Hi, I'm Hannah Brown, and welcome to Better Tomorrow.

My absolute favorite thing to do is have a heart to heart talk with my new friends and my best friends,

where we sit down and talk about all the things like relationships and love, faith, and self-care.

And of course the little things as well, like the struggle to figure out what to eat tonight.

All in all, I really want to ask, how am I better today than yesterday and bring artists, entrepreneurs, and friends along on the journey. So join me on the journey will you?

I am so excited for our guest today because when I started better tomorrow I put together like a

list of people that I wanted to have on the show and this guest was on like my very first list because her book was a book that like

resonated with me so much at like the perfect time in my life so we have Terrace

Eustra on the podcast today who wrote one of my favorite books by yourself

the Effing Lillies and so I'm so excited that we're finally getting to get this together,

have this conversation so thank you so much Tara for being here.

Oh my goodness, thank you. I'm thrilled.

This is a long time in the making.

I know, we've messaged back and forth trying to get this like scheduled

because like I said, I loved your first book. Again Thank you for being here and I can't wait to talk about

just your life. Also your new your newest book glow in the effing dark. So yeah, this is like a dream for me to talk to you. Me too. So you were an

executive at Comedy Central working in television. So how did you even start writing self-help books?

Yeah, it is not an obvious path to self-help books. I was firmly at Comedy Central. I worked there fully 12 years. It was the first job I had out of college. I was an intern at the Daily Show with John Stewart.

So, you know, writing self-help books

was definitely not my intended career path at all.

What happened was I wrote my first book by yourself The Effing the Lees out of necessity. You know, it wasn't to be a self-help author. It was to save my life. As you know I grew up in a neglectful psychologically abusive

household where as I surely put it in the book things came to die you know like

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