Read The Damn Book

In this solo episode of My Simplified Life, host Michelle Glogovac provides an update on her upcoming book launch and the challenges she has faced along the way. She shares her experiences with changes in her publishing team, the editing process, obtaining endorsements, and planning for the book launch. Despite the obstacles, Michelle remains determined to make her book successful and help others...

Author Brittany Means discusses her memoir "Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways," which covers Brittany's difficult childhood, the abuse she endured, and her journey of overcoming obstacles and achieving success. Brittany shares how writing has been a form of processing and healing for her and hopes her story can inspire others. What we’re talking about Writing can be a powerful tool for processing a...

In this episode of the My Simplified Life podcast, host Michelle Glogovac interviews Natalie MacLean, a drinks journalist and author of the book "Wine Witch on Fire." They discuss Natalie's personal journey with wine, her struggles with divorce and online mobbing, and her insights on the perception of wine drinking for women. Natalie shares her experiences and offers valuable lessons on finding ba...

Sarah Vogel, an attorney, and advocate who fought for family farmers in North Dakota during the 1980s farm depression, shares her experiences and insights into the importance of public policy, who we elect to office, and the mistreatment of Native American farmers and ranchers. What we’re talking about Public policy matters, and who you elect matters Family farming is closely connected to democrac...

Travis Albritton, CEO and founder of Honest Podcasts, shares his journey from rocket scientist to podcast producer. He discusses the challenges of starting a podcast, making money through podcasting, and the importance of being true to oneself. What we’re talking about Pivoting is easier in the beginning: The audience tends to be smaller, so experimenting and trying different things is easier in t...

Ashley Louise, co-founder of Ladies Get Paid, shares how women can negotiate higher salaries, promotions, and prices for their services. Ashley also shares her journey from working in tech startups to becoming an entrepreneur and co-founding Ladies Get Paid. She discusses the wage disparity between men and women and how men can be allies to support women in achieving pay equity. What we’re talking...

Patty Lin, a former screenwriter on hit TV shows like "Friends" and "Breaking Bad," shares her experiences in the entertainment industry, including the mistreatment she endured and how she eventually left the industry to write her memoir, "End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood." What we’re talking about The entertainment industry can be a toxic and abusive work environment, with many individu...

In this episode, host Michelle Glogovac discusses the importance of having a mindset focused on providing value to listeners and guests rather than solely on personal gain. She shares her thoughts on a pitch from a podcast host who asked, "what's in it for me?" in response to a client pitch, and explains the benefits hosts can gain from having guests on their show. What we’re talking about A podca...

This week Michelle deep dives into how podcast interviews can make a real change in the world.  Whether it’s as simple as brightening someone’s day because they no longer feel alone in their struggle or creating awareness of an issue on a much bigger scale such as the criminal justice system.  Podcasts can be a vehicle for spreading your message, explaining the why behind that message, and getting...

This week Michelle reflects on a year since her near-death experience and what it has taught her, what she is doing differently, and how she is putting herself first to live a life that makes her feel happy and fulfilled.  Join us this week as Michelle talks about how sometimes you just need to take a pause and think about what it is that is stressing you out and decide if it’s worth it. It’s not...

This week we are celebrating a Happy Pub Day! with the amazing author of four books, Michelle Wildgen. Michelle’s latest book, Wine People, which is out today is about ambition, friendship, and of course wine, and when they work together and when they work against each other. The book includes two of our Michelle’s favorites things, wine and people, and although you don’t have to drink wine, or kn...

This week Michelle is joined by Genevieve Wheeler, author of the hugely successful book, Adelaide. Genevieve’s book touches on mental health, romance, grief, love, relationships, trauma, friendships, and so much more.  This is a book that is relatable, heartbreaking, beautiful and thought provoking all at once, and we are so excited for you to hear how this story came about from Genevieve herself....

