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On this episode of The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes international author Pia de Jong. Pia de Jong is a prize-winning literary novelist and newspaper columnist who moved with her family to the U.S. (for her husband’s work position) from Amsterdam in 2012. Pia de Jong debuted in 2008 with the novelLange Dagen, for which she received the Gouden Uil Prijs van de Lezer [Readers’ Golden Owl Prize]. Her second novelDieptevrees was published in 2010. In 2012 she emigrated with her husband, scientist Robbert Dijkgraaf, and their three teenage children to the United States. The columns she wrote about the US for NRC Handelsblad were recently compiled under the title Flessenpost. Pia de Jong is published by Prometheus. Her memoir, about surviving her newborn daughter’s congenital myeloid leukemia diagnosis, was recently published SAVING CHARLOTTE: A MOTHER AND THE POWER OF INTUITION (W. W. Norton & Company). Segment 1: -We don’t need anything external to be happy. Happiness is within. You’re not happy