Julee Balko

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173 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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Uncorking a Story · Square Hearts and Second Chances, with Julee Balko · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, I know.

I I always say like, um I always knew I wanted to write a book.

I didn't know grief was what was gonna get me there.

But um after I had my twins, um my my grief for my mother came back 'cause when you have two babies, you miss your mom.

Um and even though I'd have a very complicated relationship with my mother, um, I thought now's the time.

If I'm gonna write, let me get it out.

I'm sleep deprived, I'm sad.

And that's how my first book was born.

So Square Hearts is about how the heart has many sides, but people have even more.

And it follows the story of Nicola Cooper who loses her husband in a tragic car accident two years earlier and then is kind of trying to rebuild her life.

Her husband's best friend invites her to a cottage in North Carolina where she can live with her daughter.

And Nicola kind of gets into some tricky situations.

Her neighbor turns out to be a narcissist.

Her um sorry, on my daughter's to the right of me and I'm like, You can't be here, but I love you.

You edit this, right?

Okay, thank you.

I'm like, huh, let's just go upstairs.

I love you.

It's so great working from home with kids.

Um, let's can we restart that?

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