September 29, 2025 • 16 mins
Our host Darriel Roy interviews American author, Heather Snodgrass about her debut novel, A Love Letter to Reading.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. Thank you so much for watching. This
shows all about giving you insights and showcasing brands that
help you to live your best life and give you confidence.
As always, I want to kick out your morning with
some motivational advice to help you to feel inspired and
energized to start your day today. I am quite understanding
that sometimes things don't work out as planned because something
(00:21):
bigger and better is on the way. So often when
we experience failure or the disappointment of things not going
our way, we feel that it's final, that what we
want just can't happen. But oftentimes it's exactly in those
times that we are being prepared to receive an even
greater opportunity. I can't tell you how many times in
my life where something didn't work out as planned, only
(00:43):
for me to experience even greater joy and success which
I didn't see coming. Oftentimes things don't work out as
planned for a reason, and even if we don't know
what that reason is, trust in the knowing that it
is all working out in your favor behind the scenes.
The next time you feel disappointed that something didn't work
out as you anticipated or hoped, remind yourself that something
(01:04):
even better is on the way. Get excited that what
you want is being replaced by something even better. As
Marilyn Monroe so famously quoted, sometimes good things fall apart,
so better things could fall together. Next up on the show,
we have American author Heather Snodgrass. Heather, thank you so
much for being on the show today. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm great. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm doing well. Thank you so much for being here.
We have a lot to talk about. But before we
get into that, but I know before you became an author,
you went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for
being an actor. So tell us about that punit in
your life.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, it was an incredible period of my life. I'm
forever grateful for the whole experience. I really feel like
it developed myself as a person as a whole, and
I got to meet lots of different people from lots
of different walks of life, and it really expanded my worldviews.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Plus it took me out of.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
My comfort zone and by being you know, across the
country from Colorado and California, it really it really helped
me expand all of my confidence and just helped me grow.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I love that. I mean, life is about expanding out
if your comfort zone, right. Yeah, And when I was
reading your bio, what I really liked is that you
said that you have playlist for everything, and when you
meet someone, you like them to make a playlist about themselves.
What do you think a playlist can reveal about somebody?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Ooo?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Really, I'm a lyric person.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I really like to resonate with lyrics, and I love
when it happens when you're listening to a song and
a lyric just makes you go, wait, that's about me.
I'm connected to this song and you're either connected to
the artists, which usually happens, and also you connect to
other people who maybe feel that same way about that song.
(02:54):
And I know a lot of people like music for
like the music and the beats and stuff, which also
can kind of help reveal their energy a little bit.
But more than anything, I love connecting to the lyrics
and I love connecting to other people who resonate with
those lyrics too.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I love that I am a big music person Spotify,
and I'm always changing my list based on my mood,
which changes very often. I love that I can connect
with you on that Yeah, and fast forward let's talk
about your debut novel, A love letter to reading. It
has some pretty interesting characters. Tell us about the synopsis
of the book.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, so, the book follows Scorpion, who is a trained
master assassin. She's raised as a master assassin. She for
a career. She chooses pediatric oncology as a nurse because
she likes to connect to the kids that give her
a sense of the childhood she didn't have.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And she always.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Thinks she's on the right side of things, and she
justifies killing as doing good for the world and making
the world a better place until she is assigned a
target that kind of makes her second guess everything, and after.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
A series of events, she ends up joining.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The target's book club and starts finding herself resonating with the.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Characters in the books, which help her not feel so lonely.
