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Glennon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
9038 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

One thing that I found so amazing in this book is that even your front liners are librarians. Like that's so wild right now. I mean, I know they kind of always are, but right now the librarians are the ones who are protecting the written word, protecting marginalized communities who write. That's so amazing. Yeah.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

Celeste, how do you talk to your little boy about surviving and thriving in America? How do you, because you said it's three parts. You're making a safe space for him. Your art is out in the world. This book is going to open hearts and minds, 100%. So you've done that. Check, check. So the middle one. You can rest now. The middle one.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

Celeste, how do you talk to your little boy about surviving and thriving in America? How do you, because you said it's three parts. You're making a safe space for him. Your art is out in the world. This book is going to open hearts and minds, 100%. So you've done that. Check, check. So the middle one. You can rest now. The middle one.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

Celeste, how do you talk to your little boy about surviving and thriving in America? How do you, because you said it's three parts. You're making a safe space for him. Your art is out in the world. This book is going to open hearts and minds, 100%. So you've done that. Check, check. So the middle one. You can rest now. The middle one.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

How do you prepare your son for all of the macro and microaggressions? he will experience in America.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

How do you prepare your son for all of the macro and microaggressions? he will experience in America.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

How do you prepare your son for all of the macro and microaggressions? he will experience in America.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

Do you think that writing fiction makes you a more compassionate person? Because I was listening to you say at one point a while back that if you have a character, like you were in a workshop or something, I think it was about Elena. It all comes back to Elena for some reason.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

Do you think that writing fiction makes you a more compassionate person? Because I was listening to you say at one point a while back that if you have a character, like you were in a workshop or something, I think it was about Elena. It all comes back to Elena for some reason.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

Do you think that writing fiction makes you a more compassionate person? Because I was listening to you say at one point a while back that if you have a character, like you were in a workshop or something, I think it was about Elena. It all comes back to Elena for some reason.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

But today, your workshop people were like, you need to, we need to understand why Elena's like this because we're not feeling very sympathetic. So you said when people can't understand why someone is a certain way, you as a fiction writer go back, work your way back and put a breadcrumb in the beginning so that they can see why they turned out that way.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

But today, your workshop people were like, you need to, we need to understand why Elena's like this because we're not feeling very sympathetic. So you said when people can't understand why someone is a certain way, you as a fiction writer go back, work your way back and put a breadcrumb in the beginning so that they can see why they turned out that way.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

But today, your workshop people were like, you need to, we need to understand why Elena's like this because we're not feeling very sympathetic. So you said when people can't understand why someone is a certain way, you as a fiction writer go back, work your way back and put a breadcrumb in the beginning so that they can see why they turned out that way.

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

So I just have to tell you the story, Celeste, is that I am in the middle of adapting Untamed into a TV show. I was sitting in a meeting recently with a producer, a wonderful producer. We had just pitched this whole thing about, you know, the divorce and the bulimia and the mental health and the coming out and the whatever. And the producer sat there quietly. And then he said this,

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

So I just have to tell you the story, Celeste, is that I am in the middle of adapting Untamed into a TV show. I was sitting in a meeting recently with a producer, a wonderful producer. We had just pitched this whole thing about, you know, the divorce and the bulimia and the mental health and the coming out and the whatever. And the producer sat there quietly. And then he said this,

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

So I just have to tell you the story, Celeste, is that I am in the middle of adapting Untamed into a TV show. I was sitting in a meeting recently with a producer, a wonderful producer. We had just pitched this whole thing about, you know, the divorce and the bulimia and the mental health and the coming out and the whatever. And the producer sat there quietly. And then he said this,

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

I just have one question and I just think it's going to be what a lot of people have. And so I'm just going to say it and I mean it with all due respect. My question is, what is Glennon's problem?

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

I just have one question and I just think it's going to be what a lot of people have. And so I'm just going to say it and I mean it with all due respect. My question is, what is Glennon's problem?

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

I just have one question and I just think it's going to be what a lot of people have. And so I'm just going to say it and I mean it with all due respect. My question is, what is Glennon's problem?

We Can Do Hard Things
Celeste Ng: Why You Feel Stuck (Best Of)

Celeste, Celeste, I can't add any breadcrumbs.