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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, book lovers, and welcome to Author's Corner. Get ready
for a whirlwind tour of the latest and greatest reads
and the fascinating stories behind them. Join us as we
chat with authors and newsmakers from all over the world,
diving into their journeys and creative processes. And now here's
the host of Author's Corner, the Emmy Award winning Kate Delady.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I am unbelievably excited to welcome to Author's Corner, Mari Roberto.
She is so inspirational, She's helping so many people, and
I can't wait to see where her journey takes her
and the rest of us along the way. She's authored
several children's books, and she's also done an autobiography that
(00:46):
is fascinating about you know, where she is, how she
grew up and all of that and what led to
her writing and why it's such a mission for her. So, Mari,
thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Oh, I appreciate being here. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So let's talk first about your passion for writing. Did
you always know you had that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I started being really excited about writing when I was
eleven years old, and I adored reading books, and most
of the books that I read were like Tarzan novels, right,
and I was really.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Excited about the adventures.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And so when I ran out of the books that
I could read that Edgar Rice Burroughs had done, I
decided to write my own stories. And so I wrote
my own little stories about Tarzan, boy, Jane and all
of that. And so that's how my interest in writing started.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Nice, And I want to start with the fact that
you also were, I mean, your career, it makes sense
to me. All of it comes kind of full circle, right,
teacher counselor, tell us about that, mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
When I came to the United States for the last time,
I applied to be a counselor and got hired at
Glendale Community College in Glendale, California, and I was hired
as an International student counselor and a career counselor. So
(02:24):
in those responsibilities, I had to do a lot of workshops,
teach classes, do events planning, organizing, carrying out the events
for my students, and do a lot of writing in
terms of my goals and objectives for the program. So yes,
(02:47):
my interest in writing kind of fed into my career
as well, my second career as it is now because
I retired from being a counselor, so now I'm an author.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, the book that you wrote that came out in
the beginning of the year, that was your autobiography that
is out there and it's called Middle of the Road,
and you talk about dysfunction in the family. You talk
about disability and living with a disability and all of that.
Talk about that as well for us.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, well that would lead into a long story. But
to make a long story short, I had polio when
I was two years old, and I was in a
family that was very dysfunctional in terms of my parents' upbringing.
(03:45):
So they had a lot of trauma that they had
experienced as children, and so they kind of transferred, if
you will, the trauma the experiences that they had had
to me and my sister. So although you know, I
(04:06):
had a disability in and of itself and that was
difficult to deal with on many levels, the primary issue
was the dysfunction of my family and the trauma that
they had carried into into our lives. So, you know,
(04:28):
there were there were very good things about our upbringing.
I mean, we traveled quite a lot because of my
father's work, and we got to know different cultures, different languages,
and that kind of expanded my interest.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
In writing as well.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But you know, being having a disability and being in
a dysfunctional family had a lot of issues, as you
can imagine, you know, there were a lot of things
that were difficult to deal with. And so the way
that applies to my career is that I wanted to
(05:13):
help people and primarily adults, and so I applied for
the job at the college, I got it, and then
I started my career in academic and career counseling.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
How gratifying was that for you?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was very gratifying.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I loved helping people, and because we had traveled a lot,
I had had a lot of experience in different countries,
you know, with different cultures. So the fact that I
was working with international students was kind of an easy segue,
you know, into that experience that I had had. So
(05:55):
it helped in dealing with my students from different cultures,
different issues, is different problems because of the fact that
I had, you know, been to their countries or you know,
learn their languages even as.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I did, Right, And how does this so you're giving person?
Obviously you want to help people like you said, the
focus in the career was adults. So it's so interesting
that your children's books that are marvelous have these themes
in it that I think help children. I think that's
(06:30):
the idea. Those that have something different, a disability, whatever
it might be, you can find that wrapped in the message.
