#116 Dawn O'Porter: On Not Following The Herd

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Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 3 March 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dawn O'Porter is a novelist, columnist and broadcaster who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Chris, two songs, cat Lilu and dog Potato. She has made numerous documentaries about all sorts of things: polygamy, childbirth, Geisha, body image, breast cancer and even the movie Dirty Dancing. She is the critically acclaimed author of Paper Aeroplanes and Goose and The Sunday Times Bestseller The Cows.

Dawn helped launch ‘Help Refugees’ in 2015, a charity that sends urgent care to refugees across Europe. She is also the host of ‘Get It On’, a weekly podcast where she interviews interesting people about why they wear what they wear.

The Cows is a powerful novel about three women – judging each other, but also themselves. In all the noise of modern life, they need to find their own voice. Tara, Cam and Stella are strangers living their own lives as best they can – though when society’s screaming you should live life one way, it can be hard to like what you see in the mirror.

When an extraordinary event ties invisible bonds of friendship between them, one woman’s catastrophe becomes another’s inspiration, and a life lesson to all. The book is all about how it’s sometimes OK to not follow the herd.

In this episode we talk about writing novels, motherhood, growing up, the power of quitting and the importance of knowing yourself the best out of everyone.

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0:57.4	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-dot Delete. Today's guest is Dawno Porter,
1:01.9	who is one of my favorite people to follow on the internet
1:05.0	and favorite people to hang out with in real life.
1:08.0	She is a novelist, columnist, broadcaster and designer who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Chris O'Dowd and two sons,
1:16.6	Cat Lelow and her dog potato. I got to go around there when I was visiting West Hollywood
1:24.8	this month and I got to go around to her house and chill out in her garden and she made me a lovely cup of coffee and it was just
1:30.0	really nice being able to see where she lives with the sun shining and talked her all
1:34.3	about her book The Cows which was such a fun read that I read last year. You should
1:39.3	also subscribe to her podcast which is Get It On is a weekly podcast where she interviews
1:43.4	interesting people about what they wear and why they wear it and I've heard rumors
1:47.8	that season two is coming back so make sure you are subscribed for that and also go back and listen to the
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