Get ready to have your day brightened! Today’s episode is all about happiness and our guest is Jessica Weiss, the happiness expert.  Now you may be rolling your eyes at that, but trust us, every tip and tool Jessica offers is realistic and makes complete sense when you think about it, and there’s so much to this topic that you may not have even thought about.  Career happiness, friendship happines...

This week on the show we get to wish an amazing author a Happy Release Day! Sandra A. Miller joins Michelle this week to tell us all about her fabulous new book, Wednesdays at One, and how her husband’s career and their real-life stalker inspired the story. She talks about the journey to being published and how it definitely wasn’t an overnight process, and she shares some wonderful words of encou...

This week Michelle is tackling a question that she gets asked a lot, does podcast size matter? We’re talking download numbers, reach, number of followers, do those numbers really make a difference? When pitching to podcasts, is it important how big of a podcast can we land? Michelle goes into detail on podcast stats and how important they are when you’re a guest on a show. She also touches on the...

This week Michelle is joined by author, cultural critic, career coach, and the queen of BookTok and TikTok, Leigh Stein. While originally wanting to be an actress, Leigh moved to NYC to go to acting school where she was writing and publishing stories at the same time.  After her first short story was published in a literary journal, she started to think that perhaps writing was her true path, mayb...

This week we are so fortunate to have Matt Gilhooly on the show. Matt is a fellow podcaster who created the powerful, motivating, and incredibly moving podcast, The Life Shift. The show features candid, real and free-flowing conversations that Matt has with his guests around pivotal moments in their life that changed everything for them. Matt has quickly become a friend of the show and the team, a...

This week Michelle talks about failure, and how if you put your mind to it and put in the effort, you really can’t fail. Michelle tells us a little about her background and how she started out in corporate aviation, and along the way ended up falling in love with podcasting, and how this doesn’t mean she failed, she just pivoted and chose a different path on her journey.  Join us as Michelle share...

This week on the show we wish Jane Delury a very Happy Book Launch Day! Michelle chats with the incredible professor and author, Jane Delury, who tells us all about her new book, Hedge. It’s jam packed with relationships, marriage, affairs, mother/daughter relationships, parenting, co-parenting, families, and mothers and all the different relationships that as a woman you may experience.  Jane tel...

This week’s episode is for the authors! After everything shut down during the pandemic, and book tours got cancelled, authors found themselves without that opportunity to make themselves visible and promote their books, so Michelle created a podcast book tour. In this episode Michelle explains what a podcast book tour is, what it entails, who can benefit from it, and so much more.  If you’re an au...

The incredible MaryCatherine (MC) McDonald joins Michelle this week. MC is trauma researcher, author and certified life coach who has spent over a decade researching trauma, grief, and resilience.  She is here to tell us all about how she got to where she is today, her own trauma experience, her work on redefining trauma, and her new book, Unbroken, which debuted in March.  This is such a wonderfu...

In this week’s episode Michelle sits down and shares with us the differences between podcast hosting and podcast guesting.  What exactly is a host and what does it entail? What are the benefits of being a host rather than a guest on someone else’s show? What are the downsides of being a host vs that of a guest? Michelle answers all these questions and more, so if you have ever wondered which path...

Julie Chavez joins Michelle this week to talk about her life as a librarian, mother, new author, and writer.  She tells us about how she went from thinking she was going to have a career as an OBGYN, to becoming the newly published author of her first novel, ‘Everyone but Myself’, and all that came in between.  Join us this week for a hilarious conversation about finding your true passion and embr...

On this week’s show Michelle is joined by another incredible author, Megan Tady.  Megan talks to Michelle about her background in journalism and yoga, and how that led her to running her own business as a writer and editor.  She shares with us what her writing process is, the inspiration behind her new book, Super Bloom, and how publishing her first novel completely changed her life.  This convers...

This week Michelle is joined by Health Chef, Nutritionist, and mom, Jess Krux.  Jess tells us all about the beauty and grace of keeping things simple when it comes to food.  She believes that food is the source, and it can also be the medicine.  Through her work using food as a medium for health, and by co-hosting yoga and culinary wellness retreats, Jess shares her love of food, building connecti...