Today's storyteller is Lisa Caprelli! She is a children's book author and the creator of the Unicorn Jazz book series, which also launched an Amazon show called The Thing I Do. Today Lisa and I talk about the things that people do, social and emotional intelligence, the importance of people sharing what they do to a young audience, and how her psychology background helps her be a writer and leader. This isn't really a typical STEMM episode BUT I always have said I want to talk to anyone who has anything to share that's even remotely STEMM related, and also talking to Lisa was a lot of fun, so I hope you enjoy it!

Also, I want to give some context to this episode. We recorded this on 28 of August 2021, which was the day before Hurricane Ida made landfall at Grand Isle, LA as a Category 4 hurricane. It devastated southeastern coastal Louisiana. Communities have been damaged, wetlands destroyed (as far as we can tell so far, but it's still early days), houses and businesses wiped out. The list goes on. If you want to help, please check out these local organizations on the ground in the bayou and river parishes regions: www.bayoufund.org, Photographs for Louisiana, and Feed The Second Line.

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You can find Rachel Villani on Twitter @flyingcypress and Storytellers of STEMM on Facebook and Twitter @storytellers42.

You can find Lisa on Twitter @LisaCaprelli and her website https://lisacaprelli.com/.

You can find Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do streaming on Amazon, the books wherever you buy books, and at their website https://unicornjazz.com/.

Episodes referenced in this episode: The episode where I tell my "How I Became a Field Biologist" story is remixed and expanded in Episode #100 (or in Episode 1, but the remix is better!).

Book List: Good to Great by Jim Collins, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Recorded on 28 August 2021.