How did you go down that path of deciding you
were going to write children's books.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I've always loved children. You know, from the time I
was a little girl, I had the dream of having
six kids, and that you know, that resultive in my
having only one daughter.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
But that's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So I've always loved children, and I've always recognized the
fact that you know, whatever trauma or this function you
experience in life, is experienced in childhood.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
First.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You may have trauma later, but the basis of it,
the foundation of it, is your childhood.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Write books that included characters that had a disability or
some kind of issue, to show children that it's okay
that they can be still be interesting, they can still
be fascinating, and they can still have a happy ending
(07:47):
to their story.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And that was my goal.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I love it. So when you look at your books too,
you have and you've got them right near. You've got
Piccola Comes Home. You have Oh I love this book
Selvesa's Magic. Just it's so beautiful in a side, the words,
the pictures just incredible. And then you've Dottie Saves the Day,
(08:14):
which also is an amazing story. So let's go down
the road of the children's books. Tell us about the
first one that you did and got out into the world.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, the first book was Salcita's Magic. And I've always
wanted to write a book about a character called Salcita,
just because I like the name, and I you know,
I've always been intrigued by orangutan orangutang. So Calsita is
(08:47):
a little one and she has a bad hair day,
but you know, I love her.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And so she was my main character in Celsita's Magic.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And she have a disability, she has only one foot
and so, but she is kind.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Of the you know, main character in all of my books.
You know, she's she's the main one.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, and and and there's more to come to with.
This is just the beginning of so much that's happening there.
And how about Piccola. Tell us about Piccola.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh, she is a Porcupine, and she's one of Sassita's friends,
and she also has issues because she's the biggest member
of the family and she has little siblings, and so
she has to kind of be the main person in
(09:47):
the family besides the mom, to take care of things.
So the issues that she comes up with, that is
what I write about. And you know from the part
that she home, she meets different characters with different issues,
with different personalities, so it all brings her back home,
(10:11):
as you'll see in the book, with a very different,
different love for her family.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, the books too. What's interesting is the books are
also there in Spanish. You have books in Spanish and
in English, and I think that's the goal is to
be able to have them both ways. And you do
a wonderful thing. You've donated books. You have a bigger goal.
Tell us about the bigger goal.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The bigger goal is two help people even more and
with the children's book, to use the books as a
vehicle to help little ones.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So what I intend.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
To do is to be able to buy and donate
free of charge books, materials, pencils, notebooks, whatever you would
need in a school. Two children in a lower socioeconomic status,
(11:21):
so that they could enjoy the things that children with
a higher level of income, you know, have at their disposal.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
So that is one of my goals. My main goal
with the books is that.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, which is wonderful sponsors, whatever, whoever can help prop
this up, because there's so many kids, you're right, that
don't have the advantages that others have and just the
world open up to them when they can read about
things that are different, about characters that are different, and
they can feel like absolutely just like you. Nothing stops
(11:59):
you a daughter a huge career. You know, the fact
that you dealt with the things that you dealt with
as a kid that so many people have similar experiences
with but have a hard time getting out of that space,
and you learned how to do that, and you talk
about that in your autobiography, which then springs forward to
(12:20):
the kind of life that you've led. You don't let
any of that stop you, right.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Right, No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, you know, I consider I consider writing to be
a mission of mine. You know. It used to be
a hobby when I was little, but now it's a
mission of making a difference in somebody's life. Sometimes that
can sound corny or a cliche, but it's really not.
(12:50):
It's it's a it's the meaning that you give to
your life. And I think that everybody has a meaning
to give to somebody's life or to the world in general,
if they are able to do so. So, so that's
part of my meeting.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Wow, it's beautiful, so well said.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There's another book too, and Dottie saves the day. This
is so cool. I carry this with me everywhere and
I put my books in it, and in fact, Soucita
was in here earlier in the day. And I mean,
these are just beautiful. But you have all kinds of things,
including the books, which they can go to your website,
(13:32):
Mary's Journey dot com. But tell us about Dottie.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Dottie. Dottie is my latest protagonist here and she she's
an octopus, of course, and the reason I featured her
in my book is because my spirit animal is octopus.
