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Podcast: Stay Grounded with Raj Jana
Episode: 182. Mike O’Krent: Curiosity, Conversation, And Mastering The Art Of Listening
Description: “To get to that emotion, to get to that connection that I think we all crave, you have to be a good listener.” Humans have been connecting through stories since time immemorial. There’s something about stories that hook us in, build meaningful connection, and even leave us forever changed. This episode’s guest has been extracting and telling other people’s life stories for decades. Mike O’Krent’s journey started in 1996 when he spent four years interviewing Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. [Now the USC Shoah Foun...