And then she comes to terms with justice.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And the consequences of her actions and how she needs
to take down her family's business before they take her out.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Very nice. Yeah, I have to ask you, how did
you come up with this concert?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh? Well, the Scorpion is a character that I've had
for probably decades.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
She's kind of just.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Been in my mind yeah, And through lived experiences and
talking to other people and getting to know other people's
lived experiences and kind of deciding to write in my
love of music, my love of reading, my love of
the arts as a whole, I kind of started to
(05:08):
develop a full character that I really liked, and the
story really came together through getting to know other people
in the world and getting to know their experiences.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Very nice and speaking about experiences, this book explores the
complexity of the human nature and how the arts can
bring out the best of us. So tell us about
that concept. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Believe the arts are meant to bring out the best
of us.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And I believe that because the arts are all developed
from some sort of emotion, and I think, you know,
I think that's what resonates with people, and whether we
realize we're feeling that emotion or not.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
When we see or read it or hear it portrayed
in some.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Way, we connect to each other that way. And I
feel like connection, especially through kindness and empathy with each
other really is what brings out the best of us.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Absolutely, And let's go back to the character. I know.
The main character, as you mentioned, is a master assassin.
How does reading you know change her life.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think it's really comes down to number one.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
When she starts resonating with other characters, she really explores
her empathy that she buries a lot of the time
because she's she's an empathetic assassin, which is pretty rare,
but she has that tendency, especially when she starts at
such a young age when we all kind of have empathy,
(06:43):
and I you know, through reading she really is able
to understand justice and what she needs to do to
you know, redeem her life and herself.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And if there's one thing people can take away from
this book, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Ideally, I would like to say, I would love for
people to take away empathy being the biggest thing because
all of our actions and decisions have consequences, and I think,
you know, from anything, maybe we say something or we
do something. I think we can always affect another person's
(07:26):
life and we don't fully realize the power that we
hold in that regard, and I in my heart, I
believe we would all choose to make somebody else's life
better if we would realize that power that we hold.
So I would love for people to take empathy away
as a thing that we can all make the world
(07:47):
a better place and maybe choose our words with kindness
at the base.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's a beautiful message. I think that's so true, right,
empathy even for you know, others, but also for ourselves.
I feel like sometimes it's so hard on ourselves, and
you know, we get down on ourselves, and having empathy
is such a beautiful thing. So I think that's a
great message to share. And I love that you brought
so many aspects of yourself to this main character, Scorpion.
(08:14):
I feel like, you know music, you're love of writing.
What kind of similarities do you see in yourself and
the main character?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know? I when I was writing this, I had
to walk a fine line with Scorpion because part of
me wanted to go the route of writing her modeled
after myself, especially you know, developing those similarities with like
the music and the reading and just arts in general.
And she has a little bit of my sense of humor.
(08:45):
I would say, maybe maybe a little more than a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But I really didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Want to make her too much like myself because I
didn't want to become too attached to her, And you know,
I was worried if I became too attached to her,
I wouldn't write some of the harder parts to write
for her, as far as like her flaws and coming
to terms with what she needed to do and you know,
(09:10):
actually finding out she's on the wrong side of things.
So I was really careful not to not to make
her too much like myself, just so that I didn't
become attached to her in that regard and then not
do her any favors in the end.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, and I know she joins the book club, and
you also have your own book club, right, tell us
about your club.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I mean, I kind of do. I've tried to start it.
I don't know how many people I have or anything
like that. But through my website, I mostly I have
a couple different.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Pages on my site.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
One is all the books that I mentioned in this
in this book, since it is basically a dedication to
other books. But then I also have a page where
people can follow along with what I'm reading and kind
of what my what my feel on those books are.
