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Judith Breier's passion and mission is something we all can benefit from. She facilitates writing workshops to embrace the aging process. As a certified instructor of the AWA writing method, allowing memior writers to write honestly so their work is seen as fiction; and their memiors create a legacy for their families and generations to come. Judith is a SAGE-ing Leader from Sage-ing Internations, and has completed training as a Life Legacy Letter Instructor. She has been presenting at the yWrite Writer's Conference for the past three years, as well as multiple other facilities. Her classes are popular amoung all writers, especially the ageing. This episode addresses what Legacy Letters are, how she was trained to guide folks into writing them, and most importantly, Judith shares a letter she wrote to her daughter about a necklace. Judith and yWrite Host Angela Grout are sisters in the IWWG (international women writers guild) and both are end of life doulas and hospice companions. They discuss how important it is to write stories to capture your voice, a time, and even an object so that it can be passed down to future generations. Judith studied under Rachael Freed, and discusses Rachael's works and books. Rachael's books are on Amazon. Life Legacy Writing by Rachael Freed Your Legacy Matters: Women's Lives, Women's Lessons by Rachael Freed To take a class with Judith Breier and learn the difference of Legacy Letters and Ethical Wills. Contact her at life-legacy.org or register for the November 1, 2025 yWrite Writer's Conference in agawam at www.y-write.com For more information on Judith Breier and her offerings visit www.journeytotheheart.net To learn how to be a guest on yWrite visit www.y-write.com Author Angela Grout's books can be found on Amazon.

Keeping a journal can be helpful and healing. Author and Healing Practitioner Mary-Anne Schelb did that for herself privately but then realized the system she was using could be beneficial to others. In her practice as a holistic healer, her clients use her guiding journals to balance and transform their lives. When she saw how helpful her book was, she began to author more using a 30 day method. This episode she shares with yWrite Host how she designed the journals, created the layour, and the journey to publish and market them. Writing a workbook has a much different format than a novel. Learn how she chose her cover, artwork, and why it all is so helpful to the journaling process. In addition to her journals and her practice, she writes weekly inspirational email blogs which those in need of uplifting can subscribe to for free. Mary-Anne Schelb's writings have become a form of legacy work for those actively using her journals. If you are considering writing a workbook, this episode will guide you and teach you how it can be an additional resource to the work you do! Mary-Anne’s Books can be purchased at www.intentionalcalm.com For more information on her, her practice, and how she incorporates her books into healing practices, contact her at [email protected] yWrite Host Angela Grout's books can be found on Amazon and at her website www.angelamgrout.com To learn how to be a guest on yWrite, visit www.y-write.com Thank you for subscribing!

Alison May, the owner of Alison May Public Relations & journalist/news anchor for NewsMax share her expertise in her book BREAKING IN THE NEWS: Building Buzz for Your Brand. Exactly what does a Public Relations Consultant do? This episode is for you! Alison gives authors helpful hints to get publicity for their books, their brand, and themselves. Learn what a PR agent can do for you, and just why she shares some of her top lessons in her book BREAKING IN THE NEWS. yWrite Host Angela Grout asks her about the publishing process of her book and what it was like to work with a publisher that gave her deadlines, suggested edits, and most importantly helpful goals to reach her goal. As a mother of three, full time news reporter, and now author, managing time is important. Alison discusses what works for her, and it might just work for you if you are balancing many projects. Alison's books can be found on Amazon and on her website. www.alisonmaycommunications.com For more information to have Alison speak at your event or have her provide services for your event/announcements, email her through her website. Her books: BREAKING IN THE NEWS: Building Buzz For Your Brand RISING ABOVE: Empowering Stories of Women Overcoming Adversity yWrite Host Angela Grout's books may be found on Amazon and on her website: www.angelamgrout.com Learn how you can be a guest on yWrite at www.y-write.com Subscribe, Like, Comment, & Share this podcast with your friends and family.

Living with stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer, Andy Campbell shares how numerous life-altering challenges has given him power to stay resilient. Andy Campbell is author of: Overcoming Life's Toughest Setbacks: 15 Breakthrough Core Beliefs to Transform Challenges into Opportunities When writing about a trauma in your life, Andy has some great advice on how to write it without reliving it. The power of word choice, and how he views his journey has given him a unique perspective on resilence. As a victim of childhood sexual abuse, bullying, the loss of his mother at an early age, the eventual estrangement from his father, and the loss of his youngest son to suicide, Author Andy Campbell demonstreates strength and perserveranace. Agreeing to write a book on enduring a life of traumatic events, including a six+ year cancer trial for stage 4 pancreatic cancer was not what he wanted to write...but in writing about how he endured it all because of his 15 core beliefs became the fuel to writing. His book OVERCOMING LIFE's TOUGHEST SETBACKS will transform readers and encourage writers to understand the importance of word selection, visual imagery, and purpose to inspire another in a postive manner. To learn more about Andy Campbell, his journey, his supplements, his core beliefs, and to purchase his book, visit www.askandycampbell.com His book can be found on amazon at: https://a.co/d/23zEwlw OVERCOMING LIFE's TOUGHEST SETBACKS: 15 Breakthrough Core Beliefs to Transform Challenges into Opportunities. Learn how to be a guest at www.y-Write.com For more information on yWrite Host & Author Angela Grout, visit www.angelamgrout.com

