How To Build An Empire With An Idea - Meet Zibby Owens - The Author of "Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

NotBasicBlonde Podcast

In this episode, my guest Zibby Owens, shares how to build an empire with an idea, how to reinvent yourself, the best advice for women, the best advice for the writers beginners, and so much more!

Guest

Zibby Owens is an author, podcaster, publisher, CEO, and mother of four.

Zibby is the founder of Zibby Owens Media, a privately-held media company designed to help busy people live their best lives by connecting to books and each other. The three divisions include Zibby Books, a publishing house for fiction and memoir, Zibby Mag, the literary lifestyle destination, Zcast/Zibby Audio, a podcast network powered by Acast including Zibby’s award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books.

She is a regular columnist for Good Morning America and a frequent guest on morning news shows recommending books.

Editor of two anthologies (Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids and Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology), a children’s book Princess Charming, and a memoir Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, Zibby regularly pens personal essays, starting with her first one in Seventeen magazine in 1992.

Her memoir Bookends was featured on Good Morning America, CNN, Eyewitness News with Sandy Kenyon, Good Day LA, Good Day Dallas, Good Day DC, Miami NBC, and local news in San Diego. It was one of Town & Country’s “33 Best Summer Beach Reads” and one of Book Riot’s “8 Surprising New Memoirs to Add to Your TBR ASAP.”

Bookends was also featured in Katie Couric Media, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Woman’s Day, the New York Post, BookTrib, Thrive Global, Avenue, Quest, Amazon Book Review, Dan’s Papers, Audiofile, Hamptons Magazine, the Palisadian Post, Behind the Hedges, Westport Magazine, Spotlight Hamptons, Social Life, James Lane Post, Our Town, The Post & Courier, The Alliance Times Herald, The Westerly Sun, Tampa Bay Parenting, Hippocampus, and Atlantic Avenue, Bookends is a January 2023 Book Club Pick for Friends & Fiction and was selected for many other book clubs.

Zibby lives in New York with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and her four children. Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens.

Host

Olyasha Novozhylova - NotBasicBlonde @notbasicblonde_

NotBasicBlonde Podcast - @nbbpodcast

Olyasha Novozhylova is the CEO and Founder of NotBasicBlonde brand, dedicated to inspiring young women to create an extraordinary style and embrace their individuality.

Model, Blogger, Entrepreneur, Author, AmazonLive Fashion Host, Fashion Editor, and Celebrity Podcast Host of NotBasicBlonde Podcast.

As the Founder and Host of NotBasicBlonde Podcast with over 4M downloads and celebrity guests, where no topic is off limits, Olyasha provides millennials an ultimate guide on entrepreneurship, dating, marketing, self-development, astrology, spirituality, fashion, coaching, beauty,health&wellness.

Graduated from Georgia State University with a BBA in Managerial Sciences, Olyasha successfully built a career in IT/Project Management, before she became a full time entrepreneur.

Author of the children’s book Cutie the Unicorn – It’s ok to be different, Olyasha teaches our younger generation how to express their individuality.

Olyasha has led an impressive 15-year career in fashion and runway in US and overseas, as well as enjoying several acting roles.

Olyasha has partnered with over 100 nationwide brands such as Cartier, Revolve, PrettyLittleThing, PGA, Steve Madden, Too Faced, Vital Proteins, Tarte, DryBar, Drunk Elephant, etc.

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