August 8, 2024 / Mom &… Podcast Episode 141 / Guest: Dallas Woodburn

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Show Summary:

Join hosts Susanne Kerns and Missy Stevens on the Mom &… Podcast as they talk with Dallas Woodburn. Dallas is an award-winning author, book coach, and podcast host who helps women around the world write and publish their heartfelt stories. In this episode, they explore practical tips for finding time to write amidst busy lives, the importance of small kindnesses, and how community and support can aid in the creative process. Dallas also dives into her various book projects and how she balances her professional and personal life.

Topics From This Episode:

• Introduction





• Dallas’s Background and Career Journey





• Writing Routines and Overcoming Obstacles





• Finding Motivation and Setting Boundaries





• The 52 Weeks of Kind Acts Project





• Look, Listen, Learn Segment

Look, Listen, Learns

Susanne:

• Glenstone Museum in Maryland





• Untitled (Lover Boys) by Felix Gonzalez-Torres





• Listening to great conversation with her daughter





• Learning that it takes a lot longer to pack up a dorm room than you might think

Dallas:

• Brave in the Water by Stephanie Wildman





• The Expiration Date by Leslie McElroy





• The Heart Centered Entrepreneur Podcast





• Mary Van Geffen courses: Calm, Kind, Firm

Missy:

• Unfrosted on Netflix





• John Mulaney Presents Everyone’s in LA





• Merrily We Roll Along





• Learning to embroider

More About Dallas Woodburn:

Dallas Woodburn is an award-winning author of fiction, nonfiction, and plays; an in-demand book coach; and host of the Thriving Authors Podcast. She has helped dozens of women around the world write and publish the books inside their hearts to grow their businesses, grow their impact, and grow their legacies.

Dallas’s debut YA novel, The Best Week That Never Happened, was a #1 New Release on Amazon, a Featured Bestseller on Apple Books, and the Grand Prize Winner of the Dante Rossetti Book Award for Young Adult Fiction. She is also the author of the motivational writing handbook Your Book Matters: 52 love notes from my creative heart to yours; the YA novel Thanks, Carissa, For Ruining My Life; and the short story collections Woman, Running Late, in a Dress and How to Make Paper When the World is Ending. Her novel Before & After You & Me and nonfiction book 1,001 Ways to be Kind are both forthcoming in 2024.

A former John Steinbeck Fellow in Creative Writing, Dallas has received the Cypress & Pine Short Fiction Award, the international Glass Woman Prize, and four Pushcart Prize nominations. Her short stories have appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Nashville Review, Louisiana Literature, North Dakota Quarterly, and many other journals, and her nonfiction has been published in Family Circle, Writer’s Digest, The Writer, The Los Angeles Times, Modern Loss, an