In this episode I'm talking with Nada about what I call inner stuff, the thoughts, ideas, and attitudes that affect your work, even if you're not fully conscious of it, including:

- How her least favorite part of writing (sharing her work) becoming her most favorite part

- The type of reader feedback that fills her heart and lights her up and fuels her to create

- Feeling out of step with the world–and being OK with that

- Being the only Arab kid around in the 90s

- Nada’s plea–that we wake up from the collective illusion of separateness

- Finding points of connection, particularly with people you disagree with

- Astrology talk! (She’s an Aries sun with a Pisces moon–equal parts ready to charge into a fight and to contemplate quantum physics.)

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