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[Nancy Johnson, inner stuff]: Developing the faith that you are on the right path at the right time Ep 1222

[Nancy Johnson, inner stuff]: Developing the faith that you are on the right path at the right time Ep 1222

Update: 2025-09-03
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Welcome back to part two of my interview with Nancy Johnson, author of “People of Means,” a story of class, culture, mothers and daughters, and the fight for racial equality in the not so distant American past. Nancy's first book, The Kindest Lie, was a Book of the Month Club selection and a Target book club pick.
This episode gets into some real emotional terrain, including:
- Her love-hate relationship with the actual writing process
- Her very least favorite part of the publishing process, and how she deals with that discomfort
- The responsibility she feels as a Black author to represent Black people in a “honest, caring way”, and how that responsibility can turbo charge her inner critic
- The advice author Britt Bennett gave her about how to avoid writing stereotypes
- Why she stopped reading her Goodreads and Amazon reviews–and why she makes it a point to ask the readers she speaks to in person what didn’t work for them
- The ninja trick she developed to help her not take negative customer reviews too much to heart
- How her past struggles have shaped her faith that her journey is unfolding in the exact right way at the exact right time
- Why right now is the best time to be telling your stories
Connect with Nancy on Instagram @nancyjauthor or Facebook at Nancy Johnson Author.
For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.
Thank you for listening!
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[Nancy Johnson, inner stuff]: Developing the faith that you are on the right path at the right time Ep 1222

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