HERsay Podcast Caroline Elliott

Host Caroline Elliott discusses our June book picks with Barnes & Noble's Terri Rogers. This month's titles include:
New Fiction
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Poole
Beach Read
Birds of California by Kate Catugno
Self Improvement/Psychology
The High 5 Habit by Mel Robbins
Parenting
Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism by Kate Swenson
(Auto)Biography
Fly Girl: A Memoir by Ann Hood
Children's Picture Book
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
Chapter Book (middle grades)
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman
Young Adult
The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson
College Prep
The Freshman Survival Handbook by Nora Bradbury-Haehl
 

For this month’s HERsay Podcast x Barnes & Noble Book Picks episode, Caroline talks with Barnes & Noble’s Vi Everley about May’s selections. Titles include The Helm of Midnight (new fiction), Explorer’s Guide to the Adirondacks (travel), A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers (women’s health), Cooking for Wizards, Warriors and Dragons: 125 unofficial recipes inspired by The Witcher, Game of Thrones, The Broken Earth and Other Fantasy Favorites (cooking,) Gold Dust Woman: The Biography of Stevie Nicks (biography), and Dare to Lead (business). 

In April, Springtime has arrived, and with warmer weather comes our desire for creativity and a re-focus on physical and mental health. Join Caroline and B&N's Sara LaFaro for this fun and informative discussion our book picks for April. Each month, the HERsay Podcast partners with Barnes & Noble to select books that speak to what's on the minds of women. This month's picks: Remarkably Bright Breatures by Shelby Van Pelt; Mating In Captivity by Esther Perel; The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine; Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life by Marta McDowell; Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (for it's amazing female characters); and The Pepper Thai Cookbook by Pepper Tiegen.

February is an especially great month for hunkering down with a good book. This month we're sharing four titles we think you'll love, as we also celebrate Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day and Black History Month. In today's episode, host Caroline Elliott talks with Barnes & Noble's Clare Hilton about this month's picks: Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman, and Kindred by Octavia Butler.

Happy New Year everyone! We want 2022 to be a year of connection, being our best selves, and doing our part to create a brighter future for generations to come. For this Open Mic New Year message, we asked 17-year-old social activist Lola DeAscentiis to share her vision for how we all can help create the future that her generation wants and needs in the new year and beyond. What's your wish for 2022? What would you most like to see change? Share your voice at hersaypodcast.com or visit us on Instagram at @hersay_podcast.

 

Lola DeAscentiis is a high school senior in Rochester, NY. She is co-President of the Upstate NY Girl Up Coalition, a division of the UN Women’s international Girl Up Campaign, Communications Director for the New York Youth Climate Leaders, and a member of the leadership team for the Rochester Youth Climate Leaders. In her spare time, she is also an interpreter at the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House. You can find her on both Twitter and Instagram at @Lola.Deascentiis
 
 
 
Song: Borough by Blue Dot Sessions

The path to pursuing our goals and dreams is rarely a smooth, easy, or linear one. When we know what we want and have the passion, plan, and tools to achieve it, it feels like nothing can stop us.  But when unforeseen challenges and obstacles test our resilience, we need to take a moment to re-calibrate and create a new plan for achieving our goals.
For many of us, 2021 has been a year of regaining our footing after the uncertainty of lockdowns, perhaps riddled with stops and starts, and getting back to a new sense of normal in a world that seems to be evolving faster than ever. If this sounds familiar to you, you may be looking to get back on track in 2022 to pursue the goals, passions, and dreams you’ve had to put on hold, maybe even defining new goals to pursue and achieve in the coming year.
In this episode of our series She Succeeded (and You Can, Too!), we’re talking with Dr. Dravon James, author of Freedom is Your Birthright and host of the Everyday Peace radio show, who shares tangible steps we can take every day to re-focus, re-ignite our drive, and make our goals and dreams a reality in the new year. Let's do this!
 
Song: Borough by Blue Dot Sessions