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#516: Suleika Jaouad on Invaluable Road Trips, the Importance of a To-Feel List, and Finding Artistic Homes

Jun 1, 2021

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Suleika Jaouad

Suleika Jaouad, author of the bestselling memoir "Between Two Kingdoms," shares her journey of resilience and creativity following her battle with leukemia. She discusses the profound insights gained from a transformative 100-day road trip and the therapeutic power of journaling. Jaouad emphasizes the importance of a 'To-Feel' list to guide emotional experiences and reflects on her impactful project, The Isolation Journals, designed to foster creativity during isolation. Her story is a testament to vulnerability and the connections forged through shared challenges.

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Prison Hospice Reporting

Suleika Jaouad reported on a prison hospice staffed by inmates.
One inmate, Fernando Murillo, was later released partly due to her story.

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A Name's Significance

Suleika Jaouad's name, given by her Tunisian father, reflects her multicultural upbringing.
She initially disliked its uniqueness but now embraces it.

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From Dorm Room to Journalism

Suleika's journalism career started with a college assignment.
She profiled a classmate injured in a suicide bombing and the bomber's mother.

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Suleika Jaouad (@suleikajaouad) is the author of the instant New York Times bestselling memoir Between Two Kingdoms. She wrote the Emmy Award-winning New York Times column + video series “Life, Interrupted,” and her reporting and essays have been featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Vogue, and NPR, among others. A highly sought-after speaker, her mainstage TED talk was one of the ten most popular of 2019 and has nearly four million views.

She is also the creator of The Isolation Journals, a community creativity project founded during the COVID-19 pandemic to help others convert isolation into artistic solitude. Over 100,000 people from around the world have joined. You can find one of my favorite prompts, which I shared on my blog last spring, at tim.blog/dialogue.

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