Book · recommended on 1 episode
Real American
Julie Lythcott-Haims
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Julie Lythcott-Haims
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This book by Julie Lythcott-Haims came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Jessica Lahey. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“her second book was a book called real american and i expected julie to write a straight up memoir ... she taught me to be brave with that book”— Jessica Lahey
The guest here is Jessica Lahey: New York Times bestselling author of The Gift of Failure and The Addiction Inoculation who taught grades 6-12 for over 20 years and worked five years in an adolescent drug-and-alcohol rehab. She is in long-term recovery and serves as a recovery coach at Sana, a medical detox center in Stowe, Vermont. Teacher and author Jessica Lahey on raising self-sufficient kids, preventing addiction, her own sobriety, and learning to write through failure.
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