How to Turn Your Advocacy Into a Book that Demands Attention with Meg Stone | Ep. 73

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What if your advocacy work could become the book that shifts the conversation?

Allison talks with Meg Stone about transforming advocacy into authorship that drives real change. Meg shares how she turned decades of violence prevention work into a book that calls out false safety advice and redefines empowerment.

If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your mission into a message that moves readers and gets publishers to pay attention, this is your roadmap.

In this episode, Allison and Meg discuss:

• 04:20 — Why Meg’s first book pitch failed - and why that mattered
• 12:30 — The surprising power of advocacy-based self-defense
• 21:00 — How her agent helped her find the right book to write
• 29:50 — The myth of “playing it safe” and how it limits women
• 44:10 — Meg’s daily visibility habit that actually works

Meg Stone is Executive Director of IMPACT Boston and the debut author of The Cost of Fear: Why Most Safety Advice Is Sexist and How We Can Stop Gender-Based Violence.

Resources Mentioned:

• Meg Stone org: megstone.org
• Impact Boston: impactboston.org
• Meg’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-stone-5a24a970/
• Meg’s Book: https://bookshop.org/a/55773/9780807016220
• Publisher: Beacon Press: https://www.beacon.org/
• Book Reco: The Fall of Roe: The Rise of a New America: https://bookshop.org/a/55773/9781250881397
• Connect with the host: [email protected]
• Book a Call: https://calendly.com/allisonlanelit/chat-allison

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