Read The Damn Book

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...

Global recruiting expert, conscious leader, entrepreneur, and newly published author Dom Farnan joins Michelle this week. Dom shares with us her journey from burnout within a toxic corporate environment, to blossoming as a more mindful and compassionate leader who builds meaningful connections through her work with her company, DotConnect. She tells us about how she had to take a firm look at hers...

This week Michelle is joined by the incredible author, Sarah Levy.  She tells us all about her journey from the corporate world in NY city, to a successful published author.  Sarah also shares with us her powerful and brutally honest story of how she came to sobriety.  She shares with us how she found her group of people that supported her and helped her on her way to recovery, and how becoming so...

Have you ever felt the desire to write a book but have no idea where to even begin? This week Michelle talks with author and writing professor, Mary Otis, who shares with us how we can get started, what being a writer looks like, and her journey to becoming a writer. Mary also tells us all about her incredible new book, Burst, what inspires her to write, and what her writing rituals are that keep...

Have you ever wondered if you need a social media presence for your business? This week Michelle talks to social media expert, Cindy Zaweski, who started out as a journalist, tv reporter and producer, and who now has her own business Ascent StoryCraft, with which she helps people create content, strategy, and a solid plan for their social media. Cindy shares some incredible incites and information...

Have you ever stopped to wonder why your 24-hour day can look so different to someone else’s? Even when you have a window of time, or you schedule your week out to accommodate everything you must do, do you still find your to do list lingering at the end of the week? This week Michelle talks about how we may all have the same amount of time, but we definitely don’t all have the same 24 hours. Whet...

At some point in our life, I think we’ve all asked ourselves the question, ‘What is my purpose?’.  This week Michelle talks with the incredible Elizabeth Rosenberg, who specializes in helping people to discover their purpose, actualize it, and live it every day.  Elizabeth not only shares with us her journey as a PR professional, personal branding expert and founder of her own business, but she al...

This week Michelle talks to the fierce and talented Andrea Dunlop.  Andrea shares her experience of working in the publishing world, her journey to becoming a successful author of multiple books, her true crime podcast, and the inspiration behind her newest novel, Women Are The Fiercest Creatures.  Andrea and Michelle discuss the future of publishing, fiction vs non-fiction, the tech world, mother...

Have you ever thought about how your mindset works when it comes to money? Or what else is involved in your world and what can propel you forward? This week Michelle shares a very powerful conversation with Allyson Byrd about how she rediscovered her love of who she is, her love of people and her love of living her life the way she wants to live it.  Allyson now feels that she is filled with harmo...

This week Michelle gives us a wonderful look inside the world of getting a book published.  That’s right! Michelle shares her super exciting announcement of being published and tells us all about her journey from the beginning to the final stages. She shares with us the whole process including deciding what her book will be about, the lengthy process of writing a book proposal and what happens wit...

Have you ever listened to a podcast interview and thought to yourself how disengaged you feel from the speaker?  Did it feel like all they were interested in is your money and encouraging you to buy their product, service, or book? This week Michelle talks about how if all you want to get out of podcast interviews is an opportunity to sell, then they are not for you.   She shares real truths about...

Do you sometimes feel like you need to be everything to everyone all at once? Do you get distracted by the endless possibilities of things that you ‘should’ or ‘could’ be doing?  In this episode, Michelle talks about how this ‘Shiny Object Syndrome’ relates to your business and how it can prevent you from focusing on what is in front of you, ultimately taking you away from your true purpose. In Th...

This week Joann Zehenni shares her story about how she launched her own successful business at the incredible age of 17. Not only does her skincare line focus on helping people feel good in their skin every day, but the profits go towards research for lupus, which is a cause very close to her heart. Join us this week as Joann tells us all about how her business was born, what inspires her, and wha...

Do you think you have what it takes to be a good podcast guest?  Do you know the types of traits that encompass being a good podcast guest?  In this episode, Michelle goes over the important traits that you need to have to be a great guest. She dives into how to share your story in a way that will captivate your audience, while remaining authentic to your personal truth. In This Episode, Michelle...