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Ask Me Anything about The Marriage Sabbatical Apr 18, 2025

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All Spoilers! Lian Dolan takes question about her book, The Marriage Sabbatical now out in paperback. Read the book first and then go deep on the who, what and why's of this USA Today Bestseller and People Magazine Pick of the Week. Lian answers reader questions, maybe even yours.

To buy The Marriage Sabbatical, head to your favorite indie bookstore or find it everywhere, including here.

To find out more about Lian Dolan, her book tour or booking her for your book club, visit her website here.

To listen to the Satellite Sisters episode about Santa Fe and find notes about traveling to the City Different, click here.

Lian Dolan's books: For information on Lian's novels, including Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding, her new novel coming out May 2025, visit her website.

To see Lian's tour dates, including her appearance at the LA Times Festival of Books on April 27, 2025, visit her events page here.

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Pub Week Classic with Santa Fe Travel Tips, Icon Sighting, Easy Summer Meals Apr 16, 2025

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A Classic Episode with Travel! Summer Cooking! How about a Satellite Sisters Weekend in Santa Fe? To celebrate the paperback release of The Marriage Sabbatical, we time travel back to June 2022 for Lian's research trip to the city of Santa Fe. Lian heads to New Mexico for book research and comes back with all kind of tips, raves and reviews for The City Different. Plus, ICON SIGHTING! Restaurants, Art Galleries, Shopping, Sightseeing.

Plus, Julie has the scoop of staying aware of flight cancellations. And our usual Satellite Sisters recommendations on books, TV and more entertaining options. Julie Loved Vacationland from our Best Beach Bag Books List. And the Alex Rider series on Amazon Prime from the bestselling series of books

Want to head to Santa Fe? Read Lian Dolan's Complete Travel Guide for Santa Fe here for all the links. Listen to out Santa Fe Travel special here. And Lian's book talk podcast about The Marriage Sabbatical here.

For more information on Lian Dolan and her books, please visit her website. To see her events schedule for Spring/Summer of 2025, please visit this page. And to pre-order Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding, please visit her publisher page.

Plus, Claire Tansey joins us for easy summer cooking, BBQ ideas and her surefire pasta salad. Check out her great cookbook, Dinner: Uncomplicated. Plus, new recipe videos on my YouTube channel every week all summer! And her website.

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The Marriage Sabbatical by Lian Dolan out in Paperback Apr 15, 2025

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No Spoilers! Welcome to the publication day special for The Marriage Sabbatical, a new book by Lian Dolan from William Morrow. Out in paperback today on 041525. This episode aired originally in April 2024.

On this episode, Liz Dolan and Julie Dolan talk to Lian Dolan about the inspiration behind her latest novel, an adventurous story of one Gen X couple who hit midlife and need a vacation from their lives, their marriage and each other. Wife Nicole heads to Santa Fe to study silversmithing. Husband Jason opts for a motorcycle trip through Patagonia. What will happen when the sabbatical ends?

We discuss process, writing habits, inspiration, storytelling and what if everyone thinks this is about Lian's marriage. Plus, take a look behind the planning of a book tour. (Hint-- not as glam as Sex & The City makes it seem.)

To buy The Marriage Sabbatical, head to your favorite indie bookstore or find it everywhere, including here.

To find out more about Lian Dolan, her book tour or booking her for your book club, visit her website here.

To listen to the Satellite Sisters episode about Santa Fe and find notes about traveling to the City Different, click here.

Lian Dolan's books: For information on Lian's novels, including Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding, her new novel coming out May 2025, visit her website.

To see Lian's tour dates, including her appearance at the LA Times Festival of Books on April 27, 2025, visit her events page here.

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Classic Satellite Sisters Anniversary Special to celebrate 25 Years Apr 01, 2025

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In Honor of the 25th anniversary of Satellite Sisters, a classic show from our 20th anniversary.

Our LIVE 20th Anniversary Special features all five Dolan sisters - Julie, Liz, Sheila, Monica and Lian - in a one-time-only Zoom party with Sixth & I in Washington DC. The sisters share their history, laugh about the things they got right and wrong over the years and play a game of Satellite Sisters Trivia with listener Nancy Cowan of Shrewsbury, Mass. PLUS the Lab Rats return! Sheila and Monica do some product testing and share the results on camera. Finally, we introduce some our loyal team members over the years - Corny Koehl, John Ramos, Sarah Sweeney, Emily Loudermilk and Sergio Enriquez - and Julie gives heartfelt thank-yous to all the loyal sisters and misters who have listened over all these years.

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SPECIAL: Colon Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and Lessons Learned Mar 31, 2025

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March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month! For today's episode., we revisist Lian's story of being diagnosed with colon cancer after a routine colonoscopy and how that early screening may have prevented a much more serious outcome.

