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Gold for Memoir!

Excited and honored for Tania and me to win gold in the Nonfiction/Memoir category in the 31st Annual Northern California Publishers and Authors Awards!

The award is for Tania's latest memoir, I WILL BE THE WOMAN HE LOVED, on which I was co-author and publisher. Congrats to all the winners!

A refugee and an immigrant.
One of tech’s first women CEOs.
Overcoming adversity helped define her.
Now she must define herself yet again.

Amazon: https://bit.ly/491EUtk Bookshop: https://bit.ly/4fHhThk

The holidays can be “the most wonderful time of the year.”

They can also be a stressful time to just try to get through.

Join me for a free series of three 30-minute workshops to help you make the most of the holidays with enhanced calm, clarity, and energy.

Breathwork

Learn how to breathe correctly (many of us don’t!), why it matters, and how to use your breath to manage holiday stress.

Nervous System Regulation

Understand nervous system basics and explore simple exercises to keep your cool when dealing with holiday stressors.

Resilience

Discover why resilience is much more than just “bouncing back,” and learn how to keep your inner battery charged, no matter what challenges the holidays throw your way.

Do one! Do all three! Leave each with greater awareness and specific tools and techniques to help you not merely survive but thrive during the upcoming holiday season!

More and to register: lifecoachmatthew.com/events

This Sunday, 7/27!

Excited to join the lineup of the upcoming edition of Frances Stroh's much beloved Stranger Than Fiction Reading Series!

Join me and five other literary voices reading new/unpublished work within the hallowed walls of the legendary Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe in North Beach, where the ghosts of the Beat writers will sit among us!

Always a great event - hope to see you there!

Lots more to talk about...

Isabel and I had so much fun in our first conversation, she's asked me to take to the stage with her again! Join us Wednesday, June 25 at 7:00 at San Francisco's Jewish Community Center in celebration of her latest bestseller, My Name is Emilia del Valle, which Entertainment Weekly called "riveting."

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✍️ Join us May 10!

I could hardly be more excited or honored to be in conversation with Isabel Allende, in partnership with Book Passage and Dominican University of California's Institute for Leadership Studies! Join us in celebration of Isabel's forthcoming MY NAME IS EMILIA DEL VALLE, which Harper's Bazaar calls "another spellbinding narrative."

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Up next for Tania's new memoir, I WILL BE THE WOMAN HE LOVED - which I co-authored and published - we're thrilled to be hosted by Napa Bookmine, 3:00 on Sunday, February 2!

Tania and I will be in conversation, and she'll do a reading or two and take questions.

Napa Bookmine would love for you to RSVP if you can make it - and we hope you can!

Can't make it to Napa? Join us at the 222 in Healdsburg 2/8 at 6:00!

Excited to kick off the second installment of Writers' Night Out, a new monthly prose reading series in Fairfax, featuring one presenter followed by open-mic readings.

If you're in Marin or looking for an excuse to be, join us on Tuesday, December 10 from 6:00 - 8:00 at Mac's on Broadway!

Writers’ Night Out happens every second Tuesday. Sign-up for five-minute reading slots starts at 5:30.

Over the past year or so, I've had the honor of helping bring to fruition Tania Romanov's "first" book—which she started years ago, but had never finished. Until now.

There have been many laughs, tears, and surprises as we dove deeper into her story, from her childhood as an ostracized immigrant; to the challenges of her trailblazing career as not only one of the first women CEOs in tech, but a young one at that; to her love story with and the passing of her soulmate, Harold; to her two-week walk along England's Thames Path, where she tries to figure out what's next.

What's next for us is a launch party!

Saturday, 11/23 at 2PM at Sausalito Books by the Bay

We hope you can join us!

Join us November 9 - 10 in Tomales Bay!

The first and second editions of our daylong Sonoma writers retreat, The Body and The Pen, was an absolute joy. As such, Britta and I are doing it again! This time, though, we’re expanding to two days and one night—and moving to Tomales Bay!

More and to register 👉 here.

Hope to see you there!

SECOND Session Now Open!

Same day of the week. Same time. Different dates.

Since the first session of my CREATIVITY BOOK GROUP sold out shortly after being announced (thank you!), Book Passage has invited me to hold a second session for people on the waiting list and others who might be interested.

Join us online from 5:00 - 6:30 for four Thursdays starting September 12 for conversation sure to inspire and get your creative juices flowing!

Register here.