Pastor Daniel Aaron Cohen has a mission to spread God's love. He uncovered a secret to practical humility and wrote ITS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU: The Secret Joy of Practical Humilty which is gifting readers a pathway to living more fulfilling lives. yWrite Host Angela Grout asks Author Dan Cohen about the path to writing this book. With much humility, he shares it took almost 10 years, and in that time, the structure of the chapters, the format, and the exercises gifted him with the perserverance to finish not only this book but to begin a series. The Happiness Through Humility Series is in the works and book 1: ITS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU is an easy to read and follow book. It's a self-improvement book that isn't preachy, which is what most authors wanting to write self-help books strive for. Suggestions, guidance, and inner reflection are keys to the path of writing a book which has something to preach. Angela suggests reading a path a day or use each exercise as a writing prompt for yourself (and for writers: have your characters answer!) With a Masters in Journalism, Religion, and Social Work, Dan Cohen is the man to write this book. Listen to what Angela & Dad have to say about The Path of Obeying God (Path#66) For writers: The process of writing, publishing and marketing are three very important aspects of birthing a book. Dan tells why he self-published with Amazon and Ingram Sparks. He hired his own editor to format the book and they even uploaded it to the publishing sites. Off Camera, he did share those fees were approx $1500. The investment is well worth the finished product which is well recieved by readers. Learn why the Appendix was included and why you might want to include one in your book too! For more information on Daniel Cohen visit www.danielaaroncohen.com His book ITS NOT ALL ABOUT YOU: The Secret Joy of Practical Humility: The Secret Joy of Practical Humilty is can be found on Amazon here: For More Information on yWrite Host Angela Grout and her books, visit www.angelamgrout.com

Author Cary Seaholm has lots of insightful guidance on divorce and how to understand your identity in Christ when getting a divorce. As a License Clinical Social Worker, and a woman who specializes in the devestation cansed by divorce, she shares how her book THE NAME CHANGER is helping Heal those whose lives are changing because of a divorce. yWrite Host Angela Grout discuss the anxiety, grief, anger, and other emtions which Cary thoughful and professionally shares in writing this guide book to enable clients/readers to journey through divorce. If you are a writer and have endured a journey which has brought you to healing, closer to God, and given meaning to your life, this is the author which you need to follow. Cary Seaholm used a unique process to write this book to help others. Learn why chapters need planning when writing a book to guide someone in their journey. THE NAME CHANGER's title and cover artwork have special meaning for readers...which is why as a writers its important to know that books often can be judged by the cover. This episode explores the importance of organzing chapters, choosing the appropriate cover, and the secret to how inspiration for a book arrives to an author. Cary's book has enabled her to be populare speaker at many seminars, conferences, and workshops throughout the United States. Her book is now being used as a group study guide in many divorce support groups, as well as individual studies! To learn more about Author Cary Seaholm, visit: www.chosencounseling.com Purchase her book: THE NAME CHANGER: How to Heal From the Devestation of Divorce....on her website or on amazon at https://a.co/d/7iokWCE For more information on yWrite Host and Author Angela Grout, visit. www.y-write.com Like, Share, Subscribe, and leave a comment on how this episode inspired you! Thanks!!

yWrite Host Angela Grout is Flying Solo on this episode and sharing the backstory to her Dramatic Musical IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT (IMON). The reality of a writer fighting with her muse is something Angela discusses not only in this episode but also with the character CORA in IMON. CORA meets the muse in her dream and wants to conjure up a story she feels comfortable with, however that is not how a muse works. yWrite Host and Author Angela Grout decribes in detail the muse she met in her dream and learn hos she wrote and composed 18 orginal songs for this play! Listen in to the dream she had of Christina Kay and her own grandmother which began the inspiration for this stageplay! If you don't believe incommunication from the afterlife, you just might after this episode! Did Christina Kay contact Angela to have the truth told of her death? Was Christina Kay murdered or was it a suicide? You will contemplate if Angela created the story based on inspiration from a dream...or her own reality? What happens when dreams become a reality? Working a story with facts, inspiration, and a passion, Angela shares the journey of including some of APRIL RAiN into IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, see episode 96 for more on APRIL RAiN. The journey of a writer, or at least this writer....a murder, a coverup, a pregnancy, a baseball pitch, and some gumshoe detetive work, is just a day in the life of Angela's inspiration to write IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, which of course really happened in the middle of the night!

