This is Democracy – Episode 84: Humor in Trying Times

Jeremi sits down with Deborah Grayson Riegel to discuss our varying relationships with humor and how humor helps us in tragedy. Zachary sets the scene with his poem, “The Ones Who Live.” Deborah Grayson Riegel is an executive coach, speaker, instructor, and writer who helps leaders and teams communicate and present more effectively. She has served as an instructor of Management Communication at Wharton Business School and also worked as a Visiting Professor of Executive Communications at the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University, China. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Stuyvesant High School. Deborah’s clients range from the American Bar Association, American Express, Bloomberg, and Kraft Foods to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Pfizer and the United States Army. She has been a featured expert and a contributor to Harvard Business Review, Inc., and The New York Times. Deborah is the co-author with her teenage daughter Sophie of Overcoming Overthinking: 36 Ways to Tame Anxiety for Work, School, and Life. She and her husband Michael, also an executive coach, live in New York with their rescue dog, Nash.