by Betsy Fasbinder | Sep 1, 2021 | Podcasts
Lisa Lucca was enjoying what anyone might call an idyllic 1970s Midwest family life. But as an adolescent, the image of the ideal was shattered when she learned her father was gay, beginning a long journey from confusion and shame to acceptance. Lisa shares this experience in her work as a life coach and with listeners on her weekly radio talk show, Live True.
Lisa has contributed to several anthologies, including Crone Rising. She is co-author of an epistolary memoir, You Are Loved, with her partner, Mark, and was a #Blogher Voice of the Year Honoree. Lisa has just completed her memoir, Ashes to Ink: A Memoir, which chronicles her complicated relationship with her father and her search for love with a wounded heart.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Aug 18, 2021 | Extra Blooms, Podcasts
In our first conversation with Amy S. Peele, we focused on her newest role as a newly elected City Council member. But this time we’re chatting about how she’s brought her long career in the fascinating world of organ transplantation into writing medical murder mysteries. “A murder mystery with a mission and a side of humor” is how Amy describes her series. First CUT and now MATCH, the adventure continues. And while there’s always someone murdered in each book, don’t worry; as a conscientious organ transplant professional, Amy always finds a way to use their organs.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Aug 12, 2021 | Events
Dear friends, Now and then a deeply rewarding opportunity comes around, and I’m thrilled that this is one that I get to both experience and share with you. Laura Davis, along with her co-author Ellen Bass, broke new ground when they published The Courage to Heal in... 
by Betsy Fasbinder | Aug 4, 2021 | Podcasts
Toni Gattone fell in love with gardening in her grandfather’s backyard in Chicago, but it wasn’t until she moved to Northern California that her passion began to bloom.
She was a Sales Executive in corporate America for seventeen years but when the gardening bug kept biting, she started a sales company selling gifts and garden products to the retail market. Twenty-eight years later, Toni closed the doors to her business so she could focus on her “encore” career as an author and speaker.
When Toni became a Master Gardener in Marin County she started speaking on her love of gardening but her chronic bad back kept her from gardening with gusto, so she developed a seminar and wrote her book on adaptive gardening and never looked back.
Her book, The Lifelong Gardener, Garden with Ease and Joy at Any Age, reflects Toni’s true purpose and passion: helping gardeners do what they love to do…Garden for life, in comfort, ease, and joy!
by Betsy Fasbinder | Jul 21, 2021 | Podcasts
Julie Ryan McGue is an adult domestic adoptee and an identical twin. In her new memoir, Twice a Daughter, she tells the story about finding out who you are, where you come from, and making sense of it. At 48, Julie was sent for a breast biopsy, and for Julie and her twin sister, this event highlighted what they could not know about themselves due to their closed adoption. What followed was a five-year search to locate birth relatives who could provide family medical history, background, and genealogy. What began as a quest for information ends with the discovery of family, literally, right next door.
