Laura Zimmermann | Pratfalls of Parenting Ep 147

11/03/15 • 65 min

“No one should hand you a bunch of cash after college and say give the world yourself.” Laura Zimmermann is a writer, a philanthropic leader and an all-around fantastic human being. Laura spent 18 years working for the McKnight Foundation, with a large portion of that time serving as the director of their artist fellowship program. [...]

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Laura Holway & Ben McGinley | Pratfalls of Parenting Ep 146

“I think we both knew that we liked each other, but I was a pretty damaged person.” Laura Holway is a choreographer, theater maker, writer, producer, and creative maker of unstuckness. Ben McGinley is a video maker, producer, podcaster, and teller of stories. In their personal partnership Laura and Ben have collaborated on many projects from [...]

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Nora McInerny Purmort | Pratfalls of Parenting Ep 148

“Grief is boring and isolating and exhausting.” Writer, community builder and internet lover Nora McInerny Purmort talks about constantly writing out stories when she was a child, often with story prompts from her father who was a copywriter who secretly wrote novels. She talks about writing a regular column for the Southwest Journal when she [...]