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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Suleika Jaouad

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

New York Times bestselling author and journalist Suleika Jaouad began writing her Emmy Award-winning column, “Life, Interrupted,” from her hospital room, chronicling her experiences as a young adult with cancer. She joins to discuss her remarkable life, career, and bestselling memoir, Between Two Kingdoms.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective.

0:02.0

This archival episode of Design Matters originally dropped in March of 2024.

0:13.0

I remember feeling a kind of bifurcation.

0:18.0

I sense that there was my life before and now everything that would come after and that the

0:28.5

person I'd been, the dreams I'd had were buried.

0:34.0

From the TAP audio collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

0:41.0

For 19. with Debbie Millman.

0:44.5

For 19 years, Debbie Millman has been talking with designers and other creative people about

0:48.4

what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and

0:52.0

working on.

0:53.0

On this episode, Sulego Joad talks about illness and its after effects.

0:58.0

I couldn't go back to the person I've been pre-diagnosis.

1:02.0

I didn't know-diagnosis.

1:03.0

I didn't know who I was.

1:05.0

Hi, I'm Lale Arakogley, host of women who travel.

1:11.0

This summer, we visit a remote Danish island with strong biking routes,

1:15.0

we've crossed the country with a baseball stadium chaser, and well how can it be

1:19.9

summer without at least one mouthwatering moment in France.

1:23.0

Join me Lala Arachoglu every week for more adventures on women who travel,

1:28.0

wherever you listen. When Suleika Jawad was a young woman, she wanted to be a foreign

1:38.2

correspondent. That career plan was upended by a cancer diagnosis when she was 22 years old, but in

1:46.0

spite of being told she had only a 35% chance of survival, her creative spark didn't diminish. They turned inward.

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