I'm not one to really like bash on anything, so
(10:08):
you know, either way, I haven't not enjoyed anything I've
read this year. I've been enjoying it, so I'm not
sure how many people I have going along on the
journey with me, but anybody that wants to come is
welcome become join me on this one, and they can
always reach out to and let me know what they think.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'm sure it's going to expand because you have a
big audience, you know. I was reading the reviews on Amazon,
and so many people had such great things to say
about this book and how it's really compelled them. How
has it been to see all these positive reviews.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And I'm really trying to stay in the moment with
this whole thing and not take any of this for granted,
because you know, I mean, you start out on a
journey like this and you want people to read it,
and you're like, oh, you know, the more people the better,
and you think things like, well, if I could get
on a bestseller list, that would be ideal. But really,
for me, I'm like, if I could just touch one
(11:04):
person's life and maybe make it a little better in
some way, that's what I want. So to see all
of these reviews and to see people liking it, and
I've had people directly message me and tell me what
they think of it, and every single message just means
everything to me, because that's that's what I did this for,
(11:25):
is really that connection and just helping other people feel
seen and helping other people just connect, you know on
some level.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Absolutely, And speaking about helping other people, you know, I
really created this platform to inspire, to uplift and to
really showcase that anything is possible if you have a
dream of vision and determination. So I want to ask you,
how is determination and passion play a part in your
success and even bringing this novel to life? Because you know,
so many people have ideas, amazing ideas, but you know
(11:57):
there's nothing more common than waste and talent people not
having rights to actually put it up there. So how
is that was passing? Determination played a part in your success?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You know it's been some time now, but it you know,
there was a part earlier on where I had to
reframe how I looked at failure because at that point
in my life, you know, again it was pretty early on,
but I felt like everything in my life at that
point was a failure.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I felt like I was personally a failure and.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
It it just wasn't a good way to be and
it wasn't a good way to live.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And once I kind of started.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Rethinking what was happening, and I started realizing I wasn't
being or I wasn't failing, but I was being redirected.
I was being you know, I was being taught stuff.
And I've learned way more from failure than I've ever
learned from success. And so one of my favorite expressions
(13:02):
is redirection or rejection is redirection, and I'm kind of
lived by that now. And what it did was it
ultimately made me take my determination and my focus and
all of that and turn it inward. So now I
focus on things like doing everything out of like kindness
(13:23):
and spreading spreading that through the world, that's really what
I want to do, and focusing on gratitude to some
of those times there's they're really difficult to be grateful for,
but there are other things that I'm so incredibly grateful
for that are probably viewed from the outside world as
like a failure. But now I'm so grateful that it
(13:45):
didn't work out the way that I thought it was
going to work out, or that I wanted it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
To work out.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
So really it just was a matter of redirecting what
I was determined to do, or redirecting what my you
know what my focus really was on, and that was
to be the better person that I could be.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I love that. You know that gave me goosebumps because
I believe in synergy and it just happens to be that.
The intro of my show today is all about you know,
when things don't work out as plan, it's because something
betters on the way. And everything that you said was
it just fit in so perfectly to my intro without
you even knowing it, see, and I nicity like that,
(14:25):
that's so yeah, exactly right. Sometimes failure, you know, we
take it to hearts and we think it's you know
that when we fail, we think that's final and that
it's not going to happen. And it's so easy to
internalize that and think that it's done. But you know what,
so often something better comes along. Actually, every single time
you know something that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Everything it really doeses like.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
There's so many things in my life that I look
back on and I'm like, and I took that really hard,
and yeah, but now I can see the path that
it led me on and I'm I'm just so grateful
for that.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I love that. And Heather, what else is happening for you?
Are you. Can we expect more books in the future.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, So I have a series of short stories that
I'm probably going to republish. They were up on Amazon Novella,
but they took that down, so I'm thinking I'm actually
going to publish those into short stories, and then I
have a few more ideas for books.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This story, love Letter.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
To Reading, was actually originally a screenplay for a limited series,
which I had already written out, and I'm going to
still be pursuing that as a as a limited series somewhere,
so we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
But yeah, that's what's in the works. The books, the.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Books that I have in mind for the future aren't
really in the same like genre, so I'm going to
be trying a few different things.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You know, I have to ask you, because I believe
in the law of attraction, who would you get to
play a scorpion in a screenplay?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Myself?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Of course I wrote it myself. I wrote it as
as a character that I wanted to play, so yeah,
that would be.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Ideal, you know, yes, absolutely, but yeah, I love that. Heather,
thank you so much for being on the show today.
Congratulations on all your success and keep spreading the message
of kindness and love. I think that's so needed in
the world.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Thank you. I agree and you as well, you do
it too.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So thank you, thank you so much. The Dear rosso
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Hello and welcome. Thank you so much for watching. This
shows all about giving you insights and showcasing brands that
help you to live your best life and give you confidence.
