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Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever! Become a Patron! “It’s not actually about the questions you ask. It’s about shutting up.” — Julian Brave NoiseCat, author of We Survived the Night. Got some real nice notes, emails, DMs, IG comments, some men’s underwear in the mail (JK) about reaching Ep. 500 of the show, a great … href="http://brendanom...

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Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever! Become a Patron! “What rises during the day is panic. The panic takes over late in the day when you think, ‘My God, I’m gonna lose this whole day. I’ve done nothing and I’ve gotten nowhere.’ Somehow that panic made me kick in, but that’s the typical day. And I’m … href="http://brendanomeara.com/episode-50...

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Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever! Become a Patron! “You get pushed through this roller coaster, what’s the next thing you should be worried about in terms of your book? Are you gonna get the right publicity? Are you gonna sell enough copies? Is anyone gonna come to your book events? And it goes up and … href="http://brendanomeara.com/epis...

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Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025 While running, it can be easy to keep peeking at your global positioning system watch wishing the mileage would register a little faster. When it finally beeps, there’s a tendency to say, “How the hell has it only been one mile?” This happened recently. It was an easy 3 miles for … href="http://brendanomeara.com/dont-wish-away-the-miles/" class="more-...

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Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever! Become a Patron! “I have this desire to write as a novelist might write but write nonfiction.” — Sasha Bonet, author of The Waterbearers. Today we have the brilliant writer, the brilliant mind, Sasha Bonet, @sasha.bonet, author of The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters (Knopf). This book is …

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