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Ep. 402: How Stunt Memoirs Can Change the World with Eve O. Schaub
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Live a whole year trash-free? Oh, yeah. Eve O. Schaub and Rachael take on changing the world, one memoir at a time. Eve is chock full of incredible advice for both writing and living - don’t miss this one!
Eve O. Schaub is an internationally published author and humorist. The author of Year of No Sugar (2014) and Year of No Clutter (2017); her forthcoming third family memoir is Year of No Garbage (April 22 Earth Day, 2023). She has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show, Fox & Friends, USA Today, and The Huffington Post among others. Her essay “Our Year of No Sugar: One Family’s Grand Adventure” for Everyday Health has been viewed over a million times. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Hebrew and Spanish, and her writing has additionally appeared in Newsweek, the Boston Globe, Hyperallergic, Bustle, The Belladonna Comedy, Vermont Magazine and Vermont Life. She holds a BA and BFA from Cornell University, and an MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Eve lives with her family in Vermont and enjoys performing experiments on them so she can write about it.
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