Hungry Hearts

Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders - Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others - share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty.

Over the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womxn (and the occasional man) from all walks of life shared their most vulnerable truths in a radical act of love, paving the way for healing in the face of adversity.

Now, off the stage and on the pages of Hungry Hearts, sixteen of these beloved speakers offer moving, inspiring, deeply personal essays as a reminder that we can heal from grief and that divisions can be repaired. Bozoma Saint John opens herself up to love after loss; Cameron Esposito confronts the limits of self-reliance in the wake of divorce; Ashley C. Ford learns to trust herself for the first time. A heartfelt anthology of transformation, self-discovery, and courage that also includes essays by Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Amena Brown, Austin Channing Brown, Natalie Guerrero, Sue Monk Kidd, Connie Lim (MILCK), Nkosingiphile Mabaso, Jillian Mercado, Priya Parker, Geena Rocero, Michael Trotter and Tanya-Blount Trotter of The War and Treaty, and Maysoon Zayid, Hungry Hearts shows how reconnecting with our own burning, undeniable intuition points us toward our unique purpose and the communities where we most belong.

Audiobook Table of Contents:

Introduction by Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, read by the author

Women on the Loose by Sue Monk Kidd, read by Cassandra Campbell 

Reaching for Ambition by Austin Channing Brown, read by Nicole Lewis 

Making Room by Ashley C. Ford, read by Shayna Small 

The Freedom of Me by Tanya Blount-Trotter, read by the author

Period Playlist by Amena Brown, read by the author

On the Horrors of Fitting In by Cameron Esposito, read by the author

The View by Michael Trotter, Jr., read by the author

That Traveling Heat by Connie Lim (MILCK), read by the author

Flying Free by Jillian Mercado, read by Frankie Corzo 

My Funny Valentine by Maysoon Zayid, read by the author

Wake Up, Love by Bozoma Saint John, read by the author

Lucy, Full Of Life by Geena Rocero, read by the author

Choosing Love by Nkosingiphile Mabaso, read by the author

When Sisterhood Ends by Luvvie Ajayi Jones, read by the author

The Wisdom of a Group and the Wisdom of the Self by Priya Parker, read by Soneela Nankani 

On Silence by Natalie Guerrero, read by the author

Epilogue by Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, read by the author

About the Contributors read by Frankie Corzo