I love octopus, so I decided to make her the
main character.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Of the book.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And she has quite an interest saying adventure, meeting other
sea creatures. And she also has a slight personality quote
unquote deficiency. It's not really a deficiency, it's a characteristic
so that's featured in the book as well.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's just absolutely wonderful. Let's talk more about your website,
because your website is a one stop shop. Etsy's there,
Shopify's their books, you can get books. Of course, somebody
could go directly to Amazon, but it's easy just to
go to your website and it's easy to find and
you have everything there. You have blogs there, all of that,
(14:40):
doing the products, growing all of this. How fun has
that been?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh, it's a lot of fun. I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You know, I never considered myself to be a business
woman per se, because you know, my goal was to
just be a counselor or a teacher. But now that
I'm doing it, that I have to think about those
features of having this different career.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I really love organizing everything that I'm doing thinking of
not only the present but also the future, my goal,
my mission.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
What's next? So much? Lot?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, I've got a book coming out by the end
of December, another Selfsta's Magic Book, and I'm currently writing
a novel, and I have about three or four projects
for next year and the year after.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Wow, So it's coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That's exciting. And I bring it back to the same
thing that you're a heartfelt person. You have the mission
you talked about. And when kids read your book, what
do you hope they take away any of your books?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
First of all, I hope that they're entertained by it.
I hope they love it, you know. I hope they
love the colors, the characters, the presentation of the entire story.
And after they've written, they've they've read the story. I
(16:15):
hope they get the sense that if those characters can
do what they are doing in the books, the children
can also. They can do anything they want to do,
maybe hard, you know, there may be, you know, different
paths that you have to take to accomplish whatever your
(16:39):
personality dictates that you should do in your life.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
But it's possible and they will do it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I love it. It's a perfect place to end us.
And I want to remind everyone go to Mari's journey
dot com and get Pacola there. So set is there,
Dottie's there, autobiography, Middle of the Roads there so many
sobody passed to go down and very easy to find.
Boy oh boy, Marie Roberta is so wonderful to have
(17:08):
you on author's corner.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Thank you so much, Thank you Kay, thank you very much.
Hello, book lovers, and welcome to Author's Corner. Get ready
for a whirlwind tour of the latest and greatest reads
and the fascinating stories behind them. Join us as we
chat with authors and newsmakers from all over the world,
diving into their journeys and creative processes. And now here's
the host of Author's Corner, the Emmy Award winning Kate Delady.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I am unbelievably excited to welcome to Author's Corner, Mari Roberto.
She is so inspirational, She's helping so many people, and
I can't wait to see where her journey takes her
and the rest of us along the way. She's authored
several children's books, and she's also done an autobiography that
(00:46):
is fascinating about you know, where she is, how she
grew up and all of that and what led to
her writing and why it's such a mission for her. So, Mari,
thanks so much for joining us.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Oh, I appreciate being here. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So let's talk first about your passion for writing. Did
you always know you had that?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
I started being really excited about writing when I was
eleven years old, and I adored reading books, and most
of the books that I read were like Tarzan novels, right,
and I was really.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Excited about the adventures.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And so when I ran out of the books that
I could read that Edgar Rice Burroughs had done, I
decided to write my own stories. And so I wrote
my own little stories about Tarzan, boy, Jane and all
of that. And so that's how my interest in writing started.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Nice, And I want to start with the fact that
you also were, I mean, your career, it makes sense
to me. All of it comes kind of full circle, right,
teacher counselor, tell us about that, mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
When I came to the United States for the last time,
I applied to be a counselor and got hired at
Glendale Community College in Glendale, California, and I was hired
as an International student counselor and a career counselor. So
(02:24):
in those responsibilities, I had to do a lot of workshops,
teach classes, do events planning, organizing, carrying out the events
for my students, and do a lot of writing in
terms of my goals and objectives for the program. So yes,
(02:47):
my interest in writing kind of fed into my career
as well, my second career as it is now because
I retired from being a counselor, so now I'm an author.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, the book that you wrote that came out in
the beginning of the year, that was your autobiography that
is out there and it's called Middle of the Road,
and you talk about dysfunction in the family. You talk
about disability and living with a disability and all of that.
