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#273 | THE UNEXPECTED MAGIC OF CARING FOR OTHERS | WITH ELISSA STRAUSS
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Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast.
This week’s guest is a writer who has been exploring the politics and culture of parenting and caregiving for more than fifteen years.
The marvelous Elissa Strauss.
We cover a lot of ground, including:
- Insights from her book,'The unexpected magic of caring for others'
- How we can inspire a new culture and conversations.
- The intersection of motherhood and cultural criticism.
- The effect of cultural programming on today’s society.
- Balancing professional life with family responsibilities.
I hope you find this conversation useful, and if you do, please share it widely so mothers everywhere can access the support and information they need to thrive.
ABOUT ELISSA: Elissa has been writing about the politics and culture of parenting and caregiving for more than fifteen years. Her work appears in publications like the Atlantic, the New York Times, Glamour, ELLE, TheWeek.com, and elsewhere. She was a former contributing writer at CNN.com and Slate, where her cultural criticism about motherhood appeared on DoubleX. Her book, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others, is out now from Gallery Books.
She also works in curation and cultural programming. She is the associate director of LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, a global artists incubator program that uses ancient Jewish texts to inspire the creation of new culture and conversation and the artistic director of the LABA hub in the Bay Area. Additionally, she is the senior curator of the 2024 California Jewish Open at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.
RESOURCES:
WEBSITE: https://www.elissastrauss.com/
INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/elissaavery/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/elissa.strauss.7/
TWITTER/ X: https://x.com/elissaavery
PURCHASE ELISSA'S BOOK, 'When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others': https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1982169273?tag=simonsayscom
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Manage episode 430429326 series 1368262
Welcome to this week’s episode of the Happy Mama Movement podcast.
This week’s guest is a writer who has been exploring the politics and culture of parenting and caregiving for more than fifteen years.
The marvelous Elissa Strauss.
We cover a lot of ground, including:
- Insights from her book,'The unexpected magic of caring for others'
- How we can inspire a new culture and conversations.
- The intersection of motherhood and cultural criticism.
- The effect of cultural programming on today’s society.
- Balancing professional life with family responsibilities.
I hope you find this conversation useful, and if you do, please share it widely so mothers everywhere can access the support and information they need to thrive.
ABOUT ELISSA: Elissa has been writing about the politics and culture of parenting and caregiving for more than fifteen years. Her work appears in publications like the Atlantic, the New York Times, Glamour, ELLE, TheWeek.com, and elsewhere. She was a former contributing writer at CNN.com and Slate, where her cultural criticism about motherhood appeared on DoubleX. Her book, When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others, is out now from Gallery Books.
She also works in curation and cultural programming. She is the associate director of LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture, a global artists incubator program that uses ancient Jewish texts to inspire the creation of new culture and conversation and the artistic director of the LABA hub in the Bay Area. Additionally, she is the senior curator of the 2024 California Jewish Open at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.
She lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and their two sons.
RESOURCES:
WEBSITE: https://www.elissastrauss.com/
INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/elissaavery/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/elissa.strauss.7/
TWITTER/ X: https://x.com/elissaavery
PURCHASE ELISSA'S BOOK, 'When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others': https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1982169273?tag=simonsayscom
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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