Episode 578: Lissa Soep

Longform

2024/05/08

Overview Shownote Highlights Transcript Chapters Pins

Shownote

Lissa Soep is an audio producer, editor and author whose latest book is Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End. “I am so keenly aware of how much my own voice is a product of editing relationships and co-producing rela...

Highlights

In this reflective and deeply personal podcast episode, Lissa Soep explores how grief, language, and collaboration shape identity and memory.

23:11

Our speech is never fully our own—it’s shaped by others’ words, especially in grief and memory

42:48

Mercy's discovery of Christine's boxes near manuscript submission completed the book emotionally

Chapters

Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations that Never End (Spiegel & Grau • 2024)

00:00

"Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans" (Sam Anderson • New York Times Magazine • Oct 2021)

33:00

Transcript

Lissa Soep: It's true that some things change as we get older. But if you're a woman over 40 and you're dealing with insomnia, brain fog, moodiness, and weight gain, you don't have to accept it as just another part of aging. And with MidiHealth, you can ge...