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409: "I've been blessed by Madonna!" (with Karen Salmansohn)
Season 4, episode 9 is here!
Karen Salmansohn has sold two million books, been blessed by Madonna, and built a career entirely on the principle of doing something a little extra every single time. This one was a lot of fun!
What we covered:
- Why Karen left a senior VP creative director role in her twenties and what she told her parents when they said she was crazy to do it.
- The story of how she got her first novel in front of publishers in a way that got an offer within days of sending it out.
- How she walked up to Madonna in a hotel restaurant, got her to read a book title, and turned…
The skinny
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