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412: Story discovery as the pathway to success (with Michelle Ray)
Season 4, episode 12 is here!michelle ray spent 15 years teaching abroad in Ecuador, Bahrain, and Dubai before coming back to the States, having a kid, and eventually sitting down to write a memoir.This was a warm, funny, really honest conversation about writing and what stories actually do for us.What we covered- How Michelle stumbled onto Substack just to tick a box for a writing conference and ended up building something she genuinely loves.- The technique she uses to help writers access memories they didn’t know they still had, and why people rarely remember in words.- Why going back to…
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