“And the point is, you can do it. You have more strength than you think you do. You can go through these tough situations. You move through that adversity, and you move through those struggles. And you keep going.”
- Susan J. Godwin, fervent educator, writer, freelance artist, and today’s guest on Fierce Conversations with Toby
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Some of our fierce topics today:
[03:28] It shouldn't be called breaking up, because that implies a quick break. It's more like a taffy pull.
[04:50] I discovered a female court of writers in the late 17th century.
[09:31] Crazy David was my boyfriend who faked his own death and then showed up at my house in the middle of the night a couple weeks later.
[13:22] I was cocktail waitressing in LA at the world-famous Palomino Club and I waited on Manuel (designer to the stars) and we fell in love and got married and had a baby.
[17:19] But it felt if I didn’t leave him I would get cancer and die – it was such a toxic unhealthy moment.
Susan Godwin is a fervent educator, writer, and freelance artist whose world has always been steeped in books, from Harold and the Purple Crayon; she couldn’t resist drawing on her bedroom wall, no matter how many reprimands; to her first job as a library book mender in her Shaker Heights High School basement to teaching E
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