Best Lisa Rowell Podcasts (2024)

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9 | Kila Gonzales Founder of I Will Carry You 39:41

1h ago39:41

39:41

I met Kila Gonzales over the phone a few years ago as she was starting up her nonprofit. She was my answer to a prayer. She runs a non profit called ⁠I Will Carry You: Birth and Bereavement Doula Services.⁠ Her nonprofit serves the families who have received a terminal diagnosis and families whose babies will be born still. Kila has an amazing stor…

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New Ways of Thinking About Memoir, featuring Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa 56:28

3d ago56:28

56:28

For our final summer round up of our favorite shows, Write-minded chose Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa, highlighting two bright lights in the Memoirsphere who are elevating the genre and showcasing new ways of thinking about memoir. It’s an exciting time to be a memoirist and a memoir reader, and if you missed these two interviews the first time ar…

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8 | Retreating and Being Obedient 21:00

3h ago21:00

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This week I talk about how I learned to retreat the way Jesus did and how I learned to be obedient as I started to dive into the scriptures. As I went away to gather my thoughts I found out how God was calling me into ministry and how that was going to look like. LETS STAY CONNECTED: Link Tree Instagram Facebook Twitter Website Give if you feel led…

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Fiction Outliers, featuring Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas 51:11

5h ago51:11

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In celebration of the kind of fiction readers love but the industry doesn’t always know what to do with comes two past episodes honoring fan fiction and gothic fiction, respectively. Revisiting these episodes is a reminder of the vast world of fiction outside the narrow confines of upmarket or commercial or historical fiction. Our two past guests, …

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7 | Clint Davis Building Better Bridges with you children. Are you neglecting your child's sexual health because of your own trauma? 44:55

7h ago44:55

44:55

Clint Davis wrote the book that we all didn't know we needed. Building Better Bridges is the key to finally having the confidence to have "the conversation" we need to have with our children. Do you ever feel like you need a guide for what to say to your children about the most important topics in their childhood? Do you want to understand why our …

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Self-Exposure and Writing the Story You Have to Write, featuring Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito 48:03

8d ago48:03

48:03

In this second week of Write-minded’s August mashups, we bring back the heartfelt interviews with Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito, both of whom spoke so honestly and supportively about writing and sharing stories they’ve carried with them their entire lives. Javier’s harrowing journey from El Salvador to the US border when he was just nine years o…

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6 | Dawn V. Collins tells us how she got involved in stillbirth and birth work. 50:15

7d ago50:15

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Dawn V. Collins is a dear friend, founder of ⁠Birth Matters b/c Family Matters⁠ and a Louisiana Count the Kicks Ambassador talks about how God called her into birth work and how to address Stillbirth as a doula. Dawn has never had a stillbirth however she has chosen to be trained so she is able to address it with all her clients. Dawn can be reache…

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Wisdom from the Publishing Trenches, featuring Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt 48:16

8d ago48:16

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Every August Grant and Brooke share their summer plans and writing aspirations and hopes and fails, along with some mashups of their favorite interviews of the year. Write-minded kicks off this best-of series with two beloved industry experts—agent Lisa Leshne and publicist Kathleen Schmidt. There’s real wisdom and straight-talk in these conversati…

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Getting Reinspired after Failed or Abandoned Book Projects, featuring Paolo Bacigalupi 48:20

27d ago48:20

48:20

Most writers either have or will have a failed or abandoned book project—or two, or three, or four—over the course of their lifetimes. The more you write, the more crisis moments you’ll face. It can be hard to come back from those moments, which is why this week’s episode with Paolo Bacigalupi is so encouraging. He shares with us his journey back f…

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5 | Camila Caster with PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy shares her surrogacy stillbirth story. 21:42

1M ago21:42

21:42

Camila Caster with ⁠PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy⁠ shares her story on her perfect surrogacy pregnancy that ended in stillbirth. She shares if she had more education on things to look for in pregnancy how she could have saved her baby. Her mission now is to end preventable stillbirth, empower women through education and making a difference in congre…

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Being a Voice for Causes That Matter, featuring Naomi Klein 1:01:59

22d ago1:01:59

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This week’s episode airs Brooke in conversation with Naomi Klein at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. While this interview does not hew to Write-minded’s effort to offer weekly doses of inspiration for writers, Brooke and Grant decided to make this available both because our listeners requested it and because we admire the work Naomi Klein is doi…

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4 | The fallout after having a stillbirth that left me feeling betrayed. 21:54

2M ago21:54

21:54

Moving on...that's what we all must do after a loss. As I moved ahead, even simple tasks like laundry made me want to leave behind my baby. I noticed my body changing as my milk started coming in, and the bills that arrived were unexpected. It was painful when my family departed, and it seemed like everyone was prepared to move on except for me. LE…

