Children’s Book Author Franklin The Helper 📒🐝 on: opening your own bookstore 📚 finding meaning & purpose 🌞 who? us? authors? 😱 (49)

Co-Host: Franklin The Helper (@franklinthehelper) / Host: Xinyi Xan (@xinyixan) (Dallas - Sat 9/23) 💚 2 Year Birthday Party & Book Launch of How to Talk to Anyone for Introverts 📗 BONUS free eBook: How to Talk to Anyone for Introverts 👋🏼  Say Hi @dontbestrangers ✕ 💬 Chat on Our Discord Life Coaching Services, email 💌 [email protected] Welcome back to Don’t Be Strangers, a podcast and community against adult loneliness. Our mission is to create deeper conversations by providing resources, events, and community for the curious student-of-life. I’m your host XinYi, and I typically meet my co-hosts for the very first time while recording! If this sounds fun to you, please consider applying to co-host a future episode. Today I’m speaking with Franklin, who is a children’s book author and the owner of his very own bookstore called Franklin The Helper! We met because back in the spring, I was at a mixer event hosted by Dallas Book Tribe (which, I have to add an aside that I typically don’t like networking events but I was out there to support my girls at Dallas Book Tribe because they’ve shown so much love to the Don’t Be Strangers community and we regularly partner on Women’s Hikes out here in Dallas that I made an exception.) There, I was sharing my newly published book How to Talk to Anyone for Introverts, and his mom came up to introduce herself and told me about the bookstore her and her son had recently just opened! She invited me to do a book launch and signing at the store and I thought… why not? So from there, Franklin, his mom, and I have been preparing for this event for this Saturday 9/23. Franklin and I haven’t interacted much besides a few email exchanges, and I thought a podcast episode with him would be a great way to cross-promote his store and my book launch so… here we are. I had a blast chatting with Franklin because I didn’t know what to expect but ended up finding so many parallels in our stories. You’re about to see as we dive into: our advice for readers struggling with finding meaning and purpose Franklin’s relationship with books growing up how he pulled the trigger and actually wrote his first children’s book how we both never imagined ourselves as authors Franklin’s definition of fun With that, please meet Franklin!