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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Zibi Owens. She is a writer,

a podcast host, a publisher, a bookstore owner. She's doing all of these things under the umbrella

Zibi Media, which has been taking the publishing world by storm the last few years.

You might know her from her successful podcast called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

I came to know her because she and I used to work together about 20 years ago in the craziness of the dot-com era of 99 and 2000 at a really fun company called Idealab here in New York City.

Her latest book is the hit novel, Blank. Zibby, welcome to the show.

Thank you. Love hit novel. Let's hope.

Oh, it's terrific. We'll certainly get to that in the conversation. But first, I'm excited about your drink selection the apparel sprits

which i have had before many times clearly doing something wrong with my own podcast that i

don't offer alcohol but um this is how you lower the big time guests that's right well it's never

too late to put a little booze in your podcast um this is really it's like a great day drink or a lunchtime drink to the extent anyone can

pull that off.

Although we're pulling it off today, so it's not impossible.

Let me know if you need help.

I know how to wrestling with the apparel cap.

All right.

I had to look this up again.

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