Janice Dean

Hey, welcome to 7-Minute Books.

I'm Sam, and today we're talking about I Am the Storm by Janice Dean.

Sophie, this one hit me harder than I expected, and I want to know what you made of it.

Hey there, Sam.

Yeah, same here.

Janice Dean is the Fox News meteorologist, and this is her memoir about resilience.

The hook is that she spends her career tracking hurricanes, and then life sends her a storm that no radar could have picked up.

Right, and that's the thing that grabbed me.

We are also preparing for tomorrow, which is the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

And joining us now to start the show is Janice Dean, our first ever guest, actually, we ever had on the Grace Curley Show.

It was a shot in the dark.

I reached out to her on Twitter.

Absolutely.

And again, I wanna remind people, please go read.

I put it today in my recommended reading on the website, but you can also just go to Substack @janice dean.

Read this in honor of the 343 firefighters we lost, the thousands of people that we lost, and read this because Janice's husband, Sean, worked at Engine 40, Ladder 35 on the Upper West Side.

Let me add to our recommendations real quick.

Janice Dean at Her Substack wrote about her husband, Sean, who is a 9-11 survivor, carries survivor's guilt.

He was a New York firefighter on that day doing the hard work.

And so she wrote about him at Her Substack, Janice Dean.

And then also the...

ESPN 30 for 30 short on Wells Crowther, who was a Boston university lacrosse player turned equities guy who saved like almost 20 people that day.