Caroline Paul: Fighting Fires, Writing Books and Gutsy Girls
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2016
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Caroline Paul is the New York Times best-selling author of four books, including her memoir about being a San Francisco firefighter, called Fighting Fire, and the illustrated Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology.
In her latest book, The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure, she shares her greatest escapades—as well as those of other girls and women from throughout history. The Gutsy Girl encourages a new generation to conquer fears, face challenges and pursue the lives they want—lives of confidence, self-reliance, friendship and fun.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
- Her unlikely path to becoming one of the first women in the San Francisco Fire Department.
- How she learned that her brother was a secret animal liberation leader for 20 years.
- Is there such a thing a 'girl books' and 'boy books'?
- The writing collective that kept her sane.
- Why she loves flying experimental planes, but not all the fancy gadgets and gear.
Mentioned in This Episode:
- No Boys Allowed: School visits as a woman writer by Shannon Hale
- Why Do We Teach Girls That It’s Cute to Be Scared? by Caroline Paul
- Celia Slater's work with True North Sports
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Fighting Fire by Caroline Paul
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Camp GLP. |
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| 1:03.5 | in the show notes on to our show. |
| 1:07.8 | And we've gendered bravery to be male and fear to be female and fear is actually a female |
| 1:14.1 | trait. |
| 1:15.1 | I mean when you laugh and giggle and say I'm just scared to do that, nobody blinks |
| 1:19.1 | and I. |
| 1:20.1 | If a boy said that, they'd be very worried about him. |
| 1:25.2 | Caroline Paul wasn't the kid who dreamed of being a firefighter when she was little. |
| 1:29.8 | In fact, she dreamed of being a writer and she became a writer and she pitched at some |
| 1:35.0 | point a story to actually cover the San Francisco Fire Department. |
| 1:40.0 | That story she quickly learned wasn't just a story that she felt she wanted to write |
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