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How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing, featuring Margaret Juhae Lee 40:03

2M ago40:03

40:03

Secrets come in all forms, big and small. We inherit secrets, carry the secrets of others, and struggle with the burden of all they hold and how they sometimes fester within us. This week’s episode with guest Margaret Juhae Lee explores the difference between people who want to keep the past buried and those who want to set it free. We explore inte…

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3 | Part II of my Stillbirth Story. | I finally share how I gave birth to my baby. 16:51

1M ago16:51

16:51

As I prepared to give birth, I felt like I was facing my own mortality. Instead of the a loud cry, Julianna would enter this work in absolute silence. To my surprise however, Julianna's birth didn't go as I expected. Friends and family began praying until she arrived. What God did in that hospital room on September 9th, 2023 was beyond belief. LETS…

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2 | Everything was fine in my pregnancy until it wasn't. 23:09

2M ago23:09

23:09

I share my own stillbirth story and how I had the textbook perfect pregnancy. I share insights and conversations with God that I'd never shared before. In this time I ask the most difficult question we all are thinking. Why does God hate me? What did I do to lose my baby? LETS STAY CONNECTED: Link Tree Instagram Facebook Twitter Website Give if you…

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On the Awards We Receive and the Rewards We Make, featuring Jayne Anne Phillips 45:59

2M ago45:59

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This week’s guest, Jayne Anne Phillips, is a Pulitzer prize-winning author for her latest book, Night Watch, which gives Write-minded an opportunity to muse about awards—why they matter, what we make of them and do with them, and where we might find awards from things we seek out in addition to those we receive. Join us for this wide-ranging litera…

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How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong 43:42

2M ago43:42

43:42

This week’s Write-minded centers questions, and how questions guide writers, drive fiction, and unearth important stories. Guest Rachel Khong shares how the big and provocative question of who’s a “real American” informed her new novel and why she writes without an outline. We also talk about ambition and drive, why novelists have to grapple with p…

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Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa 44:24

2M ago44:24

44:24

Write-minded is celebrating memoir as an evolving form this week, tackling the difference between imaginative writing in memoir and writing in memoir that might not be true. Memoir is increasingly embodying its rightful spot in the realm of creative nonfiction, in that there’s allowance for writers to explore ideas and truths within the realms of c…

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The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg 48:53

3M ago48:53

48:53

This week we take on The Big Novel and unpack our thoughts on novel length, the very concept of The Great American Novel, advances, and more. Guest Garth Risk Hallberg joins us to talk about his own long works of fiction, as well as his writing process that involves seeing where his characters want to take him. We touch upon characterization vs. pl…

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1 | My shameful reaction to stillbirth and I didn't want to hear it. 11:38

3M ago11:38

11:38

It may seem shocking, but when a new friend opened up to me about her stillbirth experience, my first instinct was to run away. Unfortunately, this is a common emotional response when hearing about such a taboo topic. Miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss can be uncomfortable and heartbreaking to discuss. I hope you learn from my reaction and ex…

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Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen 47:11

3M ago47:11

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It’s Write-minded’s 300th episode! And we’re celebrating by bringing listeners the esteemed Viet Thanh Nguyen, whose novel, The Sympathizer, was adapted for HBO Max and started streaming in April. In this interview, Nguyen addresses didacticism as a craft choice, the mindset of writers who, like him, find themselves between two languages, and how h…

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Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook 48:08

3M ago48:08

48:08

This week’s episode is one for book lovers, book collectors, aspiring authors, and every kind of writer. It’s always helpful to know what booksellers know—because bookstores do so much more than just provide a place for browsing and buying books. Join us to talk with Josh Cook of Porter Square Books about his new book, The Art of Libromancy, and wh…

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Intro to Silent Footprints 0:54

3M ago0:54

0:54

Have you lost a baby in a miscarriage, stillbirth or SIDS? Do you feel alone? Are you angry, depressed or struggling with all the emotions infant loss can have? Are you met with unwanted advice, inappropriate encouragement or feel bitter about your loss? Are you wondering where God stands in all this chaos? Do you wonder why America hasn't done muc…

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Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton 47:53

3M ago47:53

47:53

In this week’s extra-inspiring show, guest Dhonielle Clayton treats us to a generous conversation about effecting change in the industry and how that inevitable comes with backlash. We talk about representation in publishing, Penguin Random House’s recent firing of two high-profile publishers, and book bans—among other important topics, like packag…

