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Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

By: Kate Hanley
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Finding the Throughline: Conversations about the Creative Process invites you into the minds of writers and other creatives as they open up about their process, their doubts, and what kinds of changes they’re thinking about making. The questions are mildly invasive, honestly, and the answers are unvarnished…and so refreshing! Whether your creative work is writing, painting, making music, parenting, or simply living, Finding the Throughline can help you get—and stay—inspired. Invigorated, even. For detailed show notes on each interview, visit katehanley.substack.com. And if you’d like to hear these interviews in one ad-free episode (as opposed to broken up into three shorter episodes with a few ads sprinkled in to keep the lights on), become a paid subscriber once you’re there. .Copyright MsMindbody, LLC 2026 Personal Development Personal Success
Episodes
  • [Deesha Philyaw: What’s coming up]: Giving yourself the support you need to take bigger swings with your work Ep 1292

    [Deesha Philyaw: What’s coming up]: Giving yourself the support you need to take bigger swings with your work Ep 1292
    16 Oct 2026
    In part three of my interview with Deesha Philyaw–author of the brand-new novel “Confessions of First Lady Freeman,” and the National Book Award-finally story collection “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”--we talk about what’s getting her creative juices flowing, the shifts she’s making as she starts writing her most ambitious work yet, and the shows, writers, and songs that are keeping her inspired.We covered:- The upcoming debut novels by other authors that are blowing her mind and inspiring her to take more risks in her writing- The Black women directors and show runners she admires- Why the novel she’s currently writing is “the most ambitious book I’ve ever written”- The changes she’s making in order to be able to keep writing her next novel while she’s out on tour for her “First Lady Freeman”- Why she’s looking to move abroad in the next few years- The series she just finished watching that she calls “22 episodes of WTF??”- Her love-hate relationship with matchaFor full show notes with links to everything we discuss visit katehanley.substack.com.Thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    19 min
  • [Deesha Philyaw, inner stuff]: The formula for caring less about other people’s reactions to your work Ep 1291

    [Deesha Philyaw, inner stuff]: The formula for caring less about other people’s reactions to your work Ep 1291
    14 Oct 2026
    In the second part of our conversation, Deesha Philyaw, whose hot off-the-presses novel “The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman” is a funny, juicy, sexy, and delicious peak behind the pulpit of a black megachurch, shares her insights on the beliefs, fears, and concerns she’s had to re-write, including:- Why she stopped focusing on getting published- The editing trick she swears by–although she absolutely hates doing it- How she reminds herself that not everybody needs to like what she writes- What she learned from seeing her stories about Southern, Black church ladies be warmly received by people outside that demographic- Getting past the evangelical teaching that says everything you write has to be for the glory of God- Caring less and less about other people’s reactions to her writing- Getting bolder with age- The self-help book she calls “so healing and so freeing” and the spiritual readings that have helped her feel more supportedFor full show notes with links to everything we discuss visit katehanley.substack.com.Thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    24 min
  • [Deesha Philyaw, practical matters]: Making the leap from writing as a hobby, to a way to pay the bills, to a major career Ep 1290

    [Deesha Philyaw, practical matters]: Making the leap from writing as a hobby, to a way to pay the bills, to a major career Ep 1290
    12 Oct 2026
    This week my guest is Deesha Philyaw, who has been called “a bonafide literary treasure” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.Deesha's short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was a 2020 National Book Award finalist, a Penn Faulkner Award for Fiction winner, and an LA Times Book Prize winner.Now, her highly anticipated novel, “The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman,” has just come out. It follows Sharice Freeman, wife of the pastor of one of the largest black megachurches in America, as her hopes of winning the First Lady USA pageant are threatened when secrets from her previous life are revealed.In this lively conversation where we dug into her creative path and process, we covered:- Growing up in the evangelical church- Doing all the “right” things and still being unhappy- Starting writing as a hobby, then getting serious about making money as a writer post-divorce- How she first started writing her brand-new novel over twenty years ago- Her forthright–and funny–motivation for continuing to write- Meeting her agent via a neighborhood potluck- Why writers need to leave the house- The $200 she and her writer friends kept loaning to each other when they were all trying to make ends meet- How she went from a $5000 advance for her first book to a seven-figure two-book deal- The financial realities of a seven-figure deal- Her hard-won time-management strategies- The gadget that prevents her from losing precious hours to social mediaFor full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.Thank you for listening! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    23 min
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