Podcast host! Molly Stillman, IF I DON'T LAUGH, I'LL CRY: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came Into This Room for
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Zibby Owens
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Zibby chats with podcaster and writer Molly Stillman about her laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir IF I DON’T LAUGH I’LL CRY: How Death, Debt, and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming, and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For. Molly describes her childhood with a mom who was a Vietnam War veteran—and what it was like to lose her at seventeen to an autoimmune disorder caused by exposure to Agent Orange. She also shares how she squandered an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years… which filled her with shame and embarrassment. Finally, she describes her writing journey, the challenges of revisiting painful memories, and how she balances humor and seriousness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books, hosted by me, Zibi Owens. |
| 0:07.6 | It's an award-winning podcast with over 1,900 episodes, all featuring authors of books you love and those you have yet to discover. |
| 0:15.5 | Listen daily five times a week. |
| 0:17.2 | Then go to Zivimedia.com and learn more about what the L.A. Times called the Zivieverse. |
| 0:22.7 | Zippy Media includes Zivis Bucshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, |
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| 0:31.5 | Go check it out at Zivimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zivie Owens. |
| 0:36.8 | It'll take you where you need to go. Thanks for listening. |
| 0:42.6 | Molly Stillman is the author of If I Don't Laugh I'll Cry, how death, debt, and comedy led to a life of faith farming and forgetting what I came into this room for. |
| 0:52.6 | Molly is the host of the Can I Laugh on Your |
| 0:54.6 | Shoulder podcast and a sought-after speaker. The lifestyle blog she created in 2007, still being Molly, |
| 1:00.9 | is a community for women who love ethical style, clean beauty, parenting, funny stories, |
| 1:06.1 | and serving in their communities. Her deep passion lies and inspiring women to know they were created on purpose, |
| 1:12.1 | with a purpose, and for a purpose. Molly lives with her husband John, children, Lily, and Amos, |
| 1:17.3 | and various and sundry animals on a small farm in Durham, North Carolina. She loves Jesus a whole lot, |
| 1:23.4 | drinks too much Diet Coke, and eats a lot of Chipotle burritos. You can find her at stillbeingmolly.com. |
| 1:30.2 | Her book, by the way, has a forward from Kristen Hannah. Welcome, Molly. Thank you so much for |
| 1:35.2 | coming on Mom's No Time to read books to discuss if I don't laugh, I'll cry how death, debt, |
| 1:40.3 | and comedy led to a life of faith farming and forgetting what I came into this room for. |
| 1:45.1 | I'm so honored to be here. Thank you so much for having me. Oh my gosh. It's my pleasure. |
| 1:50.8 | I really could not put your book down. It's so good. And, you know, the way that you write, |
| 1:56.7 | as if you and I are like sitting on the couch, chit-chatting and how you write about the writing |
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