Talk about that as well for us.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, well that would lead into a long story. But
to make a long story short, I had polio when
I was two years old, and I was in a
family that was very dysfunctional in terms of my parents' upbringing.
(03:45):
So they had a lot of trauma that they had
experienced as children, and so they kind of transferred, if
you will, the trauma the experiences that they had had
to me and my sister. So although you know, I
(04:06):
had a disability in and of itself and that was
difficult to deal with on many levels, the primary issue
was the dysfunction of my family and the trauma that
they had carried into into our lives. So, you know,
(04:28):
there were there were very good things about our upbringing.
I mean, we traveled quite a lot because of my
father's work, and we got to know different cultures, different languages,
and that kind of expanded my interest.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
In writing as well.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But you know, being having a disability and being in
a dysfunctional family had a lot of issues, as you
can imagine, you know, there were a lot of things
that were difficult to deal with. And so the way
that applies to my career is that I wanted to
(05:13):
help people and primarily adults, and so I applied for
the job at the college, I got it, and then
I started my career in academic and career counseling.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
How gratifying was that for you?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
It was very gratifying.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
I loved helping people, and because we had traveled a lot,
I had had a lot of experience in different countries,
you know, with different cultures. So the fact that I
was working with international students was kind of an easy segue,
you know, into that experience that I had had. So
(05:55):
it helped in dealing with my students from different cultures,
different issues, is different problems because of the fact that
I had, you know, been to their countries or you know,
learn their languages even as.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
I did, Right, And how does this so you're giving person?
Obviously you want to help people like you said, the
focus in the career was adults. So it's so interesting
that your children's books that are marvelous have these themes
in it that I think help children. I think that's
(06:30):
the idea. Those that have something different, a disability, whatever
it might be, you can find that wrapped in the message.
How did you go down that path of deciding you
were going to write children's books.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
I've always loved children. You know, from the time I
was a little girl, I had the dream of having
six kids, and that you know, that resultive in my
having only one daughter.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
But that's fine.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
So I've always loved children, and I've always recognized the
fact that you know, whatever trauma or this function you
experience in life, is experienced in childhood.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
First.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You may have trauma later, but the basis of it,
the foundation of it, is your childhood.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So I wanted to.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Write books that included characters that had a disability or
some kind of issue, to show children that it's okay
that they can be still be interesting, they can still
be fascinating, and they can still have a happy ending
(07:47):
to their story.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
And that was my goal.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
I love it. So when you look at your books too,
you have and you've got them right near. You've got
Piccola Comes Home. You have Oh I love this book
Selvesa's Magic. Just it's so beautiful in a side, the words,
the pictures just incredible. And then you've Dottie Saves the Day,
(08:14):
which also is an amazing story. So let's go down
the road of the children's books. Tell us about the
first one that you did and got out into the world.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, the first book was Salcita's Magic. And I've always
wanted to write a book about a character called Salcita,
just because I like the name, and I you know,
I've always been intrigued by orangutan orangutang. So Calsita is
(08:47):
a little one and she has a bad hair day,
but you know, I love her.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
And so she was my main character in Celsita's Magic.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
And she have a disability, she has only one foot
and so, but she is kind.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Of the you know, main character in all of my books.
You know, she's she's the main one.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, and and and there's more to come to with.
This is just the beginning of so much that's happening there.
And how about Piccola. Tell us about Piccola.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh, she is a Porcupine, and she's one of Sassita's friends,
and she also has issues because she's the biggest member
of the family and she has little siblings, and so
she has to kind of be the main person in
(09:47):
the family besides the mom, to take care of things.
So the issues that she comes up with, that is
what I write about. And you know from the part
that she home, she meets different characters with different issues,
with different personalities, so it all brings her back home,
(10:11):
as you'll see in the book, with a very different,
different love for her family.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, the books too. What's interesting is the books are
also there in Spanish. You have books in Spanish and
in English, and I think that's the goal is to
be able to have them both ways. And you do
a wonderful thing. You've donated books. You have a bigger goal.
