Sally Kohn: One of the things from the book that I think was an interesting courageous decision so you decided to tell a deeply personal story about relationship with your with your mother and how that changed. Did you go back and forth on whether to include that or not?Kohn: The whole point of writing is to express the stuff that is not so easy to express in the chatter of everyday life. You know like the real stuff the real stuff there's something about these media that gives us a space to to express what's real and you know deeper and true.
Susan Cain is the New York Times bestselling author of Quiet, which changed how the world views introverts forever, and a her latest book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, which reached #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.
Susan is also an award-winning keynote speaker who has delivered two TED Talks with millions of views and the founder of Quiet Revolution.
Susan joined host Robert Glazer on the Elevate Podcast to discuss how she began her writing career, her writing process, the value of bittersweet feelings and thinking, and how to fight toxic positivity in work and life.
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