This is the sixteenth episode of "Talking with Authors" by HEC Media and HEC Books. We're a program dedicated to speaking with some of the best selling authors around, covering many different genres.
Today, our guest is a journalist, psychotherapist, and New York Times best selling author Lori Gottlieb. We spoke with her as she was on tour in November of 2019 for her book “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” by publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Lori Gottlieb’s professional career has taken her from film development, to TV writing and production in the 1990s with NBC, to medical school, to journalism, and to psychology later on. And now with her behind-the-scenes look into the life of a therapist in the book “Maybe You Should Talk to Someone” being adapted to a TV series, she’s coming full circle…back to the media world. She very much wants to tell stories about real life and to help lead people to take care of their mental health like they would other aspects of their well-being.
And between this book, her column in “The Atlantic”, her public speaking work, and her therapy practice she’s on a mission to have as many people as possible realize that they too are worthy and deserve to be helped and heard in order to live a more healthy life over all. Psychologist, journalist, and New York Times Best Selling author Lori Gottlieb on this episode of Talking with Authors from HEC Media and HEC Books.
Our host and interviewer this time is Christina Chastain
HEC Media is a production company out of St. Louis, Missouri. With the help of independent bookstore Left Bank Books and St. Louis County Library, we are able to sit down with these amazing writers and thought leaders to discuss their work, their inspiration, and what makes them special. You can watch video versions of most of our interviews at hecmedia.org.
Host and editor of this episode - Paul Schankman
Photography - Peter Foggy and Ken Calcaterra
Graphics - Jane Ballew and Greg Kopp
Supervising Producer - Julie Winkle
Production Support - Christina Chastain
HEC Media Executive Director - Dennis Riggs
Talking with Authors Podcast Executive Producer - Christina Chastain
Podcast Producer - Rod Milam
Podcast Editor - Paul Langdon
Podcast Host - Rod Milam
Special thanks to the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival
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