Olivia and Jenny & the High School Daze

03/25/23 • 70 min

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A Fresh Story, season 2, episode 8

What was it like going to a Quaker high school on Long Island in the early aughts? In this March sister episode of A Fresh Story, Olivia and Jenny take you down memory lane of their high school experiences - and they were very different experiences! We chat about everything from their love for Latin class, high school heartbreak, bullies, their fashion sense, how high school impacted the rest of their life, and lots of very odd and funny stories about attending a private school before social media existed! Let us know if you have any questions - and enjoy this walk down memory lane!

A Fresh Story, season 2, episode 8

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Dana Bowling & the Casting of Our Story

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Dana Bowling is a former award-winning casting director turned brand strategist and video coach. She helps small business owners and entrepreneurs get comfortable and confident on camera to create video content that increases visibility, all while having Fun. Dana lives in Los Angeles with her husband, a Director of Photography and her two sons. She also hosts the podcasts, Show Up on Video and A Daily Dose of Dana.

We chatted with Dana Bowling about her experience in the world of entertainment as a casting director, why she ultimately decided to make a career pivot while she was at the top of her game, how she met her husband and why it’s so important to see the potential in a person when you fall in love, and how our childhood passions are actually the key to our happiness as adults.

You can find Dana on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, her website, and check out her podcasts, Show Up on Video and A Daily Dose of Dana.

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Zoe Fishman & The Fun Widow's Book Tour

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Novelist Zoe Fishman is the critically acclaimed author of six novels, the most recent of which, The Fun Widow's Book Tour, was published in March of this year. She’s the recipient of myriad awards, including an AJC "10 Southern Books We Loved in 2019" selection and an IndieNext Pick, and was the 2020 Georgia Author of the Year in the Literary Fiction category.

We chatted with Zoe about losing her husband suddenly and how it completely changed course of her life, how living with grief feels, her relationship to writing, and her dedication to telling her story so that no one else feels along in their grief journey. Join us as we talk about her new novel, The Fun Widow’s Book Tour, loss, grief, writing, and finding hope.

Interviews and profiles of Zoe have been featured in Publisher’s Weekly, The Atlanta Jewish Times and The Huffington Post among others and her essays have been published in The New York Times' Modern Love column, as part of The Atlanta Journal Constitution's Personal Journey series and Modern Loss.
Zoe worked in the New York publishing industry for thirteen years before moving to Atlanta in August of 2011. She was most recently the Executive Director of The Decatur Writers Studio as well as an instructor, and a Visiting Writer at SCAD Atlanta. She is currently working on her next novel and raising her two young boys in Decatur, Georgia.

You can learn more about Zoe Fishman on her website, and snag The Fun Widow's Book Tour here.