Working: How Children’s Book Creators Natalia and Lauren O’Hara Balance Art and Family

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🗓️ 17 April 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, host June Thomas talks to sisters Natalia and Lauren O’Hara, who work as an author/illustrator team to create children’s books like Hortense and the Shadow and Frindleswylde. In the interview, Natalia and Lauren discuss their collaborative relationship, their early exposure to fairy tales, and misconceptions about gender in children’s book publishing. After the interview, June and co-host Isaac Butler talk about sibling relationships and what it’s like to collaborate with a close friend or family member. In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, June asks Natalia and Lauren if they ever include Easter eggs for parents in their books. Then the three of them discuss Northern English accents and rhyming words. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Heard about Magpie, the vegan pie truck that needed a bit of help from Gold Daddy.
0:03.4	One day the owners are like,
0:04.8	this business hasn't reached this potential.
0:07.2	And the other one goes,
0:08.2	we need a bigger piece of the pie.
0:09.9	And then it hits her.
0:11.1	We need Gold Daddy.
0:12.1	Look, we can get it the main name and create an online store,
0:14.8	so we can sell to more customers.
0:16.8	Now they've gone from serving a couple of pies,
0:19.2	the plugin nationwide.
0:21.0	And now everyone's like,
0:22.3	vegan pies are the new thing around here.
0:25.0	Wait, no me!
0:26.4	Tid a next step on your business journey with Gold Daddy.
0:40.6	The way that conflict is playing out in our work relationship
0:45.2	is very similar to what would be happening in our personal relationships.
0:48.4	I think it's that what's a therapist call it, the core scene,
0:51.2	the arguments that you come back to again and again.
0:53.2	And I think resolving that within our work
0:56.0	has been really healthy for us.
1:00.7	Welcome back to Working.
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