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This episode features our conversation with Crystal Senter-Brown, which was live-streamed on December 14, 2024.

Crystal Senter-Brown's life's purpose can be summed up in one sentence: Empowering Women and Children. And Crystal lives her purpose every single day, whether it is by publishing books that teach children the importance of being kind to others, leading writing workshops in the community, speaking at local schools or leading the career center at Bay Path University. She has authored 12 books to date and is currently working on her 13th. One of her novels ("The Rhythm in Blue") was turned into a feature film and won several awards at film festivals around the world. Crystal is the recipient of the BusinessWest Difference Maker Award for her work empowering and inspiring women and young girls. She is certified as a Gallup strengths career coach, and recently began her work to earn her doctorate in Education. Married to the love of her life for almost 25 years, she is also a mother and dog mom.

During this episode, Crystal shared excerpts from her second poetry collection, But She Has Such a Pretty Face (2014). Here’s what Crystal offers about But She Has Such a Pretty Face: "Every time someone would say to me: "But you have such a pretty face" I would cringe and think: But what about the Rest of me? "But you have such a pretty face" tells my story through a series of 43 poems. I wrote about my childhood in Morristown, Tn (Home, Ella's tambourine, That Time When my Brother Jerome was Evel Kneivel), marriage (Before dawn, Loving outloud), love (Lucky Jeans, Flirt) motherhood (for Aj at Seventeen, First Bath), relationships (Twenty-first morning, Monsters in the Closet), family (Welcome Home, The Droopy-Boob Haiku), the importance of fatherhood (The Luckiest Girl on Earth, Disposable Daddy, When everything was new) to learning to love my body at Every size (Chunk, Beautiful Me). I hope that no matter who you are, you'll find a few poems you can relate to. Whether you are a mother, wife, father, sister, poet, college student, mess-talker, best friend or just a girl with more than a pretty face, I hope you enjoy the read!"

To learn more about Crystal and her expansive body of work, please visit crystalsenterbrown.com.


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