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Welcome to the Why Would You Write That podcast! In this episode Samantha talks about why she wanted to start this podcast and how writing can help people heal and feel more connected to one another. 

Samantha mentions her book in this episode. It can be found here. 

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Hey everyone. Thanks for being here. I'm so excited to be starting this podcast. It's been something that I've been thinking about forever and ever. It came to me because I love to read and there are so many times that I read something and it's extremely vulnerable, and I know the work that it took for the writer to put it in the bravery, the overcoming self-doubt, and all of the things that had to happen. In order for that writer to feel like they could actually share that story. And I know that when we read these, we wonder to ourselves sometimes why did they write that? And so that is why I'm here. My own personal story started with a story of my most probably worst hangover that I've ever experienced. I woke up next to my child, covered in sweat, wearing a damp swimsuit from the day before, wondering where I was. And that is the very. First few opening sentences of my book, and when I shared my book with people, I did get a lot of messages, particularly from close family or friends, wondering, why would you write that? And so I think part of the reason that we write these stories is to feel connected. For me, when I'm able to write down the things that I think are the most gruesome, awful, darkest, most shameful things that I've ever done or experienced I write'em down. I start to feel free from it. It doesn't live inside me anymore. I've found a place for it. I put it there. And when I share it, once I work on it, slightly edit it so that it's not as gruesome as it originally came out, I find that over and over again, someone else is like, oh yeah, me too. I do that same dark, disgusting, gruesome. I. Shameful. Awful thing. And it reminds me of my humanity, and it reminds me that we're all in this together and I really feel more connected to the people around me. I feel more connected to the world. And so that is why I will be the first to share really vulnerable complicated stories that I think that other people might. Be too embarrassed to share themselves. Or if someone who is reading something that I've done that thinks that they're just the worst and that they aren't worthy because of this horrible thing that they've done, and then they say, Hey, she's done it. I think that is so freeing. And so I'm really excited. Throughout this podcast, I am going to be interviewing some of my favorite authors. Many of them happen to be my close friends because I have. Somehow convinced everyone that I know to start sharing their stories and writing books, and I'm so excited about that. And so I'm really excited to see how it felt for them to share their vulnerable stories, how their family members and friends. Felt about it, what they thought about it, and so much more. I can't wait to get the insight from other people and really to help us all feel like, you know what? There's nothing too dark. There's nothing too shameful. There's nothing too wrong with us. We are all human worthy and. We deserve connection and love and light no matter how deep and dark our secrets get. And so that is why I'm here. I really hope you enjoy and I cannot wait to see where this takes us. And I'm just really excited that you're on this journey with me. I.