Talking Memoir with Megan Stielstra

Everything is Fine

Jennifer Romolini and Kim France

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Education, Arts

4.8 • 875 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Our guest today is Megan Stielstra. Megan is the author of three highly-acclaimed essay collections: Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, which was the 2017 Nonfiction Book of the Year from the Chicago Review of Books. She’s also a beloved writing teacher, a member of the nonfiction faculty at Northwestern University, and teaches courses online with Catapult and StoryStudio. We spoke with Megan about creative practice, what holds us back from telling our stories, writing about those you love, and how the best thing we can do as creative people is listen to and lift each other up.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone it's Abby Clancy here the host of Exhibit A podcast and I'm teaming up with
0:04.6	Barclay Card Payments. We're here to talk to you about toxic hustle culture. Did you know that
0:09.3	60% of business owners say they feel exhausted and drained from where?
0:13.4	So as business owners, what steps can we take to combat this trend?
0:17.8	That's where Barclay Card payments comes in.
0:20.5	As champions of small businesses, Barclaycard payments are rallying against toxic hustle culture by helping business owners to identify those red flags before they become harmful.
0:30.0	On the Barclaycard website, you can answer some simple questions to help check if your business is on the right side of the puzzle.
0:36.0	And from there you can help access loads of free online resources to help you develop healthy habits,
0:41.0	a positive working culture, become a more goal orientated and of course
0:45.3	working smarter, not harder.
0:47.3	So if you're a business owner like me, you can start by visiting the Barclay Card
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0:53.3	hustle and get your personalized support plan.
0:57.8	Hi and welcome to Everything is Fine, a podcast joining over 40. We are your hosts. I'm Kim France.
1:08.0	And I'm Jen Ramalini. And Jen, I just have to say to you that spring is kind of here in New York.
1:15.0	It's super exciting.
1:17.0	I know, it's, well, it's fully here in Los Angeles, which is super, actually I'm really enjoying Los Angeles for the first time in I will be here by the time this comes out actually 10 years I've been in at Los Angeles for 10 years and I'm finally starting to love it and I can't believe it.
1:35.0	Tell me about Spring of New York which is a much better and more exciting season.
1:40.0	Well, I mean, it's going to still, you know, I check the weather pretty obsessively and I see that it's going to be in the 30s for a couple of days later on in the week, but like the days are warming up to like, you know, the 50s or 60s.
1:53.4	And I took the dog for a long walk in Prospect Park
1:56.7	yesterday and nothing was blooming yet,
1:58.8	but everything has buds on it.
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