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Tish Rabe

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“Yeah, I was going to say I'll end with what I say to the kids reading and writing both are so exciting. Read a book or write a story start right now.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the other thing, too, that's fun about it is it's a book for kids, right? But when young parents read it, we're hoping that they see it learn about rotary and say, well, let me find a rotary in my community. So we can get some new members and keep going.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, one thing I would like to say, I have another big book coming out. It's called Kindness is Caring, Friendship is Sharing, and it is written with International Rotary Clubs. And Rotary Clubs are all across the country, all around the world, and it comes out in three weeks, and it's a gentle story. It takes place in Africa by Little Zebra. And it's about just that, friendship, caring, sharing, and making the world a kinder place. And I think the world has never needed it more. And I'm very proud of it, and it'll be out in three weeks. I just think we all have to be kind to each other. And I'm doing the best I can to make that happen.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would say right now I would say remember the children are our most precious gift. I get concerned about the way the world is going and I just want everybody to remember that they are the most precious part of our world because they are the future. They are the dreams of the future and we must take good care of them. Read, read, read”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can only imagine 19. The interesting thing for us was yes, there's a billion people, but back then they were all walking everywhere in bicycles. Now, of course, it's cars. But just the sheer volume of people was just amazing. Mind-boggling.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll share real quick is there was a five year old little girl from China, and she has the lead, right? And she and Big Bird travel all around. She spoke no English, zero. She didn't even say hello, right? They taught this to this little girl by rote. So she finally understood by love you meant finally, by like the last day of the shoot, whatever. But we would send them scripts and then we would change the scripts. But then we met her and she'd memorize the original ones. So you'd be out in this shooting outdoors and all of a sudden she'd say, I don't know Big Bird, let's find out. We go, we cut that. Didn't we cut that like a year ago? Wait a minute. It was crazy. And we shot at the Great Wall of China at four o'clock in the morning. Anyway, but that's another whole wild experience.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was crazy 1982. I sing a song on that one. I sang the monkey king song on that show. How fun. It was crazy. What an experience.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We were there a month and there's no coffee. You can't have a film crew with no coffee. You just can't. So the first day, everyone's looking at me and going, where's the coffee? I'm like, coffee? We're in China. I mean, no, tea is tea. They didn't want tea. They wanted coffee. I said, well, you guys are going to have to, you know, get it together because it's not going to happen. Oh, man.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My God, we got back with all this footage. First thing NBC said, you know, maybe it should just be an hour. And we're all looking at each other because it had a really complicated plot. You know, he was looking to find the Phoenix and then she finds the Phoenix. How do you cut the middle out? You know, so anyway, but so we did air as 90 minutes. But for us, it was just crazy. I mean, everything that possibly could have gone wrong went wrong. But we came home with it somehow, but it was really something.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“one big bird costume. And I was a production manager, I don't know what I was, associate producer at that point, I guess. And they literally said to us, you cannot shoot this bird in the rain. They're hand painted. Their hand died feathers. If it starts to rain, you've got to pull Carol out, Carol Spinney out of it, and you've got to put it somewhere dry. So I thought I really knew what I was doing. scheduled 13 rain days. We were there a month in China. poured the first 13 days. I mean, poured. I mean, I just little rain, you know, so we would literally push him out and have him do one line. I don't know. Should we go this way or that way? Boom, pull him back in and, you know, change. It was nuts. So, okay, but it did win the Emmy for Best Special for NBC, and it was a 90-minute special. That was another thing that was crazy.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was really an extraordinary situation. We were the first crew allowed into China, the first film crew. A couple news guys have been in, but it was the first time anybody walked into China with a six foot yellow bird, among other things, right? So somehow we got permission to shoot this thing. I don't know. And we walked in and they shipped.