This week I am talking with award-winning book coach and award-winning author–of the books The Joy of Writing Journal and the brand-new Breathe.Write. Breathe.--Lisa Tener.

Lisa served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School’s continuing education course on writing and publishing books for over a dozen years. And she has helped hundreds of experts and thought leaders write and publish their books and secure five and six figure book deals.

I was so happy and honored to write the foreword for Lisa's new book, which draws a lot on Lisa's in-depth studies and practice of qigong. And if you've been with me since the “How to Be a Better Person” days, you may remember Lisa when she came on as a guest and walked me through her “meet your muse” exercise, which helps you get in touch with your intuition and receive messages from your subconscious that can help you move forward in your creative work or get insight into anything you may be facing, where you could use a little guidance.

And lest you think Lisa is all about the woo, she also, I just found out while researching her for this episode, has her bachelor's and master's degree from MIT.

We covered:

How getting sick put her on the path to becoming a writer

How writing down her dreams helps fuel her writing

Working with the difficulty of earning a living from your writing

A peek inside the small village of people it takes to publish a book

The easy but powerful qigong move Lisa teaches to get you loosened up and ready to write

A look at the tools, places, and times of day that help Lisa get her writing done.

Visit Lisa at listener.com.

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