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March 9th, 2026

Episode 107: Holly Gleason

  1. Episode 107: Holly Gleason Daniel Paisner 1:06:57

Award-winning music journalist, critic and artist development consultant Holly Gleason returns to the podcast for a solo outing to discuss her eclectic and electric career as one of the music industry’s leading voices. Over the years, she has written for Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Playboy, Spin, and the Miami Herald.

Holly’s most recent collaboration, the #1 New York Times best-selling memoir Heart Life Music, written with country music superstar Kenny Chesney, has helped to cement Holly’s reputation as an in-demand ghostwriter who pushes her subjects to reflect on life, music, and the vagaries of fame.

She is the co-author of the best-selling, story-laden cookbook Y’all Eat Yet?: Welcome to the Pretty B*tchin’ Kitchen, with Miranda Lambert, and editor of the acclaimed compilations Prine on Prine: Interviews and Encounters with John Prine, and Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music changed Our Lives.

The recipient of the 2023 LA Press Club’s Entertainment Journalist of the Year and 2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism’s Independent Journalist awards, Holly lives and works in Nashville, Tenn., where she occasionally writes lyrics (as “Lady Goodman”) with such noted songwriters as Rodney Crowell, Bill Deasy, Travis Hill, and the late Guy Clark.

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Daniel Paisner Daniel Paisner - author, collaborator, podcaster

Daniel Paisner is an author, collaborator and podcaster. He is the author or co-author of over 80 books, including four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, and he is the ghostwriter behind 17 NYT best-sellers, written in collaboration with such celebrated personalities as Whoopi Goldberg, Serena Williams and Denzel Washington. He is the host of the podcast “AS TOLD TO: The Ghostwriting Podcast,” a production of the Writers Bone Podcast Network, which features conversations with his fellow ghostwriters, as well as songwriters, speechwriters, screenwriters and other artists who work in service of someone else’s voice or vision.