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exercises and all kinds of stuff she loves, but that was a perfect example of what am I going to do. I said, this is so boring. And it turned out to be a huge bestseller, but it is funny. I just, you know,”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“forty two pages all rhyming and was submitted to her and if she turns it down you got to start over and oh great okay so i write the whole book here's one here's the zing singing zans who loves washing your hands wishly washly washly wish squishily squashly squashly squish wash your hands carefully it's up to you you soap in warm water it's easy to do rinse them and while we all sing this refrain germs from your hands will slide right down the drain So first sure, fine, okay, so I turn this in I turn this in and I go, oh boy, I told my husband I got no B. I have no B plan B does not exist at the sneeze snicker sneeze who loves brushing her teeth anyway They loved it. Thank you Mrs. Geisel and they put it out and Michelle Obama funded 16 additional pages with”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And this was the only time that I got this assignment. And honestly, Tim, I thought that is the most boring idea I have ever heard. They wanted a book, the American Academy of Pediatrics wanted a book about go to sleep, eat healthy, exercise. I thought, oh, I can't. This is, oh my good, first of all, you cannot write this stuff without sounding preachy. Do this, do that, do this, do that. So I call, I got my courage up and I called random house and I said, how would you feel if I created my own Dr. Seuss characters like zing singing Zanz who loves washing her hands? And my editor at Rano House said we cannot call Mrs. Geisel and say that you, mother two, living in Connecticut, are going to start writing doctor Seus characters. All you can do is write the whole.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For instance, just a for instance, I will let it go, work on something else, you know, work on another book, do something because it is true you get circled in like a self-dissolve in, you know, you're just so, so consumed by it. This is a great example of that. This is interesting. This is the one that I wrote all about the things you can do that are good for you.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really interesting. I did a presentation to a group of writers called Girls Write WRITE Now. And I had young women in the room with me. And then we had Zoom calls cross-country. It was the first time anyone has asked me if I get writer's block. No one has ever asked me them. This was a couple months ago. And I remember thinking, yes, I do. And what I do is if I get hired to write a book and I still write for other people, I just finished another book for Harper Collins. If they say we have to have your first draft by April 1st, okay, April 1st, I write in, it's due February 15th. Because I know there's going to be a day when I cannot do this. I can't figure it out. It's not going anywhere. I'm stuck. So when that happens, I stop. If I just say, I cannot think one more minute about what Funny Ben spend his money on.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I knew for this book, which is all about reading and snuggling and going to sleep, that she was the perfect illustrator. And a book like Bunnies and Money, it's supposed to be funny. It's this wacky group of kids. This is another kind of artwork. So it really depends on what your message is and what your style is of who you pick.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. We're going to see more artwork here or what? The other thing I urge people who want to write a children's book is to really think about the illustrator. I had worked with Jill Gile in London on a number of books. We did the Huff and Puff train books.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're all kind of all over the place. Dr. Seuss books, these books are forty-two pages. And what's happening is hopefully, we hope, hope of hope, is that parents read to their kids when they're going to sleep or in their home from school. And it's kind of tricky because if they're too long, it gets too much. So starting my own company, I thought, well, let me start with 24 pages. The interesting thing also to share, we do other languages, here's sweet dreams in Spanish. and also pace of, you know, not a million words on a page. Kids love to turn pages. There's a whole kind of, you know, part of this that's just how it works. Adults like to turn.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And I'm working on a big campaign, which is going very well to get people to help me fund free copies of the Central Park Book to kids in underserved neighborhoods in the Five Boroughs, Manhattan, the Bronx, Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. And Again, when I met your friend Alan from this group in New York, this influencer's group, I met a young woman who said, I'll help you do this. It's on the landing page of my website, and we are absolutely crowdfunding enough money to give a book to every first grader.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I work with a friend of mine whose name is Jennifer Perry, and she was the vice president and publisher of Sesame Street Books for a long time. And as soon as I started Tishrabi Books, she came on as my executive editor. But interesting thing about her, she is a trained greeter GRETER greeter at Central Park in New York, and she came to me and she said every single family comes in with the kids in the stroller and the blah blah blah and the first thing they ask is what should I show my kids? Where should I take my children? She said they need a book. They need a rhyming children's book. And I was kind of like, okay, so literally Central Park is 843 acres of open land and lakes and waterfalls and how to get that into 24 pages. I was like, sure, I got it. I don't know.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A family of seagulls who fly all over Mystic, looking at the seaport, the aquarium, the boats, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I wrote the whole thing in like two days. This is downtown mystic. So, you know, who knows where these ideas come from? I don't know. But that was the first time I ever had a complete hallucination in a coffee shop.