Reema Zaman is an author, speaker, and screenwriter. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir I Am Yours and the forthcoming novel Woman in Flight. Her essays have been published in Vogue, The Guardian, Salon, The Rumpus, and several others.

L’Oreal Thompson Payton is an award-winning journalist and the author of Stop Waiting for Perfect: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone and Into Your Power. Her personal essays, feature stories and celebrity interviews have been published in esteemed media outlets such as Essence, Fortune, SELF, Shondaland, and Well + Good, among others.

Ella Dawson is a New England-based author who is proud to drive stick-shift. Her debut novel, But How Are You, Really?, will be published by Dutton Books in May 2024. In her nonfiction work, she digs into stigmatized topics including domestic violence, trauma recovery, and sexuality.

Minna Dubin is the author of MOM RAGE: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Oprah Daily, The Times Sunday Magazine, Salon, Lit Hub, Parents, and Romper. As a leading feminist voice on mom rage, Minna has appeared on MSNBC, Good Morning America, The Tamron Hall Show, the BBC and NPR.

We had the honor of talking to Amanda Montei, the author of Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, & Control. We talked about the transition into motherhood, the #metoo movement and motherhood, the relationship between joy, sex and being a new mom, and her journey to sobriety in new motherhood.

We had the honor of talking to Cole Kazdin, author and journalist of the groundbreaking diet-culture book What’s Eating Us. Cole Kazdin is a writer, performer and four-time Emmy Award-winning television journalist. We chatted with Cole about her journey with eating disorders, why she decided to write What’s Eating Us, what she found in her journalistic journey of the book, and how it’s all…really about hope.

We had the chance to talk to author L’Oreal Thompson Payton about why we need to stop waiting for perfect, and embrace our identity as we step out of our comfort zone and into our power. L’Oreal Thompson Payton is the author of Stop Waiting for Perfect: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone and Into Your Power.

Laura McKowen is the bestselling author of Push Off From Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else), and the founder of The Luckiest Club. We chatted with Laura about her journey to sobriety, how even the darkest of Fresh Starts can lead to beautiful journeys, the foundation of The Luckiest Club during the early days of the pandemic, and of course, her gorgeous book Push Off From Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else).

Zoe Fishman is the 2020 Georgia Author of the Year in the Literary Fiction category. She is the critically acclaimed author of six novels, the most recent of which is The Fun Widow's Book Tour, which was published in March of this year. We chatted with Zoe about her husband’s sudden passing, how her entire world changed overnight, and how writing helped her heal, grieve, and grow.

We chatted with author, and award-winning actress, writer, and director, Gabrielle Stone, about how she took a massive heartbreak and turned it into a best-selling book, podcast, and movement. We talked about the transformation after divorce, traveling alone through the world, her journey writing her books, and how she healed herself through creativity, wisdom, and empowering others. It’s a gorgeous, honest, and vulnerable conversation about turning heartbreak into humor, and everything in between.