As always, I want to kick out your morning with
some motivational advice to help you to feel inspired and
energized to start your day today. I am quite understanding
that sometimes things don't work out as planned because something
(00:21):
bigger and better is on the way. So often when
we experience failure or the disappointment of things not going
our way, we feel that it's final, that what we
want just can't happen. But oftentimes it's exactly in those
times that we are being prepared to receive an even
greater opportunity. I can't tell you how many times in
my life where something didn't work out as planned, only
(00:43):
for me to experience even greater joy and success which
I didn't see coming. Oftentimes things don't work out as
planned for a reason, and even if we don't know
what that reason is, trust in the knowing that it
is all working out in your favor behind the scenes.
The next time you feel disappointed that something didn't work
out as you anticipated or hoped, remind yourself that something
(01:04):
even better is on the way. Get excited that what
you want is being replaced by something even better. As
Marilyn Monroe so famously quoted, sometimes good things fall apart,
so better things could fall together. Next up on the show,
we have American author Heather Snodgrass. Heather, thank you so
much for being on the show today. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm great. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm doing well. Thank you so much for being here.
We have a lot to talk about. But before we
get into that, but I know before you became an author,
you went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for
being an actor. So tell us about that punit in
your life.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, it was an incredible period of my life. I'm
forever grateful for the whole experience. I really feel like
it developed myself as a person as a whole, and
I got to meet lots of different people from lots
of different walks of life, and it really expanded my worldviews.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Plus it took me out of.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
My comfort zone and by being you know, across the
country from Colorado and California, it really it really helped
me expand all of my confidence and just helped me grow.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I love that. I mean, life is about expanding out
if your comfort zone, right. Yeah, And when I was
reading your bio, what I really liked is that you
said that you have playlist for everything, and when you
meet someone, you like them to make a playlist about themselves.
What do you think a playlist can reveal about somebody?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Ooo?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Really, I'm a lyric person.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I really like to resonate with lyrics, and I love
when it happens when you're listening to a song and
a lyric just makes you go, wait, that's about me.
I'm connected to this song and you're either connected to
the artists, which usually happens, and also you connect to
other people who maybe feel that same way about that song.
(02:54):
And I know a lot of people like music for
like the music and the beats and stuff, which also
can kind of help reveal their energy a little bit.
But more than anything, I love connecting to the lyrics
and I love connecting to other people who resonate with
those lyrics too.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
I love that I am a big music person Spotify,
and I'm always changing my list based on my mood,
which changes very often. I love that I can connect
with you on that Yeah, and fast forward let's talk
about your debut novel, A love letter to reading. It
has some pretty interesting characters. Tell us about the synopsis
of the book.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Yeah, so, the book follows Scorpion, who is a trained
master assassin. She's raised as a master assassin. She for
a career. She chooses pediatric oncology as a nurse because
she likes to connect to the kids that give her
a sense of the childhood she didn't have.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And she always.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Thinks she's on the right side of things, and she
justifies killing as doing good for the world and making
the world a better place until she is assigned a
target that kind of makes her second guess everything, and after.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
A series of events, she ends up joining.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
The target's book club and starts finding herself resonating with the.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Characters in the books, which help her not feel so lonely.
And then she comes to terms with justice.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
And the consequences of her actions and how she needs
to take down her family's business before they take her out.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Very nice. Yeah, I have to ask you, how did
you come up with this concert?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Oh? Well, the Scorpion is a character that I've had
for probably decades.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
She's kind of just.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Been in my mind yeah, And through lived experiences and
talking to other people and getting to know other people's
lived experiences and kind of deciding to write in my
love of music, my love of reading, my love of
the arts as a whole, I kind of started to
(05:08):
develop a full character that I really liked, and the
story really came together through getting to know other people
in the world and getting to know their experiences.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Very nice and speaking about experiences, this book explores the
complexity of the human nature and how the arts can
bring out the best of us. So tell us about
that concept. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Believe the arts are meant to bring out the best
of us.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And I believe that because the arts are all developed
from some sort of emotion, and I think, you know,
I think that's what resonates with people, and whether we
realize we're feeling that emotion or not.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
When we see or read it or hear it portrayed
in some.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Way, we connect to each other that way. And I
feel like connection, especially through kindness and empathy with each
other really is what brings out the best of us.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Absolutely, And let's go back to the character. I know.
