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7:23

What Showing Up Sounds Like

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/07/21

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for patterns.If you don’t have a teenager in your house, you might not have jumped onto the KPop Demon Hunters bandwagon yet. It’s an animated movie about (surprise!) a KPop girl group who hunts demons. Pretty straightforward setup, if you're open to a vital message delivered like a musical punch to the gut.- Patterns that we tend to hide- The magic of acceptance- The audacity of authorship- What to do with your writing demonsHey, thanks

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7:45

Making Peace with the Pause

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/07/16

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for resistance.The other day, a colleague posted a thread on LinkedIn about certain things that aren’t as scary as we were led to believe they’d be when we were kids in the ‘90s.Quicksand.Razorblades in Halloween candy.Spontaneous combustion.I’d like to submit to the record: Resistance.- The fear of resistance- The reality of resistance- A new way to look at resistance (especially for non-writers)Thanks for creating this space with me

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7:36

The Ocean Workbook: Ethos and Process

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/07/07

Welcome to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m going to read through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.Today, we’re reading from: Ethos and Process.To get the rest of the workbook right away, look for You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident on Amazon, or subscribe on Substack to get a free copy right now.And as always, whenever your book is ready to emerge, the space we made today will be

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19:58

Guided 5 Minute Outline: You Are the Pan

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/06/30

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. I’m B, midwife of big ideas and book development partner for writers and non-writers alike. And for the next few minutes, you are my author.Today, we’re making space for a magical Guided 5 Minute Outline.These exercises are usually pointed toward one specific kind of content, but this one is about remembering who you are.You can reach your people.It doesn’t even have to feel that hard.You don’t need to be perfect. You definitely don’t need to perform. You just

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5:02

Writing on Hard Mode

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/06/23

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. I’m B, midwife of big ideas and book development partner for writers and non-writers alike. And for the next few minutes, you are my author. Today, we’re making space for balance.Can a multipassionate, purpose-first change-maker find a routine so balanced that they’re actually satisfied?- The myth and misunderstanding of balance- The vulnerability of being honest- The stuff that makes this kind of writing so hardBe sure to subscribe on Substack or wherever you

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8:37

You Don't Get to the Ocean by Accident

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/06/09

Welcome to a special edition of B is for Book Coach. In these episodes, I’m going to read through pieces of You Don’t Get to the Ocean by Accident—the workbook version of the early work I do with all of my authors.If you want to follow along or jump ahead, pocket-sized copies are available on Amazon, and every Substack subscriber gets a fillable PDF copy as well.Today, we’re reading from: the

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14:20

Describing Water to Squirrels

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/06/02

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for perspective.A few weeks ago, one of my teenagers wanted to spend the day “body-doubling” at the library to make progress on the last of her eighth grade school work. I took the opportunity to get my own stack of tasks done, but not before I stepped inside to grab a book that one of my authors referenced as a complementary title. While scanning the numbers and titles to find that book, I paused on one with a rainbow gradient on the

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21:12

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Just Two Core Questions

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/05/26

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a simplified 5 Minute Outline.Over the past few months, I’ve been in the trenches of articulating the Clarity Spectrum—a new set of book categories based on what the author intends to create for a reader. In that process, I realized something key: The 5 Minute Outline revolves around just two questions.The two questions in the quiz. The two questions you can ask yourself at every stage of writing. The two questions that pull you out

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13:16

Story Shapes, Colored Pencils, and the Truth in Our...

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/05/19

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for genre.At roughly the midpoint shift of my career to this point, I made my way into the Story Grid universe. If you’re not familiar, “the Story Grid” is a story nerd’s dream, plotting entire fiction works onto spreadsheets to see how the arcs take shape.- Content genres vs sales genres- The shape of story that we play out all the time- The cost of living a story that's not ours- The nonfiction story shapes that have emerged from years

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10:48

When the Work Refuses to Be Rushed

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/05/12

Once upon a time, and somehow just yesterday, I hosted a season or two of another podcast. The theme was parenting, but through the lens of the “young witch” archetype in literature. And we did it all in a weekend, holed up in an AirBnB in Memphis, TN, with stacks of books all around us and the rain quietly falling outside.Witches or no, that work was magical.One of the stories we centered on came from Women Who Run with the Wolves, which I hadn’t read in full before that weekend. And then I still

