
From Writing in Carpool to Bestselling Author: Turning “Someday” Into “Right Now” with Christine Gunderson
Episode 376
Guest: Christine Gunderson, bestselling author
What do you love doing but keep postponing because you don’t know where it will lead, or even how to carve out time for it?
Amazon bestselling Author Christine Gunderson joins Laura Cox Kaplan on She Said/She Said Podcast for a conversation about creativity, reinvention, navigating rejection, and making time for meaningful work before anyone is paying you to do it.
Christine’s path took her from a rural North Dakota farm to television journalism and Capitol Hill, where she and Laura first worked together as press secretaries. After stepping away to raise her children,
Christine returned to a longtime passion: writing fiction.
After six unpublished manuscripts and years of rejection, her breakthrough came when she began drawing on her firsthand experience of motherhood. Her humor, observation skills, and understanding of female friendship came together in the voice readers now recognize in her books: Friends with Secrets and Behind White Picket Fences.
Their conversation brings Laura’s concept of Experience Equity to life: recognizing and activating the skills, relationships, interests, and lessons we accumulate across all parts of our lives to create new possibilities.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How Christine found her voice by drawing more fully on her lived experience.
- How she made time to write and discovered when she did her best work.
- What changed when writing became a career with contracts, deadlines, and expectations.
- How she uses trusted readers and editorial feedback to strengthen her work.
- Why she chose traditional publishing and the trade-offs she considered.
- How female friendships provided vital support for her creative ambitions.
- What her children learned from watching her pursue writing and navigate rejection.
Whether you’re exploring a career pivot, returning to an interest, or wondering how your experience could translate into something new, this conversation offers practical encouragement for taking your next step.
Connect with Christine:
- Website and book club inquiries: christinegunderson.com
- Instagram: @GunderChristine
- Substack newsletter: Notes on Love and Laundry
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