Welcome, Debbie. Thank you so much for coming to the first ever live podcast. We're totally booked with Zivie. So glad you're here. Thank you, Zivie. It's an honor. Thank you. Yay. I'm going to read your bio really quickly for people who are in the audience and listening

or watching wherever they may be. So this is Debbie's amazing new book. How cute is this?

It's so beautiful. It's called Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman with recipes by Roxanne Gay,

who's her wife, if you didn't know that. Okay, ready.

Debbie Millman named one of the most creative people in the business by Fast Company, one of

the most influential designers working today by Graphic Design USA, and a woman of influence

by Success Magazine.

Debbie Millman is also the founder of the Masters and Branding Program at the School of

Visual Arts, partner and editorial director of printmag.com, and host of the award-winning

podcast, Design Matters, one of the first and longest running podcasts.

In the world, no pressure.

She is the author of seven books, and her writing and artwork have appeared in publications,

including the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer,

and many more. And it is illustrated by Roxanne Gay, and this is the book. Congratulations.

Thank you. Thank you. Tell everybody all about this little gem. How did this come to be? What is it about? Why are we talking about it?

Well, it's about my quest to become a gardener. And I wrote and illustrated the entire book. It came to be, I got completely out of the blue an email from an editor at Hachette Publications,

Heshet Press, one of the big four.

And it was from a woman who runs timber press, and it's their gardening imprint.

And apparently she had seen two things that I had done before.

During COVID, I had created some interstitials for the TED conference back when it went

completely online so that they'd have some content in between the talks.

And so I made three visual stories that I narrated,

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