[Laura Belgray, what’s next]: How a distaste for planning and goalsetting has worked out pretty great + the author who most inspires her Ep 1175

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Welcome back to the Finding the Throughline interview with Laura Belgray, author of the national bestseller Tough Titties, a collection of essays that is essentially a permission slip to be a dork, a sometimes-unspiritual slacker, a late bloomer and, ultimately, unapologetically you. Laura is the founder of Talking Shrimp and co-creator of The Copy Cure with Marie Forleo. She has been featured in Elle, Fast Company, and Business Insider, and has written for Bravo, HBO, Nick at Nite, VH1, and more.

Today, we find out what’s currently brewing for Laura and what she knows at this moment about where her personal throughline is leading her next, as well as what kinds of things she’s been reading, watching and listening to lately

We covered:

• Crawling out of a pit of despair after the election results

• Continuing to build her email list in the modern world where there are so many more things vying for our attention

• How she is not a visionary or planner—yet has achieved many amazing things anyway

• David Sedaris as the author who first introduced her to a genre/structure of book that is a collection of essays and also memoir.

• Her love of fiction and lack of confidence she will be able to write one someday, though she would love to

• How she would love to win Powerball so she could write whatever she wants

• How she wouldn’t have written a fraction of what she’d written if she didn’t write as a way to eat and make money

• Margot's Got Money Troubles by Rufy Thorpe--the last book that she could not put down.

• Spaghettini pomodoro at Scarpetta, with plenty of extra butter

Connect with Laura at talkingshrimp.com.

For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.

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