The main character, as you mentioned, is a master assassin.
How does reading you know change her life.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think it's really comes down to number one.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
When she starts resonating with other characters, she really explores
her empathy that she buries a lot of the time
because she's she's an empathetic assassin, which is pretty rare,
but she has that tendency, especially when she starts at
such a young age when we all kind of have empathy,
(06:43):
and I you know, through reading she really is able
to understand justice and what she needs to do to
you know, redeem her life and herself.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And if there's one thing people can take away from
this book, what would it be?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Ideally, I would like to say, I would love for
people to take away empathy being the biggest thing because
all of our actions and decisions have consequences, and I think,
you know, from anything, maybe we say something or we
do something. I think we can always affect another person's
(07:26):
life and we don't fully realize the power that we
hold in that regard, and I in my heart, I
believe we would all choose to make somebody else's life
better if we would realize that power that we hold.
So I would love for people to take empathy away
as a thing that we can all make the world
(07:47):
a better place and maybe choose our words with kindness
at the base.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's a beautiful message. I think that's so true, right,
empathy even for you know, others, but also for ourselves.
I feel like sometimes it's so hard on ourselves, and
you know, we get down on ourselves, and having empathy
is such a beautiful thing. So I think that's a
great message to share. And I love that you brought
so many aspects of yourself to this main character, Scorpion.
(08:14):
I feel like, you know music, you're love of writing.
What kind of similarities do you see in yourself and
the main character?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You know? I when I was writing this, I had
to walk a fine line with Scorpion because part of
me wanted to go the route of writing her modeled
after myself, especially you know, developing those similarities with like
the music and the reading and just arts in general.
And she has a little bit of my sense of humor.
(08:45):
I would say, maybe maybe a little more than a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
But I really didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Want to make her too much like myself because I
didn't want to become too attached to her, And you know,
I was worried if I became too attached to her,
I wouldn't write some of the harder parts to write
for her, as far as like her flaws and coming
to terms with what she needed to do and you know,
(09:10):
actually finding out she's on the wrong side of things.
So I was really careful not to not to make
her too much like myself, just so that I didn't
become attached to her in that regard and then not
do her any favors in the end.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, and I know she joins the book club, and
you also have your own book club, right, tell us
about your club.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I mean, I kind of do. I've tried to start it.
I don't know how many people I have or anything
like that. But through my website, I mostly I have
a couple different.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Pages on my site.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
One is all the books that I mentioned in this
in this book, since it is basically a dedication to
other books. But then I also have a page where
people can follow along with what I'm reading and kind
of what my what my feel on those books are.
