Audible Launch Day!

Here we go...

My friends:

It's launch day! After sharing with you last week about the experience of recording this memoir (and everyone’s favorite sound engineer Mike), I can finally tell you that You Will Not Recognize Your Life is now available exclusively on Audible.

This book is for you if:

• You've ever felt like everyone else got the instruction manual for being a "real adult" except you

• You love (and hate) the makeover montage in every early-2000’s romantic comedy

• You lived through the era of The Rules, The Game, and other problematic dating advice

• You appreciate stories that balance honesty with humor

(BTW, it’s rated R for language, smoking, sexual content, and some questionable decisions.)

This project represents exactly what I love about storytelling - the chance to experiment with a new form, to get a little messy, to stretch myself and get vulnerable while still cracking jokes. I'm excited and a little nervous to share this whole… sparkly situation with you.

You can listen here. And if you enjoy it, I'd be so grateful if you'd leave a review - it really helps other listeners find the book!

By the way, if you’d like the transcript instead for accessibility reasons, please hit reply and let me know! I’ll get you set up.

And finally — since this is just in audio, there’s no acknowledgments page! So I want to thank some amazing friends and colleagues who made this whole thing happen, by listening to early drafts, doing expert and empathetic story editing, or kindly and firmly talking me through self-doubt:

My whole family; the team at Audible— especially (endlessly patient) Rachel Smalter Hall and Rachel Hamburg; Nora Saks; Samuel James; Sarah Wyman; EB Landesberg; Vanessa Zoltan; Laura Boach; Clark Tate; David Malbin; David Crabb; Jess Lacher; Amy Shearn; Hilary North-Elisante; Laura Joyce Davis; Megan Tan; Gina Voskov; Catherine McCarthy; and my whole wonderful “social drafting” team, a group of brilliant colleagues, friends and former students who let me tell them stories while I wrote!

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

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I’m an award-winning storyteller and educator, and I offer coaching, workshops & keynotes about storytelling and voice. Want to work with me? Find out how at micaelablei.com!