Every book Maria Shriver recommended on podcasts

Maria Owings Shriver is an American writer and journalist. Shriver is a member of the Shriver and Kennedy families, a former First Lady of California, and the founder of the non-profit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She was married to actor and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger before divorcing in 2021. During an appearance on The Rich Roll Podcast, Shriver discussed her book I Am Maria at length. She described her hope that the book would help readers approach their lives and past choices with compassion, explaining why she wrote it as a reflection rather than a traditional memoir and noting how unexpected it was to release a poetry book drawn from her own life. Shriver also admitted that she felt exposed, terrified, and afraid of publishing revealing personal material and of expressing past shame and confusion, while the host affirmed the power of that vulnerability.