June 30, 2023

Laura Numeroff: Life Lessons Learned from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Laura Numeroff: Life Lessons Learned from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

My guest on E273 of #thePOZcast  is Laura Numeroff. You may not have had a childhood if you’ve never heard of her book “If You Give a Mouse A Cookie.” She’s sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide, been invited to the White House not once but twice, and even received 2 Emmy nominations for the adaptation of her book to a TV series.

Laura is also heavily involved with the “It Takes A Village” project which we’ll get into a bit later in the show. Laura is super-accomplished and also just a very down-to-earth person that I’m excited to have on the show, so let’s get to it!

To learn more, please visit www.JoinOurVillage.org to see how you can help It Takes A Village to educate, empower and inspire kids all over the world.

And you can find her classic books at https://lauranumeroff.com/
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1:43 - Growing up in Artistic Family

3:46 - Core Values and Creativity

5:29 - Awareness and Foresight in 8 years old

6:06 - Fashion sense and confidence

9:23 - Job as a Private Investigator

11:25 - Origin story of the mouse

12:51 - Feeling of rejection/How to manage it

13:33 - Young Generation dealing with rejection

14:13 - Process vs the finish product

15:04 - Put yourself in the mindset

15:51 - Parenting Style

19:08 - Milestone as an Accomplishment

21:59 - All about Organization and its mission

23:14 - 100 Libraries Target

25:52 - Book Reading vs reading Online

26:21 - Thought process on Cover Design

28:08 - Thoughts on Celebrity doing children books

30:05 - Writer's Block

33:23 - Educational developments

38:01 - Single greatest piece of advice

38:39 - Laura's North Star