.
1:45.7	I'm excited to be talking to Stephanie Danler today, who's the author of the international
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