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In this episode, Lisa Cooper Ellison interviews Tia Levings about building a writing career from trauma and navigating book launches.

Send us Fan Mail What does it really take to build a writing career out of your hardest story and stay whole while doing it? In this episode, I sit down with author Tia Levings, whose memoir A Well-Trained Wife has become an increasingly timely reckoning with religious trauma, patriarchy, and survival. With her second book I Belong to Me just hitting shelves, Tia pulls back the curtain on navigating back-to-back book launches, genre-hopping with intention, and growing a 110,000-follower platf...

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Host: Lisa Cooper Ellison

Guest: Tia Levings

Topics covered

• writing career
• trauma
• book launches
• platform growth
• healing
• religious trauma

Keywords

• writing
• trauma
• book launch
• memoir
• religious trauma
• healing
• platform growth

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Books & works: A Well-Trained Wife, I Belong to Me

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