Prolific Living Media: The Daily Interaction

Welcome back to Episode 82 of our Daily Interaction Show! Today's guest is a pretty special person to me. In 2006, I was lost & confused in my corporate career and during one of my many business trips to California, a director friend gave me a copy of this book "Funny in Farsi". I loved reading and writing about Funny in Farsi. Everyone was handing me business books to find my career path but this guy gave me a Persian memoir, a book that made me laugh as hard as it made me cry… and reading it was the seed of inspiration for the future of my own career. Our guest is Firoozeh Dumas, the author of "Funny in Farsi" as well as "Laughing without an Accent". Firoozeh is from Iran, we share the same "vat-an" or home country. She immigrated to America with her family when she was just 7 years old. Two years in America then they moved back to Iran and then 2 years later, they moved back to California. Lots of adjustments no doubt. She came to the US during a hard time for Iranian immigrants in the 1970s and yet I l