Diana Helmuth (The Witching Year) The Calling the Quarters Podcast Season 3 Episode 3

Author Bio:
I'm Diana Helmuth (pronounced "hell - myth")
I am a nonfiction author, freelance writer, Silicon Valley startup veteran, hiker, producer and cupcake baker. I'm a pretty bad gardener, but I try to do that, too.

My writing usually (but not always) centers on travel, nature, and millennial philosophical trends. I try to keep things funny. I also cry a lot.

My first book How to Suffer Outside: A Beginner's Guide to Hiking and Backpacking  (Mountaineers Press) won the National Outdoor Book Award for Best Instructional. My second book, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft (Simon Element), was featured on All Things Considered , reviewed in The New York Times, and nominated for the 2023 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Memoir & Autobiography. I was NPR's "Main Character of the Day" on November 1, 2023.

In addition to my nonfiction, I have interviewed 150+ subject matter experts for Abrams' Books famous Fifty Places travel series, and regularly contribute to the pop culture blog Pajiba. I occasionally write and test backpacking gear for Outdoor Life magazine.
Like most writers, writing is not all I do. In the San Francisco Bay Area, I have helped numerous startups with operational growth and thoughtful creation of first products. My business experience is here. 
I am a producer on Da7e and Neil's Pop Culture Adventure  (where we're currently re-watching Twin Peaks). Before that, I produced The Storm: A Lost Rewatch Podcast headed by Joanna Robinson (The Ringer), Neil Miller (One Perfect Shot) and Dave Gonzales (Thrillist), and saw it exceed 4 million downloads.

I studied Cultural Anthropology at UC Berkeley and the American University in Cairo under multiple scholarships. 
I have an obsession with empathy. You may have seen me dance.
I am on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram, but we're having more fun on TikTok. 

 The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft: https://www.amazon.com/Witching-Year-Earnest-Fumbling-Witchcraft-ebook/dp/B0BTZ9KRC6

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Host Dean Jones is a Librarian, Cookbook Reviewer, and writer. Originally from San Diego and having lived his teen years in the Pacific Northwest, Dean has lived for over 30 years in the wonderful but barely affordable San Francisco Bay Area. Dean has been published in “Amoral Beatitudes Magazine” and writes on Medium for “One Table One World,” “The Cookbook for All,” “An Idea,” and “Authors what are you reading.” Contact Dean at callingthequarterspodcast@gmail.com You can listen to my other podcast using the following link https://linktr.ee/thewellseasonedlibrarian

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