Today we hear from Shalene Gupta whose new book, THE CYCLE: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD, was released in February. Shalene and I will be talking about the ways authors can get past their fear of conducting interviews when writing about deeply personal material. Watch a recording here. The audio/video version is available for one week. Missed it? Check out the podcast version above or on your favorite podcast platform. To find Gupta’s debut and many other books by our authors, visit our Bookshop page.  Looking for a writing community? Join our Facebook page.  Shalene Gupta is a reporter whose work has appeared in Fortune, The Atlantic, ESPN, Fast Company, and Harvard Business Review. She is the coauthor of The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It with Harvard Business School professor Sandra Sucher.  In 2022, she was identified as a thinker to watch out for and made the Thinkers50 Radar list. She’s also the host of the Trustonomy podcast. She has an MS from Columbia Journalism School and is a graduate of GrubStreet’s Novel Incubator program. Shalene has taught writing classes in the Boston area, and speaks regularly at conferences about trust and diversity issues. Photo by Andrea Cassani on Unsplash This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 7amnovelist.substack.com