Gathering an Anthology with Jessica Patay

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Bob and Kim sit down with Jessica Patay, who recently published 'Becoming Brave Together'. In this episode, Jessica opens up about her journey as a first-time author, sharing the heartfelt stories of caregiving moms. She shares her personal story of raising a child with Prader-Willi syndrome and the inspiration to compile an anthology from 22 writers, all caregiving moms, sharing stories about extreme and extraordinary caregiving of their children. Explore the challenges she faced, the lessons learned, and the profound impact her book aims to make. Connect with Jessica: @wearebravetogetherCheck out Jessica's book: https://www.wearebravetogether.org/book Connect with Bob: @bobgoff Connect with Kim: @kimberly.stuart.writes---Learn more about Writing Coaching with Bob and Kim: bobgoff.com/writing-coachingCome join Bob and Kim at the Oaks for a Writer's Workshop. Wherever you are in the writing process they are ready to help you figure out your next steps! Visit bobgoff.com/events to learn more.

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0:02.0	Hey everybody, it's Bob Goff here.
0:12.0	Welcome to the Writing Room, and we've got Jessica Pate on with us, and she has been somebody that came to one of our writers workshops a couple years ago.
0:22.6	And she's just ended up publishing a terrific book.
0:25.6	It's an anthology.
0:27.0	It's called Becoming Brave Together.
0:30.4	And I just want to welcome you, Jessica.
0:32.7	I think Kim is going to join us in a second, but welcome to the podcast.
0:37.2	Hi, Bob. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so grateful to be here.
0:42.4	Give us just a quick taste of your adventure as an author. Had you written books before,
0:49.8	or is this your first cannonball in, grab your knees and go?
0:54.2	Yes, this is the first.
0:55.6	I definitely had been writing and blogging before, but this is the first book.
1:00.8	Yeah, the thing that I thought would be really interesting for some of the people listening
1:04.7	to us is to hear from somebody who started the process from like a jumpstart.
1:11.2	Welcome, Kimberly.
1:12.3	Good to see you.
1:13.4	And we were just talking about this process of starting a book and jumping in
1:19.4	because a lot of people that listen to the podcast haven't done that yet.
1:23.5	They're considering it, we'd call it pre-contemplation.
1:27.0	They haven't grabbed their knees
1:29.1	and done the cannonball. What was a little your backstory that got you to the point to say,
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