Tell us about the bigger goal.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
The bigger goal is two help people even more and
with the children's book, to use the books as a
vehicle to help little ones.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
So what I intend.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
To do is to be able to buy and donate
free of charge books, materials, pencils, notebooks, whatever you would
need in a school. Two children in a lower socioeconomic status,
(11:21):
so that they could enjoy the things that children with
a higher level of income, you know, have at their disposal.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
So that is one of my goals. My main goal
with the books is that.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Yeah, which is wonderful sponsors, whatever, whoever can help prop
this up, because there's so many kids, you're right, that
don't have the advantages that others have and just the
world open up to them when they can read about
things that are different, about characters that are different, and
they can feel like absolutely just like you. Nothing stops
(11:59):
you a daughter a huge career. You know, the fact
that you dealt with the things that you dealt with
as a kid that so many people have similar experiences
with but have a hard time getting out of that space,
and you learned how to do that, and you talk
about that in your autobiography, which then springs forward to
(12:20):
the kind of life that you've led. You don't let
any of that stop you, right.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Right, No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, you know, I consider I consider writing to be
a mission of mine. You know. It used to be
a hobby when I was little, but now it's a
mission of making a difference in somebody's life. Sometimes that
can sound corny or a cliche, but it's really not.
(12:50):
It's it's a it's the meaning that you give to
your life. And I think that everybody has a meaning
to give to somebody's life or to the world in general,
if they are able to do so. So, so that's
part of my meeting.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Wow, it's beautiful, so well said.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There's another book too, and Dottie saves the day. This
is so cool. I carry this with me everywhere and
I put my books in it, and in fact, Soucita
was in here earlier in the day. And I mean,
these are just beautiful. But you have all kinds of things,
including the books, which they can go to your website,
(13:32):
Mary's Journey dot com. But tell us about Dottie.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Dottie. Dottie is my latest protagonist here and she she's
an octopus, of course, and the reason I featured her
in my book is because my spirit animal is octopus.
I love octopus, so I decided to make her the
main character.
Speaker 4 (13:56):
Of the book.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
And she has quite an interest saying adventure, meeting other
sea creatures. And she also has a slight personality quote
unquote deficiency. It's not really a deficiency, it's a characteristic
so that's featured in the book as well.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
It's just absolutely wonderful. Let's talk more about your website,
because your website is a one stop shop. Etsy's there,
Shopify's their books, you can get books. Of course, somebody
could go directly to Amazon, but it's easy just to
go to your website and it's easy to find and
you have everything there. You have blogs there, all of that,
(14:40):
doing the products, growing all of this. How fun has
that been?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Oh, it's a lot of fun. I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You know, I never considered myself to be a business
woman per se, because you know, my goal was to
just be a counselor or a teacher. But now that
I'm doing it, that I have to think about those
features of having this different career.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
I really love organizing everything that I'm doing thinking of
not only the present but also the future, my goal,
my mission.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
I love it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
What's next? So much? Lot?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, I've got a book coming out by the end
of December, another Selfsta's Magic Book, and I'm currently writing
a novel, and I have about three or four projects
for next year and the year after.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Wow, So it's coming up.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
That's exciting. And I bring it back to the same
thing that you're a heartfelt person. You have the mission
you talked about. And when kids read your book, what
do you hope they take away any of your books?
Speaker 2 (15:55):
First of all, I hope that they're entertained by it.
I hope they love it, you know. I hope they
love the colors, the characters, the presentation of the entire story.
And after they've written, they've they've read the story. I
(16:15):
hope they get the sense that if those characters can
do what they are doing in the books, the children
can also. They can do anything they want to do,
maybe hard, you know, there may be, you know, different
paths that you have to take to accomplish whatever your
(16:39):
personality dictates that you should do in your life.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
But it's possible and they will do it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I love it. It's a perfect place to end us.
And I want to remind everyone go to Mari's journey
dot com and get Pacola there. So set is there,
Dottie's there, autobiography, Middle of the Roads there so many
sobody passed to go down and very easy to find.
Boy oh boy, Marie Roberta is so wonderful to have
(17:08):
you on author's corner.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Thank you so much, Thank you Kay, thank you very much.
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