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Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.
This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.
If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.”

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Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 38: Randy Peyser on Staying in the Flow & Getting Your Book Deal

September 18, 2026 • Rich Wright • Season 2 • Episode 38

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Randy Peyser has spent nearly 30 years opening doors for writers, landing book deals with major New York publishers through relationships built on a first-name basis. As the founder of Author One Stop, an author, speaker of 500+ talks, and a lifelong creative across music, art, and the written word, she brings a rare blend of publishing-industry insight and soul-level wisdom to this conversation with Rich Wright.

Randy traces her path from a hypersensitive, perfectionist child writing spelling words like "conflagration" in second grade, through a psychology degree and years of low-paid recreation work with disabled children and seniors, into the New Age magazine world of 1990s San Francisco, and finally into her calling as a book coach, ghostwriter, and proposal writer who gets authors published.

At the heart of the conversation is her philosophy of staying in the flow: following the question "What's the most loving thing I can do for me right now?" through a dark night of the soul, and trusting that unexpected opportunities often carry more than the thing you were chasing. Her first book, Crappy to Happy: Small Steps to Big Happiness Now, was famously featured in the film Eat, Pray, Love, held up by Julia Roberts on screen without Randy knowing in advance.

WHAT WE COVER:
~Why every creative project "births self" and how to give yourself permission to experiment without self-censorship
~Growing up in a Holocaust survivor family and the resilience passed down through generations
~How working for embezzlers led to her one-woman show and her first traditional book deal
~The "Author Seeks Publisher" freeway sign stunt that changed everything
~WAIT training: why delays mean lessons still to learn or people still to line up
~How to "pitch like a five-year-old" with a clear, visual ask and no compromise on your value
~Linear vs. process-oriented creators and why goal-planning isn't for everyone
~Interviewing legends like Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Carolyn Myss, and Bernie Siegel
~Getting past the gatekeepers to the genuinely warm humans behind the fame
~Vulnerability as the strongest place of strength, and visitations from beyond the veil
~Her newest book, Bald Courage: Gentle Wisdom on the Cancer ~Journey, and the sponsorship mission to gift it to chemo patients

Rich and Randy also share honest, moving reflections on grief, forgiveness, sensitivity as a gift rather than a weakness, and the cycles of death and rebirth every creative moves through. As Randy puts it: "Sorrow digs the well and joy fills it."

Connect with Randy:
Website: https://authoronestop.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randypeyserbookeditor

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