It's also the story of how being pestered by her friend Karah to get that screening may have saved her life. Satellite Sisters and Misters, this is what we do for each other. You have our permission to pester!

We also bring listeners up to date as of today in terms of Lian's health. Four years after diagnosis and treatment, Lian talks about what it means to be a survivor and the lessons she learned about cancer as a patient that could be helpful to anyone going through cancer themselves. Or caregivers.

Please share this show with your own Satellite Sisters and Misters.

Original Post Date: November 2019 and Updated March 2024

Here are the new guidelines for testing.

For support for patients and families, here are some resources.

American Cancer Society

Colon Cancer Coalition

Colorectal Cancer Alliance

Lian Dolan's books: For information on Lian's novels, including The Marriage Sabbatical, her latest book that comes out April 2, 2024, please visit liandolan.com

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Blast from the Past Classic with Cozy Couch, Believe it or Not Mar 28, 2025

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This is a classic from September 2008. Sheila, Monica, Julie and Lian are back from summer ration to catch up and discuss Sheila's Summer of Love. Plus,is lowering teh drinking age a good idea? Also, Cozy Couch and Believe it or not.

To pre-order a signed copy of Lian Dolan's new book Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding, click here. Don't forget to request from your library as well. To see Lian's tour schedule as of now, please click here.

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Spring Catch Up with Lian Dolan and Liz Dolan Mar 25, 2025

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Liz and Lian catch up over Spring Break. Liz outlines her Med-Spa Vacation strategy. And Lian haslots of details about her new book and book tour schedule. Plus, Entertaining Sisters recs for The Residence on Netflix and Lian's Spring Pick Book Recommendations at this link:

https://bookshop.org/lists/satellite-sisters-spring-2025-recommendations

Happy 5th Birthday to The Sweeney Sisters.

If you are a Kindle Reader or an Audible user, good deals happening now.

The paperback of The Marriage Sabbatical is out April 15. Join Lian at the

LA Times Festival of Books to celebrate. She'll be signing at Booth #34 sunday, April 27th. Noon to 2

RSVP to Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding out on May 20th but available now. Find details on dates and pre-orders here"

https://www.liandolan.com/events/

Pre-Order Signed copy from Vroman's here

Book tour starts on May 20 in Pasadena

and then...

Santa Monica

Carmel, Indiana

Spring Lake New Jersey

Newport Rhode Island

Mystic CT

Darien CT

Montecito, CA

Newport Beach, CA

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Blast from the Past Episode with Huge Business Idea and Believe It or Not Mar 19, 2025

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It's a Satellite Sisters Blast from June 2008. Lian Dolan, Liz Dolan and Monica Dolan with engineer Kia Rene.

Lian is drowning in forms and has a business idea to give away
Monica reports on Mindless Eating
Liz on the latest email scams
Monica's Believe it or not
Ask the sisters. Questions from the blog
Monica recommends a book, Home by Julie Andrews

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SS062315: Poldark Re-Cap, Save The Gap, Health Tips to Live to 100 Mar 13, 2025

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Health Week Classic from June 2015. Julie Dolan and Lian Dolan connect for the Satellite Sisters Tuesday Podcast.

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On today's show, the sisters take on the new PBS Masterpiece series, Poldark. Looking for something to watch after Outlander and before the new season of Downton Abbey? Check out Poldark on PBS starring Aiden Turner and his linen shirts. Lots of horses, lots of dogs, lots of craggy cliffs and some really, really bad British teeth. Also on the show: Presidential Motorcade in Pasadena, thanks to Marc Maron who hosted the President Obama in a nearby garage. Lian gives you the details and talks about her new role as Podcasting Spokesperson Save The Gap Let's start with getting rid of the ugly clothes. Booth Moore of the LA Times with her analysis of what went wrong at the Gap. Health Tips to Live to 100. Check out The Blue Zone Solution by Dan Beuttner. Stick with green veggies, beans, coffee &Tea and no meat. Civility in the Workplace- what it pays off No Shampoo Update Julie jumps on the bandwagon and reveals her surprising results Julie's Surprise Weekend See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Health Week Classic: Fitness, Aging and Healthy Mindset with Expert Liz Neporent Mar 12, 2025

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health Week Rebroadcast of a special episode with our longtime fitness expert Liz Neporent, a health and fitness writer and author of Fitness for Dummies and The Runner’s Brain. Liz answers questions from Lian Dolan and Liz Dolan about setting new health and fitness goals as we age, plus questions from listeners. She also lays out goals and guidance on creating a positive mindset, cardio, balance, flexibility and nutrition. The Satellite Sisters also discuss the power of being part of a community when it comes to attaining health goals.

Originally broadcast in March 2024

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