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Kylee Marshall is an author, speaker, and former teacher at Bookcliff Middle School. Her memoir, Of Dirt and Wildflowers -- A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom, was published in June and her brick-and-mortar workshop space, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Creative Space to Grow & Bloom, is launching this fall at the Historic Lowell School Building in downtown Grand Junction. She joins Will to discuss dropping your kid off at college, how much teachers get paid, why being a writer blows, the awkwardness of recording audio books, how being a perfectionist can hold you back, how technology makes it hard to say no, what to do when hard work backfires, being an "ant," Covid relationships, how different seasons of life impact our perception of time, how to view the morning as an "unopened gift," letting go of guilt and shame, Will and Kylee's ghost stories, celebrity authors, how to read more, drinking and writing, why many famous authors died young, how to be authentic, and more. https://www.instagram.com/kyleemarshallauthor/