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I remember looking at her going, Hi, Sher, what do you need it? Anyway, here it is Mystic by the Sea is the best place to be. But the thing that was amazing, and it's never happened to me before, we're in a coffee shop at Mystic Seaport coffee shop. I'm looking right at her, beautiful, beautiful young woman, right? And she says, Can you get it done that fast? And I thought I. And all of a sudden, I saw four seagulls fly over her head right in the middle of a coffee. Obviously, they weren't real seagulls, but in my head, I saw four seagulls. And I got to my car and I said, I've got it.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it was funny. We moved here to Mystic. And I've never had this exactly happen before, but I joined the small business, the mystic chamber of commerce, right? Because I thought, well, I'm running this tiny company by myself. Maybe there are other people who are running small companies who could help me with advice or something. So I go to this coffee shop to meet their head of membership. So the mystic chamber of commerce. And honestly, I think she's going to want me to put something about me on her website or something. And she literally looks at me and says, we have a huge anniversary coming up would you write a children's book about our town? And I remember looking at her and going, well, it was February 8th. And I will never forget it. And I said, well, sure. I said, when do you need it by? And she looks at me and she goes, July.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I love doing content based books, you know, something that's going to teach somebody about something. And I've got a big new book coming out in a month that's actually all about Central Park, New York. Yeah. Oh, okay. So it's a rhyming storybook. Central Park you can see is the best place to be that's coming out.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's a lot going on on my website. I have a lot of books in development. I just started my company. This always makes me laugh. This one is called Days Can Be Sunny for Bunnies and Money. I got a call from a bank in Ohio. They wanted something for kids because financial literacy is a huge thing. You know, you've got to start young. So I came up with these three bunnies, they're triplets, and honey fern likes to urn, Sunny Dave likes to save, and funny Ben likes to spend da da. So, anyway, the thing goes on. And at the end, they also give some of their eggs to the library. And this is them giving them eggs to the library.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, Alaska and the book in Alaska are on Tishrabi books. Just ready to go home, right? With anybody. So, yes, you know, that was another fun thing. Who'd ever made a plush dog before? And the nice thing was the only thing they had to do was put his little bandana on. This is the real dog I found, but all he just had just says Alaska, the name of the book, they didn't have to build a whole new dog to just adapt.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the things that happens to service members is they all said to me that the hardest thing is missing their families and missing the day-to-day little stuff. So in the bear family, Daddy Bear is on a location and they adopt Alaska Wallie's thaw. So in the last page of the book is Alaska jumping on him because they just met. And I also wanted to have this little dog so the kids reading the book and they also have a little soft guy to go with them. So he's on my website, right, Alaska? Yes. So, really inspired to write that one.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And have him adopted from a shelter. And then I thought, well, there's a lot of training in Alaska, and I googled one thing, all of you, if you ever want to create a character. First thing you do is Google the name because for me, if I find out that I was going to name him Tony and I put in Tony the dog and there already is one, I would name him something else. It's just not worth the hassle. And I put in Alaska and the only thing that came up was Alaskan Huskies, but not the name Alaska. So I named him Alaska. But the cool thing was I sent one of these little dogs to my art director and my illustrator. And from the first minute, she was able to put him in the book the way he really looks. And one of the things that happens to service members, that's him getting adopted from the shelter.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A little stuffed dog, and I went to buy my granddaughter a little present, and he literally fell in my bag. And I'm looking at him going, he's awful cute. And then I thought, wow, I was right in the middle of writing, sometimes apart always in my heart. And a lot of service members have to leave their pets. It's horrible because they get relocated and sometimes can't take them with them. So I said to myself, okay, I'm going to have the bear family have a dog. Here he is, right there.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Families send love from far away, I was honored to write it, I've received a lot of big awards for it. It's really a passion project for me because I cannot imagine my son walking away from my granddaughters for a year. But it happens every day. And then the funny thing about Alaska, this is really funny. Here's Alaska. I actually was going to...”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the first thing I did was I interviewed service members, spouses, partners, and kids. It took me months I have notebooks full of this stuff about what it's like to walk away from mere three year old, and hope you'll be back to see her someday, to serve our country and keep us safe. And I got inspired to write the book. And the people I interviewed gave me tips to put in the book for young families facing this for the first time. And one of my favorites was early interview. She said, when my husband leaves, he traces his hand on paper and I put it up next to the door so the kids can give him a high five every time they leave. I mean really you know so sometimes apart always in my heart helping military”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And there's no place like space, and that's all nice. But I want them to have a book that reflects their story. This is where I am. I miss you, but I'm fine. You know, you're fine. I'm fine. It's fine.