How can gratitude and dreaming big live in our everyday lives?

On this final day of the week's Gratitude and Dreaming challenge, Laura considers how the challenge has helped her to dream not just for herself, but for what her future could look like for her and her family.

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How can a shift in mindset create small wins?

On this birthday episode, Laura shares how being grateful has given her small wins, which have gone a long way to helping her process the loss of the past week and have given her a sense of progress.

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How can we reimagine generosity?

Laura confronts her own cynicism about generosity, and how a recent study showing a link between gratitude and generosity and Laura's own experience of her family losing their source of income has pushed her to think about generosity in a new light.

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How do you create art you can live off of during a global pandemic?

With Laura's recent loss of income what does it mean to create art in a world where she is among the non-essential. She turns to Queersplaining podcast host Callie Wright to find practical solutions for creating art you can live off of.

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How can you dream big in a time filled with so much uncertainty?

As Laura continues to process the losses of the past week, a good friend challenges her to see this time as an opportunity to dream.

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When the news came down about the mandate to shelter in place, Bay Area writer Laura Joyce Davis decided to mark this moment in history by chronicling her experience in real time. In each short episode, she draws inspiration from artists, scholars, and thinkers to find her way to hope and connection even as she lays bare the fears, challenges, and losses of this time.

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On today's Story Saturday, Laura talks with bestselling and Michael L. Printz Award-winning author Nina LaCour. Laura and Nina have known each other for sixteen years, and talk about how COVID-19 has changed their lives, their writing, and what they hope is ahead for all of us.

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How does crying and our tears help us?

As Laura processes her own grief over two major losses this week,

she looks to the science of tears and Professor Ad Vingerhoets, one of the world's leading researchers on crying, to understand what we need for our tears to help us.

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What does it mean to sit in this moment of fatigue and uncertainty while staying focused on the things that matter?

As her family faces the reality of unemployment and a future they can't control, Laura shares some big news in this little episode.

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As greenhouse gas emissions have come down during this global pandemic, how can we find our way to a cleaner, more sustainable world?

On this Earth Day, Laura steps away from the politics of climate change and dreams about how we can find our way to a cleaner, more sustainable world.

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