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Conversations about work, writing, & professional success with the women shaping our cultural landscape. An interview series now in its 3rd season.

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“I’m someone who thinks in seasons”: Stefanie O’Connell on her career as a writer

In this podcast interview, Stefanie discusses building a career through cold emailing, the strategy she used to grow her widely popular Instagram to over 94,000 followers and sell her first book, seeing peers as collaborators instead of...

“I set out to define my own values”: Helen Betya Rubinstein on her career as an author and writing coach

In this interview, Helen discusses how she accidentally stumbled into her current job, why changing her ideas about achievement is what she’s most proud of achieving, her most important condition for...

“I’ve been working on this for months”: The Postscript ep. 4

A personal note from me, with an update on my move to Croatia + a behind-the-scenes on my conversations with Candice, Alissa, and Sophie

“I wake up excited”: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau on her career as an author and mental health advocate

In this podcast interview, Sophie discusses the new chapter unfolding in her fifties, her daily practice of tracking micro-successes, the difference between breaking and being broken open, how she decides which opportunities to pursue and…

“I knew I would need to be my own safety net”: Alissa Wilkinson on her career as a movie critic and author

In this interview, Alissa discusses realizing she wanted something other than the 9-to-5 corporate life, how she made the transition from freelance writer to full-time staff writer, the most valuable thing…

“I didn’t figure it out till I was 40”: Candice Wuehle on her career as a novelist and cultural critic

In this interview, Candice discusses what it’s like to have an essay go viral, why she still prioritizes saying ‘yes’ to most opportunities, how she found success on Substack, her unexpected transition from…

“Everything was building to this”: The Postscript ep. 3

A personal note from me, with an update on my move to Croatia + a behind-the-scenes on my conversations with Sara, Claire, and Allison

“I decided to upend my very stable life”: Allison T. Butler on her career as an author and lecturer

In this interview, Allison discusses the life lessons she’s learned from those who taught her how not to behave, why she reads everything from YA fiction to highbrow classics, having felt unhappy despite...

“I never intended to publish it”: Claire Jia on her career as a novelist and screenwriter

In this podcast interview, Claire discusses spending a decade writing and revising her debut novel, the trip to Paris that changed everything, why she decided to abandon her goal of becoming an ambassador, what it was like going on a 16-city book tour...

“I would memorize paragraphs in my head”: Sara Nović on her career as an author and instructor

In this interview, Sara discusses becoming a New York Times bestseller, letting go of the ‘big writer’ advice that didn’t fit her life, the expectations that came with being the first in her family to...