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I read every single book for military children in the library and didn't see anything that was helpful for this topic. And I was literally leaving and that librarians said, what are you here for? And I said, I want to write a book for military kids. And she said, oh, and she smiled at me and she said, you just need to reach out to united through reading. And I looked at her and I said, united through reading. Okay. United through reading records, deployed service members reading books to their kids, hold it up, read the book. Then they send the video recording home to the child with a free copy of the book so that they can all read together. And when I heard this story, I said, well, what I want to do is write a book from the point of view it's lovely that they're reading cat and hat.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And all through the years writing children's books, I had wanted to write a book for military kids and military families in honor of my father, but also because I felt no one understands this life. No one understands the sacrifices they go through. And I'm the grandmother of two little girls who are five and three. And I got thinking about what it means to my granddaughter when my son isn't away on business for two days. And the military kids see their parents, their moms, and their dads go for a year. And I tried everything. I tried Department of Defense, Department of Education, the Naval Bases. I'm like, can somebody help me do this? Fast forward, I'm starting my own company and I got clearance to go on the base at the Groton Naval Base, which is right next to Mystic Connecticut. I went into their library, got permission to go into their library.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, I can. The aegis of this book is interesting, as I think I told you, I am the child of a World War II hero And my dad was in college when he enlisted, and he was an engineering. He was an engineer. So they made him a navigator and a navigator in a B17 sits in the front with the pilot and shows them the maps and stuff like that. And his plane was hit by enemy fire, burst into flames, and he jumped out and was arrested and spent a little under two years in a German prison camp. That's when he came home. They had my brothers and they had me, two boys and a little girl, a little girl was me.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But he literally leaves at seven o'clock in the morning and gets home at four. This full day. I was like, well, I better do something or I'm going to go nuts. And I tell you, there is nothing like giving a book to a child who doesn't have a book. You know, I am on this lifetime mission of trying to get free books to kids who don't have any. And I have to say, having started at Sesame Street, the idea was to lift everybody up and help everybody and teach everybody how to read, it's amazing to me we're here at 2026, but I'm doing what I can to make sure kids get books as many as possible. Read, read, read.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We have four children and two live in Boston and two were living in Manhattan. So we sort of pick Mystic Connecticut because it's kind of in the middle and it is the best fishing in New England because we are right on the ocean next to Rhode Island and Block Island and all of that stuff right around. And he goes out and they have the best time and they catch sea bass and all these different kind of fish and it's out in the water, you know, beautiful ocean. He's got a 24 foot boat, you know, the whole thing. And he brings back fish and people, we give it away and he cooks it. And it's just really fun.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that helps the child go, I think they just love that their mom's reading to them. And it sets up a dialogue. That's why dialogic reading. I couldn't get anyone to let me write a book for them. So I finally said, well, then I'll just do it myself. So what I'm doing now with my books is I have the ability to do what I want to do and the messages I feel never got out there. It has been a huge learning curve or spike because I always just turn the words in and somebody magically, a year and a half later, sent me ten copies of the book. Now I've got to find an illustrator and a, you know, printer and a shipment thing and be on Amazon and sell books on my website and, you know, but I absolutely love every minute of it. It is so, much fun.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, during the fishing season, he fishes three to four days a week. So I'm sitting there going, well, what am I going to do? You know, let's think. And I really felt that I had some ideas for books that the other publishers weren't doing. One book I'm very proud of is called Love You, Hug You, Read You. It was my very first book. And it's a board book. I had begged all these publishers I work with to do a book with what they call dialogic reading. And dialogic reading has little questions. So you got the adorable mummy cat reading to her little kittens and the little thing below says, what do you think that little kittens are thinking?”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's funny. I ended up marrying a guy I met in high school. Neat, that high school shaped my whole life. So many. So many crown jewels. So many jewels. And my husband and I live in Mystic, Connecticut, and he's an avid fisherman”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Their kids and then put the tips in the back and they'll read them too And then I put them all in rhyme. So 30 to 60 minutes before you tuck them in is the perfect time for their bedtime routine to begin. And what's happening is parents read the book and they read the tips out loud to the kids. So the kids are going, oh, 30 to 60 minutes. Mom, we're supposed to be in bed now. And then, of course, it has to, and then you sing a lullaby because singing is so restful. And the kids now, it's been out for a couple years. Everybody knows the songs. The kids know it, you know, the kids at school, they sing it in school daycare, you know. So, yeah, it's very, very powerful.