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In this episode I am talking with Ann Imig, the founder of the nationwide storytelling series and book LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER. A decade later LTYM continues Giving Motherhood A Microphone on stages all over the country (60 cities to date, and counting!). 

"In 2010 Ann decided Mother's Day was lacking; instead of being solely a retail-driven holiday, the focus should be family.  By brining our community together to share personal stories abut our mothers, we could get back to the core of why mothering is important. That year she organized a live reading, and so "Listen To Your Mother" was born.

Like the live readings, the anthology Listen To Your Mother is a brutally honest look at modern motherhood.  It showcases the experiences of ordinary people of different races, genders, and ages and takes readers on a journey through mother in all of its complexity, diversity and humor. 

...the contributors' stories share their experiences with adoption, assimilation, and emptying nests; first-time motherhood, foster parenting, and infertility; LGBTQ parenting, special needs parenting, and surrogacy; step-mothering, never mothering, and mothering through illness.

Whether you are one, have one, or know one, Listen To Your Mother is an emotional whirlwind that is guaranteed to entertain, amuse, and enlighten."

- Listen To Your Mother, What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now, edited by Ann Imig

Ann is an also an award-winning writer, speaker, and performer who spends most of her time signing permission slips and sweeping up cat litter.

www.annimig.com

Listen To Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We're Saying Now, edited by Ann Imig