I'm not one to really like bash on anything, so
(10:08):
you know, either way, I haven't not enjoyed anything I've
read this year. I've been enjoying it, so I'm not
sure how many people I have going along on the
journey with me, but anybody that wants to come is
welcome become join me on this one, and they can
always reach out to and let me know what they think.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I'm sure it's going to expand because you have a
big audience, you know. I was reading the reviews on Amazon,
and so many people had such great things to say
about this book and how it's really compelled them. How
has it been to see all these positive reviews.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
It's pretty incredible.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And I'm really trying to stay in the moment with
this whole thing and not take any of this for granted,
because you know, I mean, you start out on a
journey like this and you want people to read it,
and you're like, oh, you know, the more people the better,
and you think things like, well, if I could get
on a bestseller list, that would be ideal. But really,
for me, I'm like, if I could just touch one
(11:04):
person's life and maybe make it a little better in
some way, that's what I want. So to see all
of these reviews and to see people liking it, and
I've had people directly message me and tell me what
they think of it, and every single message just means
everything to me, because that's that's what I did this for,
(11:25):
is really that connection and just helping other people feel
seen and helping other people just connect, you know on
some level.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Absolutely, And speaking about helping other people, you know, I
really created this platform to inspire, to uplift and to
really showcase that anything is possible if you have a
dream of vision and determination. So I want to ask you,
how is determination and passion play a part in your
success and even bringing this novel to life? Because you know,
so many people have ideas, amazing ideas, but you know
(11:57):
there's nothing more common than waste and talent people not
having rights to actually put it up there. So how
is that was passing? Determination played a part in your success?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
You know it's been some time now, but it you know,
there was a part earlier on where I had to
reframe how I looked at failure because at that point
in my life, you know, again it was pretty early on,
but I felt like everything in my life at that
point was a failure.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I felt like I was personally a failure and.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
It it just wasn't a good way to be and
it wasn't a good way to live.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And once I kind of started.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Rethinking what was happening, and I started realizing I wasn't
being or I wasn't failing, but I was being redirected.
I was being you know, I was being taught stuff.
And I've learned way more from failure than I've ever
learned from success. And so one of my favorite expressions
(13:02):
is redirection or rejection is redirection, and I'm kind of
lived by that now. And what it did was it
ultimately made me take my determination and my focus and
all of that and turn it inward. So now I
focus on things like doing everything out of like kindness
(13:23):
and spreading spreading that through the world, that's really what
I want to do, and focusing on gratitude to some
of those times there's they're really difficult to be grateful for,
but there are other things that I'm so incredibly grateful
for that are probably viewed from the outside world as
like a failure. But now I'm so grateful that it
(13:45):
didn't work out the way that I thought it was
going to work out, or that I wanted it.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
To work out.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
So really it just was a matter of redirecting what
I was determined to do, or redirecting what my you
know what my focus really was on, and that was
to be the better person that I could be.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I love that. You know that gave me goosebumps because
I believe in synergy and it just happens to be that.
The intro of my show today is all about you know,
when things don't work out as plan, it's because something
betters on the way. And everything that you said was
it just fit in so perfectly to my intro without
you even knowing it, see, and I nicity like that,
(14:25):
that's so yeah, exactly right. Sometimes failure, you know, we
take it to hearts and we think it's you know
that when we fail, we think that's final and that
it's not going to happen. And it's so easy to
internalize that and think that it's done. But you know what,
so often something better comes along. Actually, every single time
you know something that.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Everything it really doeses like.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
There's so many things in my life that I look
back on and I'm like, and I took that really hard,
and yeah, but now I can see the path that
it led me on and I'm I'm just so grateful
for that.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I love that. And Heather, what else is happening for you?
Are you. Can we expect more books in the future.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, So I have a series of short stories that
I'm probably going to republish. They were up on Amazon Novella,
but they took that down, so I'm thinking I'm actually
going to publish those into short stories, and then I
have a few more ideas for books.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
This story, love Letter.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
To Reading, was actually originally a screenplay for a limited series,
which I had already written out, and I'm going to
still be pursuing that as a as a limited series somewhere,
so we'll see where that goes.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
But yeah, that's what's in the works. The books, the.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Books that I have in mind for the future aren't
really in the same like genre, so I'm going to
be trying a few different things.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
You know, I have to ask you, because I believe
in the law of attraction, who would you get to
play a scorpion in a screenplay?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Myself?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Of course I wrote it myself. I wrote it as
as a character that I wanted to play, so yeah,
that would be.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Ideal, you know, yes, absolutely, but yeah, I love that. Heather,
thank you so much for being on the show today.
Congratulations on all your success and keep spreading the message
of kindness and love. I think that's so needed in
the world.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Thank you. I agree and you as well, you do
it too.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
So thank you, thank you so much. The Dear rosso
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