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It's Personal Podcast
EP. 110 Tracy Badua on motherhood, Cali and first book!
4 Plays
2 years agoTracy Badua is a Filipino American author of books about young people with sunny hearts in a sometimes stormy world. According to her grandmother, Tracy inherited this love of the written word from her great-grandfather, a school teacher in the Philippines. To Tracy, this means writing is in her blood, and she continues this family tradition by telling stories with her own spin in an accessible, heartfelt way.
By day, she is an attorney who works in national housing policy and programs, and by night, she squeezes in writing, family and pup time, and bites of her secret stash of candy. School and work brought her from California to Washington, DC, and back, and she now lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, family, and photogenic Maltese.
On the podcast Tracy talks about motherhood, writing as an attorney vs middle grade, story building, and her first book (Freddie vs the Family Curse)
Website: https://tracybadua.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tracybaduawrites/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tracybwrites
Buy Freddie vs The Family Curse: https://tracybadua.com/books/
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