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Frank Zaccari's avatar

Magic in the margins! Meeting my business partner Melissa Van Oss came from a chance meeting after speaking at a business summit. She then appeared on my podcast and we started to discuss the challenges of trying to market & promote books. This led to our Trust the Process Book Marketing Program, that has achieved 16 consecutive best selling and 8 award winning titles.

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Diane Wyzga's avatar

How wonderful to read your thoughts, Frank! As you know, this podcasting gig can get awfully lonely. We have no idea where & how our words are falling, who they're helping, the attitudes & behaviors they could be shifting.

And then along comes another soul who says: let me tell you a good story: "Meeting my business partner Melissa Van Oss came from a chance meeting after speaking at a business summit. She then appeared on my podcast and we started to discuss the challenges of trying to market & promote books. This led to our Trust the Process Book Marketing Program, that has achieved 16 consecutive best selling and 8 award winning titles."

Because of that we have the courage, the endurance, the self-compassion to carry on *&* maybe even give a hand up to someone else we meet along the Camino.

Bravo! Well done, you!

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Frank Zaccari's avatar

Thank you for the kind words Diane.

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Diane Wyzga's avatar

Each One Lift One is how we roll here, Frank.

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Byron Edgington's avatar

We recently saw a momma deer nursing her young'un not twenty paces ahead of us. It was nature at its simplest and its most profound. Glory be, Shazaam is right!

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Diane Wyzga's avatar

Ah, so very good: taking the time to stop & stare *&* share with the good Mariah.

Precious, my friend!

I was walking at the Earth Sanctuary on Sunday - clearing my mind of all the accumulated sturm und drang. Just ahead of me on the path was a bunny nibbling away on a horsetail fern. One eye on me & one eye on the greens. I stood. It ate. Eventually into the underbrush it hopped. I counted breaths for a bit & walked on/

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Lesley Osborn's avatar

Oh my, you're describing me my friend.

🐾💞🏡✍️

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Diane Wyzga's avatar

"What! You, too! I thought I was the only one." [C.S.Lewis]

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us, Lesley.

With gratitude

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bobping bobping's avatar

Thank you for reminding me to look for the magic in these dark times! Shine on!

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Diane Wyzga's avatar

How very kind of you to take a moment to stop by & share your good words, Patrice. You always manage to hit the high notes just when I need them most.

I write for me & for us all. We're in this together. We need our voices to call out, our hands to reach out, our stories to gather everyone in.

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