Its the 100th episode of yWrite and yWrite Host ⁠Angela Grout ⁠shares three lessons she's learned while creating these 100 episodes. Learn what episodes 37, 41, and 59 have to do with those lessons.yWrite Technical Producer Les Tingley tells the live audience what he loves most about yWrite and Angela! On this 100th Episode which was recorded with a Live Studio Audience...⁠G Michael Dobbs⁠, ⁠Author Judith Cosby,⁠ and Host Angela Grout celebrate with inside information for writers and readers! Dobbs explains his own writing lessons in 100 words and 100 times which inspires a new project for Host Angela Grout...stay tuned to learn more in the coming weeks! Cosby & Grout share more than a love of writing, they also share determined muses! Find out more in this special episode #100. Like, Follow, and Subscribe...and share this episode and others with your friends! ⁠⁠ G Michael Dobbs Book: ⁠WHAT THEY DIDNT TEACH YOU IN JOURNALISM SCHOOL: The Memoir of An Ink-Stained Wretch⁠....buy it here: https://a.co/d/0aM3AO9 Judith Cosby's newest book: THE ATTACHMENT can be found at this link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK1VQ2KX?... ⁠ To purchase yWrite Host Angela Grout's books, and for information to be a guest on yWrite visit: www.y-write.com

Certified Speech and Language Pathologist, Author Gina Biskupic, had a story in her head for years, and like so many struggling storytellers, she needed to write it. Her novel, NO FAULT OF HIS OWN, is published and Gina shares on this episode of yWrite, the process of moving from the mind to the bindings of a book. yWrite Host Angela Grout, consults many writers and coaches them through the process of writing. When Angela and Gina first met, Gina was just beginning to write. Now, two years later, her finished novel is touching the hearts and educating others. Author Gina Biskupic discusses how she is a "pantser" whenit comes to writing, and why taking a leave of absense from work to focus on the book was important to her. Gina shares the process of planning book signings and how teaming up with a non-profit has helped not only the sale of her book but has built awareness of topics she is passionate about. Stay tuned to the end so you learn what she wished she knew before writing and how that helped her to work with her publisher Palmetto Press. For more information on Gina, contact her on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Facebook. Instagram: authorslp_gina-biskupic Linked In: / gina-dialessi-biskupic-m-a-ccc-slp-77aa9a2b Her novel NO FAULT OF HIS OWN is available on Amazon at: https://a.co/d/f0G4x9E To learn more about being a guest on yWrite visit www.y-write.com

Are you a #poet? Every #write #poetry or enjoy poetry? Wonder what a Poet Larueate even is? Well, this episode will share so much about all of that and more! Meet Enfield Connecticut Poet Laureate Nzima Hutchings. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Enfield in 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. She is a best selling author and a very talented poet sharing her skill with her community. Learn why she started the Enfield Poets Cafe and why yWrite Host Angela Grout is a featured poet on Nzima's Poetry Cafe Show! Nzima Hutchings discusses the style of poetry which she prefers as well as discusses rhyming, two-wop poems, contrapuntal poetry, and her passion to create, perform, and present poetry and workshops which empower women to heal, and embrace their truths. Nzima's best selling book EVERY KINDA LADY, and her Sister Pages Anthology Series has evolved into so much more than just poetry on a page. Listen to this podcast to hear about the retreats she hosts for women, and how as the founder of the Hartford L.I.T , she created the annual Hartford Book Festival. For more information on her retreats, symposiums, workshops, and presentations, contact her at [email protected]. For more information on the annual Hartford Book Festival, visit www.hartfordslit.com To learn about her show, her books, and her company EVERY KIND OF LADY, email: [email protected] If you are interested to join the Enfield Poet's Cafe, which is open to the public and held at local libraries around Enfield, CT, visit and follow the ENFIELD POET CAFE Facebook page. The link is / 1b81b1mqv8 Subscribe and watch Nzima's Poetry Cafe Show on coxnorthcentral.com Watch Nzima's Poetry Cafe Show Episode which yWrite Host Angela Grout shares her experience writing with Nzima and Angela reads her own two poems! Click this link: http://184.185.54.232/CablecastPublicSite/show/8137?site=1 Her books may be purchased online at Barnes & Noble or through contacting her directly at [email protected] Her books include: 1. Every Kinda Lady and Her Sister Pages 2. Connect and Align to Heal 3. Belly Screams, Flowers, and Holes 4. WE BE 5. Every Kinda Lady: Monologues in Poetry Volume 1. 6. Poetry Cafe Spiels More to come..... For more information on Author Angela Grout, visit www.angelamgrout.com Thanks for subscribing to yWrite. Please "like" and comment on this video and all videos you enjoy!