Tash created and birthed her second book over two years amidst working a 9-5 job, moving house, and through 8 months of pregnancy. She shares the complete timeline of how the book unfolded, from embracing the idea back in 2023, writing most of it in transit on planes in 2024, and using deadlines to her advantage to bring the book through editing to publication in January 2025. 

Welcome to The Creative Midwife Show! I’m your host, Kerryn Trisha, creative midwife, organiser of ideas, writer, editor, and writing coach. On the show I take you behind the scenes of writing my book and bring you guests to share their experience writing, editing, and publishing their book babies. 

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Tash Leam lives in Perth, Western Australia with her husband and is looking forward to welcoming their first child in 2025. Over the past decade she published her first book,From Human Doing to Human Being, lived in Canada, ran an MLM business, a candle business, has gotten married, and now works in administration for the federal government. All of these experiences and more are featured in her second book,When Life Gives You Lessons: A Guide to Navigating Lesson in Your Twenties and Beyond,out now.  

When Life Gives You Lessons by Tash Leam 
https://amzn.to/3BLTSXY 

Tash on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/tash_leam/ 

SHOW NOTES:- 

What is Human Design?https://www.myhumandesign.com/ 

The Four Tendencies by Gretchin Rubin 
https://amzn.to/4gq253h 

Episode 67 – Amanda Petra: Saying Yes Even When You Don’t Know How:https://youtu.be/MIKjYqkxgX0 

Book Cover Zone:https://bookcoverzone.com/  

Ingram Spark:https://www.ingramspark.com/ 

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP):https://kdp.amazon.com/ 

Reedsy:https://reedsy.com/studio/format-a-book  

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WRITING COACHING 

If you're looking for a writing coach to support you in starting or finishing your writing project including everything from emotional & mindset support to technical structure & habit building as well as support with the actual writing... I'd love to hear from you and learn about your project. 

My coaching packages start at $1000 NZD for one month of coaching support through Whatsapp voice and text messages. 

If that's a little out of your price range, I am putting together a group coaching program with a waitlist coming soon. 

EDITING PACKAGES 

If you're looking for an editor who champions women's stories, honours your creative choices, works to divine timing (not deadlines), and supports your style of working... I'd love to meet you and hear about your project. 

We start with a $500 NZD Editorial Review where I can look at your first 3 chapters to give you feedback and directions on how to develop your book further. The cost of this review can be put towards the price of any of my editing packages. 

A full three pass editing package is $5000 NZD including a structural edit, copy edit, line edit of your formatted-for-publishing manuscript, and full access to me on Whatsapp for coaching and support throughout the editing process. If you don’t want a full three pass edit then we can put together a custom package with one or two editing passes to suit your needs from $1000-2000 per editing pass. 

Email me atkerryn@kerrynhewson.com or DM me Instagram @kerryn.trisha for more information about working together.