Jess met Madison Girifalco at Burning Man. She's an immersive installation artist, a puppet fabricator and children's book author. It's her goal to help facilitate space for creative communities and individual independence through the immersive arts and storytelling.

This episode goes into how important language is to how we communicate with each other and how we navigate the world.

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Resources:

Esther Perel's Intimacy Inventory Quiz

Matthew McConaughey Pickle Expert

Lea Boroditsky Ted Talk

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