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The Raw Truth About Exposure, featuring Susan Kiyo Ito 42:04

3M ago42:04

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What will other people think? What will be the consequences of sharing my truth? These are among some of the questions that hold memoirists back, and their realities post-publication can cause “vulnerability hangovers.” Exposure, fear of fallout, concern for people we love—memoir doesn’t make it easy. With very recent experience informing her, this…

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Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig 37:40

4M ago37:40

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We’re living through a golden age of memoir, and guest Jennifer Leigh Selig’s Deep Memoir is a new contribution to the “how-to” space for memoirists who want to explore the how and the why of memoir writing. This episode will help listeners consider their own “why” when it comes to that age-old question of why to keep at it, and also to celebrate a…

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Grief: The Hardest Emotion to Write, featuring Claire Jiménez 39:35

4M ago39:35

39:35

This week’s Write-minded takes on grief, and why, as our guest Claire Jiménez says, “it’s where language collapses.” Jiménez’s new book deals with loss and grief and what happens in a family in the aftermath of a disappearance of a child, and yet, she weaves in humor and the history of American colonization of Puerto Rico and so much more. Grant an…

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Creating New Forms—and Rearranging the Alphabet, featuring Elwin Cotman 36:38

4M ago36:38

36:38

This week Write-minded is interviewing an established writer whose star is on the rise. Elwin Cotman’s new story collection blew us away for how he played with form and takes readers on an expected journeys. His stories don’t fit into any box—including length, and we loved it! On this week’s show Grant also announces his departure from NaNoWriMo an…

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The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo 49:41

4M ago49:41

49:41

This week Write-minded reaches broadly into the topic of intimacy to explore its many permutations—not just romantic, but innocuous, violent, collective, and more. Guest Stacey D’Erasmo invites us to consider intimacy in writing, how we do it, how we feel it as readers, and also to consider acts of intimacy, like an older actress showing her authen…

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The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie 42:00

5M ago42:00

42:00

This week’s guest is John McMurtrie, the esteemed former editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s book review section. Join us as we explore the transition of book reviews from traditional media like TV and radio to online outlets like Amazon and Goodreads. His is an interesting take about how things were and how things are, along with insight about…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Lisa Rowell Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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The Silent Footprints

Lisa Rowell

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Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers

Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

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9 | Kila Gonzales Founder of I Will Carry You 39:41

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New Ways of Thinking About Memoir, featuring Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa 56:28

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8 | Retreating and Being Obedient 21:00

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Fiction Outliers, featuring Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas 51:11

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7 | Clint Davis Building Better Bridges with you children. Are you neglecting your child's sexual health because of your own trauma? 44:55

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Self-Exposure and Writing the Story You Have to Write, featuring Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito 48:03

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6 | Dawn V. Collins tells us how she got involved in stillbirth and birth work. 50:15

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Wisdom from the Publishing Trenches, featuring Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt 48:16

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Getting Reinspired after Failed or Abandoned Book Projects, featuring Paolo Bacigalupi 48:20

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5 | Camila Caster with PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy shares her surrogacy stillbirth story. 21:42

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Being a Voice for Causes That Matter, featuring Naomi Klein 1:01:59

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4 | The fallout after having a stillbirth that left me feeling betrayed. 21:54

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How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing, featuring Margaret Juhae Lee 40:03

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3 | Part II of my Stillbirth Story. | I finally share how I gave birth to my baby. 16:51

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2 | Everything was fine in my pregnancy until it wasn't. 23:09

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On the Awards We Receive and the Rewards We Make, featuring Jayne Anne Phillips 45:59

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How Big Questions Inform Fiction, featuring Rachel Khong 43:42

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Breaking New Ground in Memoir, featuring Shze-Hui Tjoa 44:24

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The Big Novel, featuring Garth Risk Hallberg 48:53

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1 | My shameful reaction to stillbirth and I didn't want to hear it. 11:38

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Remembering and Forgetting: The Refugee Journey, featuring Viet Thanh Nguyen 47:11

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Behind the Scenes of Selling Books, featuring Josh Cook 48:08

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Intro to Silent Footprints 0:54

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Be the Change You Want To See, featuring Dhonielle Clayton 47:53

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The Raw Truth About Exposure, featuring Susan Kiyo Ito 42:04

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Deep Memoir, featuring Jennifer Leigh Selig 37:40

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Grief: The Hardest Emotion to Write, featuring Claire Jiménez 39:35

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Creating New Forms—and Rearranging the Alphabet, featuring Elwin Cotman 36:38

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The Art of Intimacy, featuring Stacey D’Erasmo 49:41

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The State of the Book Review, featuring John McMurtrie 42:00

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