• Making It Up with Barbara Feigin, author of My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom

  • Oct 25 2024
  • Length: 1 hr
  • Podcast

Making It Up with Barbara Feigin, author of My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom

  • Summary

  • Barbara Feigin is an advertising executive and World War II refugee, having fled with her parents from Nazi Germany as a young child in 1940. She attended Whitman College, then completed a graduate program in business run jointly by Harvard Business School and Radcliffe Graduate School. She had a 30-year career in advertising, mostly with Grey Advertising, and in 2017 she was named one of the century’s Legendary Pioneers by Grey. Her memoir was released January 2024.

    Among other things, Barbara and Carter discuss Barbara’s family’s experiences escaping Nazi Germany, working in advertising as a woman in the 1960s, and how Barbara utilized writing coaching to start her memoir. At the end of their conversation, they make up an imaginative story using a line from Alex Kenna’s Burn This Night.

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