Young Writing Protege Becomes A Teacher And Rediscovers Her Passion For Writing The Adventures Of Jelly Bean!

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Mike Litton

Business, Kids & Family, Parenting, Careers

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Amy Pollack was born and raised near Morristown New Jersey in Summit New Jersey. She enjoyed playing outside as a kid until she had to come in for dinner. She enjoyed writing creative stories about Jelly Bean and telling them in front of her class as a fourth grader. She was encouraged by her teacher and later her mother-in-law. She was a teacher for forty years. The stories of Jelly Bean came back to the forefront when the Covid shutdown took place. It forced her to pull her notes and stories out and work on them again. She eventually found a publisher that was interested and her first book was published. She is currently working on her third book that will be released in the next few months. More about Amy: “Amy Meislin Pollack was a teacher for over four decades, raised three children, and loves to play with her seven grandchildren. From her own childhood to the classroom and as a parent and grandparent, she is perfectly positioned to pen her coming-of-age book series.

The Adventures of Jelly Bean, followed by The Further Adventures of Jelly Bean, first came into being when the author’s fourth-grade teacher used to ask her to get up in front of the class and tell the stories about this character she would make up as she went along. Several years later she started writing these stories down, and would work on them periodically in any free time she had during her teaching career and raising her three children. Now retired from a 40-year career in teaching – spanning a wide range of subjects and grade levels – she has embarked on a lively writing career. The silver lining of the Covid pandemic for Pollack was that she was more or less forced, after approximately 60 years, to finish her Jelly Bean books. Her books are about a young girl whose life is always changing and how she adapts to these changes. She tries to work out relationships with her friends, her parents, her older brothers, her uncle. Her parents do not want her best friend, who is of mixed race, to visit. Another friend is anorexic. One brother drops out of school. A grandparent dies.”

Thank you for being our guest on The Mike Litton Experience Amy! You are amazing!

For more information about the Jelly Bean stories visit: https://www.adventuresofjellybean.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mike Litten Experience Podcast.
0:05.0	Mike has over 31 years experience in real estate, finance, and investing.
0:11.0	He's passionate about being a father, a teacher, a realtor, an investor, and a leader.
0:18.0	Everyone has a story and our passion is to help them tell it. And now introducing the host of the Mike Litten experience, Mike Litten.
0:28.0	So what can you expect from the Mike Linton experience? You can expect stories that will inspire,
0:37.6	motivate, advice that will sharpen your focus, and expert information on real estate, finance, and market conditions.
0:47.0	Amy Pollack, thank you so much for being our guest on the Mike Litten experience.
0:52.0	I'm so excited for our time together.
0:54.0	Like we talked about before we hit record, everybody has a story and our passion is to help them tell it.
1:01.0	So with your permission, we're going to start with where you were born,
1:03.8	go all the way up to today, and then we want to talk about these books that you're writing and
1:08.5	how excited we are about them, Okay. Great.
1:13.0	Well, thanks for being here.
1:14.0	So where were you born?
1:16.0	Okay, so, I was born in Marristown, New Jersey.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:22.0	In uh, January. And let's see from the earliest age I always loved reading and writing and then how I started my jelly bean stories was when I was in fourth grade so when I was age nine, my teacher would call me to the front of the room to tell these stories about a mischievous little girl named Jelly Bean. I would tell these stories off the top of my head and all the kids my classmates seem to love them. So I went up periodically, usually, you know, before a holiday or when there was downtime.
2:07.3	And I didn't really start writing them down a little while later.
2:12.6	And then, you know, I was in school, then I was in college,
2:18.8	then I was in graduate school, then I was teaching,
2:21.3	then I got married and had children and then helping out with so I had my own three kids and I helped out with I helped out with my parents when they were sick and dying and my mother-in-law
2:36.1	similarly and she had always
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