Hi, Barbara – thank you for joining us, today. So excited to interview you and get more information about Listen to Your Mother – a show which will reach 32 cities this year.

Q: Tell me a little about LTYM.

Listen To Your Mother is the brainchild of writer Ann Imig, a writer and blogger.  She had only been blogging for six months when she attended BlogHer, the national conference for women who write online, in the summer of 2009. While there, the self-proclaimed “Stay at Home Humorist” and mother of two young sons sat in on the “Voices of the Year” keynote, where bloggers read aloud from their award-winning posts.  She was profoundly moved by the powerful stories these female writers were sharing.

In May 2010, she brought a dozen local female writers to the stage at the Barrymore Theatre in her hometown, Madison, Wisconsin for the first Listen to Your Mother show. Over the last five years, it’s grown into a nationwide phenomenon! In 2014, 32 cities nationwide will have live Listen to Your Mother readings, giving motherhood a microphone, all in celebration of Mother’s Day. […]