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13:12

Vulnerability Cannot be Replicated

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/05/05

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. I'm B, midwife of big ideas and book development partner for nonfiction writers and non-writers alike. For the next few minutes, you are my author. And today, we’re making space for vulnerability.Think about your favorite books. What are those books about?If you sit with that question for a minute, you might come up with a long-ish answer about the depth that impacted you, the stories you were wowed by, the connections that they made.Good books are hard to put

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13:32

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Noticing Flow

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/04/28

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a special guided 5 Minute Outline. And this time, we're not going to outline anything at all.There’s nothing wrong with producing things, of course. Making something tangible out of the intangible is magic, by definition.But there’s a difference between alchemy and sleight of hand—and a true flow state is never an illusion.There is a not-so-small part of me that wishes I could finish this episode with a formula for you. That the 5

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7:46

Stuck Is Just Part of the Game

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/04/21

In the board game Candyland, who remembers getting stuck in the Molasses Swamp for ages and ages until you finally drew a double color? It's very possible that my family or friends or even I had made up some kind of masochistic house rule in order to make the game more difficult. But it seems so clear in my mind: if you were stuck in the Molasses Swamp, you were stuck-stuck.I would love to hear from you if you have any recollection of this game.More importantly, I would love to hear from if you feel

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8:47

Beginnings Are Hard...So We're Not Going to Start There

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/04/14

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space, for beginnings.I won't tell you that beginnings aren't important. The entire writing world can't be wrong (can they?). But neither will I spend time on how they are important. You already know. And that's the problem.- The pitfalls of the pressure to get first lines right- Why they're actually hard, and why that's ok- Permission to start elsewhere, and where that might beSubscribe here for weekly encouragement and insights, or subscribe

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11:23

This Project is a Metaphor for My Life

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/04/07

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for more. digging.We often face down the topics we're writing about while we're writing them. I don't mean “yes I'm writing this so of course I'm thinking about it.” I mean ordering pizza while stressed out during the last push of your book about healthy eating. Overworking while writing about the dangers of overwork. Hitting a new set of growth challenges while writing about entrepreneurial growth.- What it looks and feels like to get

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21:35

Guided 5 Minute Outline: Braiding Perspectives

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/03/31

Welcome to B is for Book Coach. I'm B, midwife of big ideas and book development partner for writers and non writers alike, and today, we’re making space for a guided 5 Minute Outline.Before I finalized this exercise and decided to go ahead with the episode, I looked for any insights Robin Wall Kimmerer had already given about her process of writing Braiding Sweetgrass. If there were contradictions or things that might make this exercise feel constraining or contrived, I wouldn’t do it.Happily, I

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6:59

The Difficulty of Digging

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/03/24

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for digging.Confession time: I do not think of myself as a writer.An editor, yes. A story nerd, definitely. A creator, sometimes. An operations director, once. A mom, a doula, a midwife-in-another-life, a bit of an herbalist, a bog witch? Sure. I know I'm an excellent ghostwriter. I do not think of myself as a writer. I see something different in the nature of writer that I don't relate to. - Writers and non-writers- The difference in

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7:28

How to Take the Drama Out of Cutting and Rewriting...

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/03/17

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for frogging.As a process-knitter, the product at the end just feels like a bonus compared to the process of the knitting itself. And I believe in the power of process-writing.- What "frogging" means in knitting and in writing- How to cut the melodrama around cutting content - What you need to enjoy the process of writingHey, you. With the book that won’t leave you alone, but that you don’t quite know how to finish? Yeah, you. Don’t stay

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13:49

Where Attention Becomes Intention

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/03/10

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for community.Braiding Sweetgrass is both an ecology book told through an Indigenous lens and a book of Indigenous wisdom focused on ecological topics. And if you're like me and catching up on all of the incredible reads that made waves while you were barely treading water—I highly recommend moving this one to the top of your list. In this episode, we're going to unpack a core lesson that I learned—and am still learning—from her wisdom.-

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22:43

Guided 5 Minute Outline: A Memoir Situation

B is for Book Coach ·

2025/03/03

Welcome back to B is for Book Coach. Today, we’re making space for a special guided 5 minute outline.Before we get into this week’s episode, I want you to understand that these outlines might take 5 minutes to map, but they represent a lifetime of your mastery.This is true more of memoir than any other nonfiction sub-genre.So when I say that we’re going to reverse-engineer Hannah Gadsby’s book Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation to create a 5 minute outline for your book, I’m not being

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