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it was really interesting because I started my own company right during COVID, 2020. COVID's flying around and what am I going to do? And, you know, turned 70, now what? And I was introduced to a program with a friend of mine said, you have to meet the people at pajama program. It's now called Beyond Bedtime, but then it was called pajama program. So I went in and I found out that they give free pajamas and story books to kids facing adversity. Many kids not having any pajamas, any story books. So I kind of went in to meet with them thinking, well, maybe I could do a fundraiser or get my girlfriends to send in some pajamas or something. And they said, what we really need is to help parents learn how to get their kids to go to sleep. And I said, the best thing that works for this is to write a storybook. They'll read to me.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it really works. And I really encourage everybody, I get this all the time. Everybody's always, yeah, but you've got this beautiful voice and you sing all the time. And I can't sing. And I just try to say to everybody, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, you can sing. It doesn't mean if it's croaky, it doesn't matter what it sounds like. The only voice your child wants to hear is yours. They want to hear you sing to them. And yes, I have me singing them on my website and I try to help everybody learn to sing them up. But at the end of the day, it's your voice resonating in their ear. I forget how I said it in here, but it's like, you know, that is the voice that every little kid wants to hear. The sound of your voice when you read and sing is what your child loves more than anything. It isn't sweet dreams here, but.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just The other thing that's huge is that music is unbelievably helpful to teach kids and the sound of it and the rhythm of it and the rhymes every single one of the books I've created myself has a song in it. And what I do is I write them to public domain melodies because people know these songs, most of them. And my first one, the first book I created was a little book about going to sleep. So I wrote a lullaby, you know, Night is here, today is done, it's time to sleep, my little one, to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was the only one in my class, Ithaca College, class of seventy two that did not take an education back up. I didn't want to teach music, I didn't want to teach kids, you know, do mi facile tido. I wanted to be a star on Broadway. Are people missing this? What part of this are you guys missing? So I literally was convinced I would leave college and come to New York and within a year, name and lights, piece of cake. And only anybody as nuts as I am would think that, but hey, and my parents never blinked. They said, sure, if you think this is going to work? You know, good luck. But anyway, it just has always been a part of my life.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a song called Tammy from Tammy in the Bachelor Movie. My mother loved it I hear the cottonwood whispering above Tammy Tammy Tammy's my love My brothers were doing their homework, they stopped, my mother was doing something the kitchen she stopped my father what just happened and I was just encouraged from day one you know to pursue music and writing so it was a very receptive and I'll be honest when I went to college I told my mother I'm going to get a degree in singing well now you'd say well what are you going to do to eat? You know, that's nice, you know, but if you don't make it on Broadway, what are you going to do?”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, a couple of things are interesting about my background, and we'll talk about this, I know, in a few minutes, my military book, but my parents got married as World War II was starting. And when my father came home, he was a prisoner of war. I can tell you more about that later. But when he came back, they wanted to start a family. And they had two little boys and a little girl and a little girl was me. And my father used to come home and play piano for about a half hour after work, but I do not come from a musical family at all. My mom was an English major, so she loved to write, so she was a writer, but music was not a thing in our family, and my brothers didn't play much and it was fine. They played sports. Well, supposedly when I was seven, I was in first grade. My father was playing the song. He played every single night. It was my mother's favorite. And I just stood up and started singing with him. And they still talk about it.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm not prepared for this. So this kind of stuff goes on all day. This is what I do for a living, but it is fun. I mean, you have to, you know, keep your sense of humor.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But we can't get the illustrator to change the art. So Emily here, Valded, Mallory Valerie Emily Mitzes, was holding pizzas. So I'm like, okay. So I changed it to Mallory Valerie Emily Mickles just showed us nine hundred ninety nine Nickels. And all the art guy had to do was change the pizza boxes to nickels saved. But I'm like, what? What do you mean, Pluto? Give me a break. I mean, seriously. Pluto's debate.”
2026-02-18 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #854: Tish Rabe — 200+ Children's Books, Getting Picked for Dr. Seuss, Lessons from Early Sesame Street, How to Write 300+ Songs, and More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT