Creating Our Own Lives Podcast
1) [S1] Billy Mills: Olympians Are Chosen by the Gods
“The number one objective of my Olympic pursuit was to heal a broken soul.” Gold medalist Billy Mills set a world record in the 10,000-meter race at the 1964 Games. He shares how running created a ref...Show More
2) [S2] Mark McCleary: Laughter Is a Cloak That Surrounds You
“The best laugh in the world, is laughing at things that are unhappy. And there's probably a certain level of that in Northern Ireland, a laughing-at-things-that-are-bad.” Mark McCleary grew up i...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) [S2] Hari Kondabolu: Comedy Is Therapeutic but Not Therapy
“My mom has a very dark sense of humor. I think that’s how I learned how to recycle pain.” Hari Kondabolu is not your average stand-up comedian. He has a Masters in Human Rights and worked as an immig...Show More
4) [S2] Sam Sanders: If I Can Laugh With You, I Can See You
“I cannot tell you how many times laughter has connected me with all different kinds of people throughout the country, of all kinds of political persuasions.” When politics and comedy mix they can bec...Show More
5) [S2] Terry McMillan: Humor Is a Form of Hope
“I don’t think that humor is evasive at all. It’s how we protect our hearts from just bleeding to death.” Bestselling author Terry McMillan knows how to write funny yet complex female characters: Sava...Show More
6) [S2] Amichai Lau-Lavie: Deep Laughter in the Place of the Deepest Pain
“Humor is always about ‘as if.’ And it just relaxes everybody. We’re going to laugh.” Transparent creator Jill Soloway describes Amichai Lau-Lavie as “a God-optional, patriarchy-toppling, Jewish moder...Show More
7) [S2] Heidi N. Moore: When It Comes to Finance and Comedy, It’s All About Patterns
“What makes humor is pattern recognition. Finance is very helpful on that front because there are a lot of patterns that keep repeating themselves.” Heidi N. Moore uses humor as a tool for understandi...Show More
8) [S2] Daniel José Older: How We Love Is by Roasting Each Other
“Humor reminds me a lot of magic, in that there’s no way to quite replicate it. There’s a power to that” The humor in Daniel José Older’s writing makes his characters come alive. Whether in the playfu...Show More
9) [S2] Alexis Wilkinson: Disarming People with Laughter
“Humor gives me release. Sometimes there’s just too much tension and you have to let it go. Laughter is such a great natural physical response to do that.” Humor has been a tool for success for Alexis...Show More
10) [S2] Maureen Craig: This Strange, Peculiar Family I Call Mine
“Humor establishes new ground for parents and kids to relate on that isn’t just parent-kid.” For Maureen Craig, humor is central to how she understands and relates to her family. As a parent, a wife, ...Show More