We're called to create a better world, but what about the task of creating our own lives? A new podcast, hosted by Lily Percy, exploring questions about running as spiritual practice, humor as a tool for survival, and movies as church.

Creating Our Own Lives

Humor as a tool for survival. That's the theme of our second season of Creating Our Own Lives. Host Lily Percy speaks with 15 different voices on the surprising ways humor shapes them and brings meaning to their lives. Including insights from writers, comedians, political and financial reporters, a sex educator and a rabbi — and starring voices like Margaret Cho, Hari Kondabolu, Terry McMillan, Sam Sanders and Lindy West.

Humor as a Tool for Survival [Creating Our Own Lives, Season 2]

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Preview — Humor as a Tool for Survival [COOL, Season 2]

“My mom has a very dark sense of humor. I think that's how I learned how to recycle pain.” 
 
Hari Kondabolu is not your average stand-up comedian. He has a Masters in Human Rights and worked as an immigrants rights organizer — all of which you hear in his writing. His jokes simultaneously bring about discomfort and a nod of the head, without sounding preachy. He uses comedy as a coping mechanism for addressing complex issues of race, identity, and ethnicity post 9/11.

Hari Kondabolu — Comedy Is Therapeutic But Not Therapy [COOL, Season 2]

“Humor is always about ‘as if.’ And it just relaxes everybody. We're going to laugh.” 

Transparent creator Jill Soloway describes Amichai Lau-Lavie as “a God-optional, patriarchy-toppling, Jewish modern mind.” He uses humor to connect — to himself and others, his family, his sexual identity, and his spiritual life. The rabbi says the Jewish people have endured because of their ability to laugh at themselves and, in this way, laugh at the world.

Amichai Lau-Lavie — Deep Laughter in the Place of the Deepest Pain [COOL, Season 2]

“What makes humor is pattern recognition. Finance is very helpful on that front because there are a lot of patterns that keep repeating themselves.” 
 
Heidi N. Moore uses humor as a tool for understanding the world of finance. She tells stories about the people behind the money — why they do what they do and how they do it, and has done so for many years as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Marketplace. By humanizing something as intimidating as finance, she helps people actually understand it.

Heidi N. Moore — When It Comes to Finance and Comedy, It’s All About Patterns [COOL, Season 2]

“I don't think that humor is evasive at all. It’s how we protect our hearts from just bleeding to death.”
 
Bestselling author Terry McMillan knows how to write funny yet complex female characters: Savannah in Waiting to Exhale, Stella in Stella’s Got Her Groove Back, and Georgia in her latest novel, I Almost Forgot About You. Whether they’re wrestling with heartbreak, grief, or loneliness, these women use humor to face whatever life throws at them. But these characters are simply taking the lead from their creator, who sees humor as a way of “protect[ing] our hearts from just bleeding to death.”

Terry McMillan — Humor Is a Form of Hope [COOL, Season 2]

“I cannot tell you how many times laughter has connected me with all different kinds of people throughout the country, of all kinds of political persuasions.”
 
When politics and comedy mix they can become mean, sarcastic, and divisive. Reporter and NPR Politics Podcast co-host Sam Sanders thoughtfully avoids this. As an African American and Pentecostal growing up near a military base in San Antonio, he was surrounded by people from different class, political, and cultural backgrounds. This helped him develop his thoughtful voice, his objectivity, and his ability to connect to others through jokes and laughter.

Sam Sanders — If I Can Laugh With You, I Can See You [COOL, Season 2]

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Heidi N. Moore — When It Comes to Finance and Comedy, It’s All About Patterns [COOL, Season 2]

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