Jess Miller on Losing Everything in the LA Fires

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Jess Miller is a designer, illustrator and educator based in LA. She joins me to share her story of losing everything in the Eton fire and how her community, near and far, are rallying to support her as she starts her life all over again.

IN THIS EPISODE

• Using social media as a life-line

• "Dead inside" — Why going back to work is so hard
• Why GoFundMe is necessary after disaster strikes
• Having to choose what to keep when you leave all else behind
• Why GoFundMe is necessary after disaster strikes
• The kindness of strangers

SHOW LINKS

• LA Fires Funds + Resource Log (shared by Agent Pekka) — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XoTlgtYuPQ1tD1FSJnJzzWa7XSi3YO9orlY9cIWX3uQ/edit?gid=910889114#gid=910889114
• Jess Miller's GoFundMe — https://gofund.me/1508aee5
• Venmo: @jessmillerdraws
• PayPal: jess@jessmillerdraws.com
• My 2024 Annual Review on Substack — https://open.substack.com/pub/mrtomfroese/p/2024-the-year-in-review

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CREDITS

Music and Cues by Mark Allan Falk - ⁠⁠http://www.linktr.ee/semiathletic⁠⁠

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