Welcome to The Write Start podcast. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full-time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many local and national magazines and newspapers and written, co-written and ghostwritten more than 25 books. This podcast is where I share my experiences and give you tips on getting work and making more money. I also bring on amazing guests who have had successful freelance writing careers too. Let’s get started! My guest is Jen Coken, a leadership coach and speaker who helps people bust through imposter syndrome. You can find her at JenCoken.com where you can also take her quiz to see if you are impacted by imposter syndrome. Before you do that though, enjoy this interview with Jen Coken, and then when you’re done, go take the quiz. Thank you all for listening.  Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast. If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time. 1

Welcome to The Write Start podcast. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full-time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many local and national magazines and newspapers and written, co-written to, and ghostwritten more than 250 books. This podcast is where I share my experiences and tips and bring on amazing guests who have had successful freelance writing careers too. Let’s get started! In this episode, I talk about finding ideas. One of the most common comments I have ever had about my writing is “Lisa you’re writing about so much…how do you come up with all of these ideas?” So I wanted to talk about that because there’s more to it than you might think. There are so many ways to find ideas. I’m going to give you some, but I’m hoping that you go to my website – thewritestartpodcast.com and you’ll see a link to a PDF that provides 25 ways to get ideas. You’ll get some of them in this podcast, but there’s a bunch there too. I’d also love to hear from you if you have other ways of finding ideas for your writing. There is a code in there for a discount on my upcoming course and I will send that out again once I get it up on the site. Well, that’s it for this week’s edition of The Write Start podcast. thank you all for listening.  Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time. 

(Let me know if this sounds familiar – audio issues, but Merry Christmas to me because I invested in a new microphone and this will be the last poor quality podcast episode. So my sincerest apologies to you, the listeners, and especially to my guest and friend Kate Hanley but please I can’t recommend it strongly enough that you try to listen to the podcast because Kate gives some great advice and shares some great tips.) Welcome to The Write Start. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full-time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many local and national magazines and newspapers and written, co-written, and ghostwritten more than 20 books. This podcast is where I share my experiences and tips and bring on amazing guests who have had successful freelance writing careers too. Let’s get started! My guest on this edition of The Write Start is Kate Hanley, New York Times-bestselling ghostwriter, and personal development coach. Her books include Stress Less, A Year of Daily Calm, and The Anywhere, Anytime Chill Guide. She is also the author of How to Be a Better Person: 401 Simple Ways to Make a Difference in Yourself helps you live your best life (in 5 minutes a day).—and the World and she also is the founder of the How to Be a Better Person podcast (and man, in this world, we need that podcast). Her articles have been published in dozens of national publications, including Real Simple, Parents, Yoga Journal, and Martha Stewart’s Whole Living, and she’s been quoted in the Harvard Business Review blog, the New York Times, and Fortune.com.Kate thank you so much for being on the show and thank you all for listening.  Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time. 

Welcome to The Write Start. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many national magazines and newspapers and written, co-written to and ghostwritten more than 20 books. I’ll share my experiences and tips and bring on guests who have had successful freelance writing careers too.I’m excited for our guest today but I have to tell you that in this episode and in my next, I struggled with some audio problems, but I hope you’ll stick with the episode. The issues come and go and mostly happen when I am the one talking. I finally have rectified the problem going forward, but this interview and the next one that you’ll hear were, unfortunately, caught up in the bad audio issues. And for that, I’m so sorry. Listen to this episode here!Today on The Write Start podcast my guest is Laura Fuentes, the creator of MOMables, where she helps busy parents transform their mealtimes and make healthy eating a lifestyle they can sustain long-term as a family. With her Family KickStart Program, Laura has helped thousands of families improve their health and wellness by establishing healthier eating habits, building a strong mindset, focusing on quality sleep, and incorporating physical movement into their lifestyle.If you want to learn how to reduce your feelings of overwhelm and show up in your life the way you’re meant to, simplify healthy eating, get more quality sleep, develop a strong mindset, and treat your body right, download her FREE Busy Mom’s Guide to Living Your Best Life.She’s the Author of 5 Cookbooks, a successful entrepreneur, public speaker and spokesperson, makes regular television appearances, and competed on Food Network and won! Laura is bilingual, born and raised in Spain, and currently lives outside of New Orleans with her husband and 3 kids. You can find more about Laura on LauraFuentes.com, on Instagram @LauraSFuentes and @MOMables.

On today’s episode of The Write Start my guest is Cindy Begel and I have to admit that I decided to do this episode purely for selfish reasons because this episode focuses on becoming a television and movie writer and not becoming a typical print journalist -- what I really focus on here. I still think that any writer can learn, and be inspired by, Cindy so I hope you'll listen.Cindy Begel is a television writer-producer who has worked for the legendary Garry Marshall and Norman Lear. She’s worked on many classic prime time hit shows, including some of my favorite TV shows ever --  Mork & Mindy, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Jeffersons, Head of The Class, Alice, and The New Leave It To Beaver. She has also written for The Martin Short Show, and Mama’s Family. She created/wrote all 52 episodes of the animated series The Kids From Room 402. She wrote feature films for Paramount and Universal Studios. Cindy has some great stories to tell including her chat with Lucille Ball, dinner with Carol Burnett, making Robin Williams laugh and more! Well, that’s it for this week’s edition of The Write Start podcast. Thank you all for listening.  Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time. 

Welcome to Episode 19 of The Write Start podcast. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many national magazines and newspapers and written, co-written to and ghostwritten more than 20 books. Now I’ll share my experiences and have on some great guests who will show you everything you need to know to find ideas, land assignments, and, most importantly, make money. Today on The Write Start my guest is Brette Sember. Now the extremely short version of Brette’s bio is that she is an is award-winning author, freelancer, content producer, book coach, ghostwriter, indexer, developmental editor, and consultant. Her latest book is WWII Battle Trivia for Kids. Sember has written more than 40 of her own titles, ghosted many others, and coached many authors who have gone on to win awards. She regularly works as a content producer, indexer, and editor and continues to publish articles and essays. Her website is www.BretteSember.comWell that’s it for this week’s edition of The Write Start podcast. Brette thank you so much for being on the show and thank you all for listening.  Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time. 

Welcome to Episode 18 of The Write Start. I'm Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full-time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many national magazines and newspapers and written more than 20 books. It’s my career, not my hobby and, on this podcast, you’ll learn everything you need to know about writing --from finding ideas to landing assignments and, most importantly, making money. This week on The Write Start my guest is successful full time freelance writer Jennifer L.W. Fink, RN, BSN, a Registered Nurse-turned-writer. She’s the creator of BuildingBoys.net, co-host of the ON BOYS parenting podcast, and author of The First –Time Mom’s Guide to Raising Boys. Jennifer has been published by The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, FOX News, Parents, Cancer Today and Medscape.  Today she’s here to talk about her career and her book, one I wish I had when I was raising my son. But let’s get into this and find out how she’s been so successful in her full-time freelance writing career. Also, I have created a course that will launch at the end of August. No fancy title… It’s simply called Become a Successful Freelance Writer but it includes so much. I dig deep into finding ideas, pitching editors and using one article or idea to create multiple assignments. The course is intensive and you will get several resources from me, but most of all you’ll finish the course with a clear path of your writing goals and how to get there. If you sign up, you will have access to me at any time while you’re taking the course. The outline will be put up on the website shortly, but the course is open for enrollment as of now. Just go to https://the-writer-start.teachable.com/ to sign up. I know there are so many of these courses out there, but I’ve lived what I’m going to teach you and I’ve been teaching courses like this for years. I hope I can help you to finally become the successful full-time freelance writer that you’ve always wanted to be. https://the-writer-start.teachable.com/Well, that’s it for this week’s edition of The Write Start podcast. Jenn thank you so much for being on the show and thank you all for listening.  Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time.  

Welcome to Episode 17 of The Write Start. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full-time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many national magazines and written more than 20 books. On this podcast, you’ll learn from me and my amazing guests everything you need to know about writing for different genres, finding ideas, finding work, pitching editors and more, but most importantly, you’ll learn about making money. Let’s get started! On today’s episode of The Write Start, I have a very special guest who I love with all my heart. Nicole Brinkley is not only my daughter, but she is also the manager of Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY and the host of the biweekly podcast Misshelved -- a podcast for book lovers. I have her on the show today because she has an interesting perspective about books and I know many of you want to write fiction and YA books, so listen closely because even I have learned so much from her. Links from today's show: Book Industry Charitable Foundation: https://www.bincfoundation.org/We Need Diverse Books: https://diversebooks.org/A special gift for my listeners this week! As writers, we do a lot of sitting so taking care of our health is extremely important. MOSSA On Demand offers 12 unique programs with hundreds of workouts at 10-, 30-, and 60-minute lengths. MOSSA On Demand is available for just $9.99 per month, and new customers can sign up for a free trial but listeners to The Write Start podcast get an extra bonus. if you use my coupon code you can get an additional 30 days free. This is actually in addition to the standard offer of a free 14-day trial, so it is 44 days total. The coupon code WRITESTART21Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share it and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time. 

Welcome to Episode 16 of The Write Start. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and this podcast is all about becoming a successful full-time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many national magazines and written more than 20 books. It’s my career, not my hobby and, on this podcast, you’ll learn from me and my amazing guests everything you need to know about writing for different genres, finding ideas, finding work, pitching editors and more, but most importantly, you’ll learn about making money. Let’s get started! Last week, I talked to Barbara Clarke about writing memoirs, and this week, I continue that conversation with another Erik Sherman who is on his 7th book working with professional athletes about their life stories. I had the pleasure to talk to Erik about his process, how he started working with these athletes and what else he does in his career. A little about Erik Sherman -- He has been writing professionally since he was 14 years old. He’s the author of Out At Home, with former Dodgers and A’s outfielder Glenn Burke, who invented the ‘high five’ and died tragically of AIDS, is currently being made into a movie by actress/producer Jamie Lee Curtis through Amazon Studios.  Sherman is also the co-author of four other highly acclaimed baseball autobiographies with Steve Blass, Mookie Wilson, Davey Johnson, the 69 Mets, and his most recent book is Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox In Their Own Words which has an April 1, 2021 release date.  Erik is an annual lecturer at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.I hope you enjoy the interview.Well, that’s it for this week’s edition of The Write Start podcast. Erik thank you so much for being on the show and thank you all for listening. Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share the podcast and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time. 

Welcome to Episode 15 of The Write Start. I’m Lisa Iannucci, and The Write Start podcast is all about becoming a successful full-time freelance writer. I’ve had a very long career where I’ve written for many national magazines and I've written more than 20 books. It’s my career, not my hobby and, on this podcast, you’ll learn from me, and my amazing guests, everything you need to know about writing for different genres, finding ideas, finding work, pitching editors, and more, but most importantly, you’ll learn about making money. Let’s get started! My courses are coming soon! A shout out to a new podcast -- Misshelved. Now I have to say this is not an advertisement and I’m not being paid to tell you about it. That’s because I wouldn’t take a penny from my daughter -- it’s her podcast. She doesn’t even know I’m saying this, but I have to tell you that if you’re a writer or if you love books, you need to check out Misshelved, a new bi-weekly podcast series from award-winning bookseller Nicole Brinkley. In each episode, you’ll meet an independent bookseller and listen in as they talk to one of their favorite authors about books, publishing, and the world we live in. You can find Misshelved on several platforms, including Spotify.  Please check it out. So for this week’s interview, I talk to author Barbara Clarke’s about her new memoir The Red Kitchen. I wanted to dive into the writing of a memoir because I talk to so many writers who want to start their careers by writing their memoir but really don’t have an idea of how to go about it and since this is Clarke’s second memoir, I thought she would have some good insight on the process. I was right. Clarke’s book chronicles the long-term effects of an early childhood trauma and how that alters a life's course, but it’s written in a way that’s deep and funny all at the same time  “The Red Kitchen” (April 6, 2021, She Writes Press)/ Enjoy the interview -- oh and sorry about the noise in this one I’m working on it again but you can still hear it! Please follow me on Instagram at @thevirgintraveler as well as @thewritestartpodcast and If you like what you heard on this podcast, please share the podcast and leave me a rating or a review wherever you listen to The Write Start. Thanks again and I’ll see you next time.