"We're waiting on everybody to check in on us. No, you can check in on somebody, too. You don't know what they're going through." Grammy Award-winning member of Destiny's Child Michelle Williams opens up to Zibby about her experience living for over a decade with undiagnosed depression and how she hopes advocating for mental health awareness will help others who might be struggling, too.
Zibby is joined by Dwayne Reed, the teacher who went viral for his creative and educational YouTube videos, to talk about his latest book, Simon B. Rhymin'. Dwayne shares how he became an educator, what messages he wants his books to convey, and the importance of teaching children lessons that extend outside of the classroom.
"Food is so emotional. That's why you can't just talk about food. You have to delve into the emotions and the reason we're eating and choosing foods." Nutritionist Lara Metz joins Zibby to discuss how to change your relationship with food through mindfulness, the role family food culture plays in all of our lives, and why you should stop attaching labels to your food and your body.
Former CNN anchor and journalist Brooke Baldwin joins Zibby to talk about how essential it is for women to cultivate their communities —or huddles— wherever they may exist. From workout classes to work friends, Brooke shares stories from successful women as well as from her own life to encourage and inspire readers to focus on lifting one another up.
"One of the big messages of the book that I hope people allow in is: some hard conversations are hard because you're uncovering a truth that you're not quite ready to face." Journalist and host of the WNYC podcast Death, Sex & Money Anna Sale talks with Zibby about the hard conversations she had to have to write this book and how they feel different from the ones she's been having throughout her entire career.
"I think that we tell these stories to put it in the record, to honor these people, to showcase them for who they really are." Zibby is joined by former New York Times writer and editor Cate Doty to discuss their shared obsession with the NYT's Vows section (which Cate began her career writing for), as well as what drove Cate to initially become a journalist and what her thoughts on marriage are today.
Abigail Tucker joins Zibby to break down the science in her latest book. The two talk about the research that is being conducted on how "mommy brain" is a real biological phenomenon, how the way we treat new mothers can have a psychological impact, and how our own mother's genes may still be inside us today.
Zibby is joined by Deborah Goodrich Royce, owner of the Ocean House Hotel (the site of the Moms Don't Have Time to Travel Retreat!!) and author of the new novel, Ruby Falls. The two discuss Deborah's career —from soap opera star to script story editor, and finally to novelist— and where she found inspiration for her latest book.
"It's so easy to go on Instagram and click, click, click. All of these devices are all around. You can so easily forget to tap into your roots." Journalist and author of Destination Wellness: Global Secrets for Better Living Wherever You Are, Annie Daly, shares her favorite philosophies that she's picked up during her travels, what she learned from her experience with adult acne, and how we can all begin to improve our individual wellbeing.
This month's Read with Jenna/Today Show book pick!! Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle, joins Zibby to talk about her latest book which took almost seven years to write. The two discuss the extensive research that went into the story, how Maggie managed to weave together two narrative arcs without any prepared outline, and how her pre-COVID travels inspired so much of the novel.
This month's Reese's Book Club pick and number 1 on the bestsellers list!! Author Laura Dave explains why she couldn't let the story behind her latest novel, The Last Thing He Told Me, go after starting it nearly ten years ago. Laura talks with Zibby about wanting to write a thriller about the Enron scandal, what the process of adapting the book into a TV show has looked like, and why she's drawn to the found family structure.
"It's a great thing about books in general: they don't go anywhere." Jean Hanff Korelitz joins to discuss missing Zibby's in-person salons, why she prefers writing and reading about unlikable protagonists, and how she's welcoming a surge of popularity following the adaptation of her novel You Should've Known into HBO's The Undoing.
“If you never get rejected, then it means you’re never trying anything that really pushes you in a way that you’ll grow.” Zibby is joined by Jessica Bacal, author of The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work, as well as two of the book’s contributors, Chelsea Kline and Polly Rodriguez. The four talk about what they’ve learned from their individual rejections and offer tips on how we can all begin to approach rejection as a necessary step for growth.
Kristen Coffield, creator of The Culinary Cure, joins Zibby to discuss how a dark period in her life led her to regain control of how she felt in her body. Kristen shares how she uses food as fuel to energize her throughout the day and week, and offers tips on how to get the most out of what you eat.
