I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still

watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,

soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,

Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago, join me as I share how the genre

began, their social impact, and why these stories endure. Listen, wherever you get your podcast.

From WBEZ Chicago, I am Greta Johnson, and this is Power Up a new project from NerdUp

podcast. Life D-E-E-Z. And this is Power Up a new project from NerdUp Podcast.

Life these days can be hectic.

In a world that seems faster and louder and busier than ever, it's real tricky business to find time for yourself. So we want to know how do people set themselves up for success in an exhausting world.

Hey, my name is Annie Russell, and I just wanted to share how I power up. It's not too big of a deal.

I'll get together with like three of my friends and we'll hang out at the New York Public Library.

Well, actually, we are called there to investigate some paranormal activity. But once we

start looking into it, things get pretty fun. And sometimes they get a little scary, but like PG-13

scary, you know, we do stuff like check out people's haunted apartments, open the gate between

dimensions, and the stay puff marshmallow man shows up sometimes. Oh, you know what? I am so sorry. I am

describing the plot to the movie Ghostbusters, which I recently watched. What I do to power up is

stand-up comedy. That was Annie Russell, W.B.EZ's news editor. We totally did not ask her to do that. However, we did ask Grace Bonnie how she recharges her batteries.

Grace is the creator of a gorgeous website called Design Sponge. She wrote a book called In the Company of Women a couple of years ago.

It had gorgeous profiles and portraits and Q&As of more than a hundred ladies who are bosses.

Women like insecure showrunner Issa Ray and author Roxanne Gay and poet Nikki Giovanni and musician Nico Case, all sorts of women who are in creative industries and who are taking charge. Her follow-up to that book is a magazine called Good Company. And partly because Grace is in this kind of intense creative industry and has spoken with so many other women who are, we were really curious to know, how does Grace power up? That's one of the things that I think everyone has like a really pithy answer to about like yoga, meditating.

I don't do any of those things.

I think I ask for help.

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