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#23 - You Know You've Hit Your Passion When You Hear Castanets — Lynn Dannheisser on 40 Years of Law, Corruption & the Novel It Became

#23 - You Know You've Hit Your Passion When You Hear Castanets — Lynn Dannheisser on 40 Years of Law, Corruption & the Novel It Became

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#23 - You Know You've Hit Your Passion When You Hear Castanets — Lynn Dannheisser on 40 Years of Law, Corruption & the Novel It Became
Everyday Conversations with Amin Mombani
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Forty years inside the machinery of government gave her afront-row seat to exactly how corruption happens. So she wrote a novel about it.

 

In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits downwith Lynn Dannheisser — a retired attorney of 40 years, 30 of them as a city attorney — to talk about her debut thriller Where Nobody Knows Her Name, the real moments that inspired it, and why she believes there's life after practicing law.

 

🎙️ In this episode:

- Being one of the first three women at the largest privatelaw firm in Florida

- What it's actually like sitting as the "guardrail" against corruption inside city government

- The real detail from the Florida Keys that planted the seed for a novel about money laundering, gun trafficking, and murder

- Why she says writing fiction gave her access to a compassion the law never had room for

- Her next book, about a hoarder's widow who finds 14 million dollars hidden in the house

- The moment she knew she'd found her real passion — and how you'll know when you find yours

 

💬 "You know you've hit your passion when you hear castanets." — Lynn

💬 "Writing is an obsession. It's an addiction." — Lynn

💬 "It's everyday conversations, but it requires everyday courage to have those conversationstoo." — Amin

 

⏱️ Timestamps:

00:11 Cold open

01:51 Who is Lynn, really?

04:01 40 years watching how power actually works

06:53 The real moment that planted the novel's seed

09:17 Where passion and compassion pulled in differentdirections

11:30 Where Nobody Knows Her Name — the story behind thetitle

12:58 Bonita Key as "an unspoken character"

14:35 The lawyer vs. the novelist

17:52 Her favorite character she's ever written

20:09 Writing from real people — and what her sister thought

28:09 The Renaissance Woman — which identity talks to theothers

30:31 You know you've hit your passion when you hearcastanets

33:39 Her advice for anyone who wants to write but hasn'tstarted

36:14 Wildcard: the whipped cream container disaster

 

Contact Details for Guest — Lynn Dannheisser

Website: lynnmdannheisserauthor.com

Email: [email protected]

Book: Where Nobody Knows Her Name — available on Amazon,Kobo Books, Apple Books, and anywhere books are sold

Threads and Instagram: @lynnmdannheisserauthor (samegoes on Facebook and LinkedIn)

 

Contact Details for Host

Amin Mombani - Host

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://aminmombani.podview.com

Youtube Link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoXPESGBAlhpbeWg_E7Hrw

Spotify Link:https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZ

Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-conversations-with-amin-mombani/id6782858287

CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id7284639?country=us

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amin-mombani-29979721/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592072735008

 

🎧 Also available onSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZ

 

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