Tina Wells, HONEST JUNE
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Zibby is joined by the founder of RLVNT Media and middle-grade author Tina Wells to talk about her latest book, Honest June, which is now out exclusively at Target. The two talk about the role magazines like Cosmopolitan and Seventeen played in the early days of their careers, what inspired Tina to start writing middle-grade novels, and how her marketing research still impacts everything she does today.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.1 | If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids. |
| 0:12.9 | Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do. |
| 0:17.9 | All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy. |
| 0:25.7 | Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium. |
| 0:28.5 | And of course, my new publishing company called Zivie Books. |
| 0:32.3 | And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids. |
| 0:36.9 | Hi. |
| 0:37.4 | Hi. Hello hello enjoy the show |
| 0:39.1 | tina wells is the author of honest june tina is a business strategist advisor and author recognized |
| 0:47.3 | by fast companies 100 most creative people in business essences 40 under 40 and more for over two |
| 0:53.4 | decades she led Buzz Marketing Group. |
| 0:55.6 | An agency, she founded at age 16, with clients like Dell, the Oprah Winfrey Network, |
| 1:00.5 | Kroger, Apple, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, and American Eagle that Tina connected with her network |
| 1:06.2 | of 30,000 buzz spotters and 7,000 mom spotters, all influential millennials and passionate |
| 1:12.3 | and consumers. Since 2018, Tina has also been leading Elevation Tribe, a community and quarterly |
| 1:18.4 | publication she created to help women launch, grow, and lead their businesses with a focus on |
| 1:22.8 | women of color. Tina is also the author of seven books, including the best-selling tween fiction series, |
| 1:28.7 | McKenzie Blue, and its spin-off series, The Z-Files. |
| 1:32.1 | She recently released Honest June, which came out through Target, and she'll talk all about |
| 1:36.8 | that. |
| 1:37.2 | She also authored the marketing handbook, Chasing Youth Culture and Getting It Right in 2011. |
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