Your Creative Push

Alisa Kennedy Jones is an American memoirist, blogger, novelist, and awkward public speaker. A regular contributor to NPR, her wildly popular blog Gotham Girl has amassed nearly 50K avid followers worldwide. She also writes for television and theater and lives with the absurdly titled "ecstatic epilepsy" which she's less than ecstatic about. In her new book, Gotham Girl Interrupted: My Misadventures in Motherhood, Love and Epilepsy, she shares a collection of comedic essays about life with epilepsy as a single mother in Manhattan. Full shownotes: http://yourcreativepush.com/gothamgirl In this episode, Alisa discusses: -The story of her first seizure and being diagnosed with epilepsy. -Learning in television and film that “nothing is precious.” -The lesson that can be learned from improv acting: “Yes, and…” -When it is time to move past the denial stage. -How our brain’s function is to tell a story. -The way in which it felt like she had a blank slate after every seizure. -How she wanted to make her narrative