Hey, all, welcome back to the Don't Mom alone podcast.

I'm your host, Heather McFaddean, and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you

and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.

And in this episode, number 519, I'm welcoming to the show, Melissa Radke.

And I sat at that table and nobody joined me for the first five minutes. And then someone walked over and said,

Hi, are you here by yourself? And I said, yes. And she said, then do you mind if I take this chair?

And then a third person came over. And then a fourth

person. And then it was just me and no more chairs. And I thought about the irony of that moment.

I've just written this book on community. And yet I'm sitting alone. And not only has no one

come and join me, they've taken my chairs. So one by one, people would kind of get up and I would see that a chair was empty

at their table. I never went and joined their tables. But what I did was make a table of my own.

So I would look for the woman who was looking for women. Melissa is a mom, a best-selling author,

speaker, and television personality, and she's won

all of our hearts with her funny and candid insights on life and love and the complexities

of the modern world.

She has a book called Eat Cake and Be Brave.

And her newest book, Chicken Fried Women, releases April 22nd.

And here's the deal.

You're going to want to go to our show notes.

You want to click the link, order a copy for yourself, first of all.

And then second of all, for your chicken fried women.

What do we mean by that?

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