Podcasts
How to Defy the Odds After an Injury with Author Jo Giese
Meet Local Hero Jo Giese
Trail Tales for Oboz Footwear
Someone You Should Know with Host Stuart Sax and Guest Jo Giese
Stuart Sax talks with Jo Giese, a radio journalist and author who has endured a torn Achilles tendon and botched surgeries to now embrace her passion of hiking to waterfalls.
Today Patty welcomes Jo Giese, author of 'Keep Chasing Waterfalls,' She shares her story of a freak accident that left her questioning if she'd ever walk again, let alone hike. Despite a botched surgery leading to her losing her Achilles, Jo's determination and extensive rehabilitation allowed her to defy the odds and return to hiking. Jo reflects on her active life before the accident, including childhood adventures and her love for the outdoors, which eventually led to her fascination with waterfalls. She explores the scientific and emotional benefits of being near waterfalls, such as the soothing sound and negative ions that can improve mood and health. She emphasizes the kindness of strangers and the importance of community.
On This Episode Of Talking Junk, We Sit With Jo Giese To Discuss Her Book
Keep Chasing Waterfalls: A Story of Adventure, Tragedy and Defying the Odds ...
Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons From My Mother by Jo Giese wins Best Cover in the Nonfiction/Memoir category for 2022 Bedside Reading Book Cover Award.
Jo Giese was just awarded two 2021 COVR Visionary Awards for her book Never Sit If You Can Dance! Her book won a GOLD Award for Autobiographical Memoir and a SILVER Award for Best Cover Design.
Best Cover Design
Autobiographical Memoir
Announcing the Jo Giese Excellence Endowment in American Studies
The Department of American Studies is delighted and honored to announce the establishment of the Jo Giese Excellence Endowment in American Studies. A graduate of the American Studies program in 1969, Ms. Giese went on to a path-breaking career as a radio journalist, author, teacher, and community activist…
Episode Description
Cynthia Brian interviews several cast members. www.mightyoakthemovie.com Cynthia interviews award-winning journalist/author Jo Giese offering uplifting lessons in old-fashioned civility in her memoir, Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother. The lessons are wisdom from a mother of the 20th century for a daughter in the 21st century. www.jogiese.com
DIVE INTO THE BEST NEW SUMMER BOOKS WITH BEDSIDE READING®
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I am excited that my book was featured as one of the recommended reads on Women Writers, Women Books
In Celebration of Mother’s Day, we are happy to share some ideas on how to show gratitude to the special women in your lives. You’ll find delicious recipes for a delightful Breakfast in Bed and we’ve selected our favorite ESPA gift sets to help your mom unwind and refresh. Author Jo Giese reminds us in her lovely book, Never Sit If You Can Dance, to savor and be thankful for the experiences we had with our moms. We are pleased to extend a complimentary copy of her book.
Interview with Armed With A Book
Jo sits down with Armed With A Book’s Kriti Khare to review the impact of her book
Interview with Mary Jones on her show, Morning Magazine: All About Women, on WENG RADIO
Malibu Library Speaker Series
In Photo: Jo Giese Amy Trulock, Malibu Library, Lou Spirito
Showcase: Local Author Series is an extension of the Malibu Library Speaker Series, this program features published authors who live and write in Malibu.
Featured Authors: Jo Giese and Louis Spirito
Jo Giese is an award-winning radio journalist, author, teacher, community activist, and former TV reporter. In her memoir Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother, Giese examines the delicate and complicated relationship between mothers and daughters.
Louis Spirito’s novel Gimmie Shelter examines an unlikely bond between a man and a pit bull and the intricate relationship that saves them both.
Who among us hasn’t said, “I could write a book about my mother!” We often say such things in jest, though the quip’s foundation is actually complimentary. We study our mothers throughout most of our lives trying to piece together the enigmatic variables that result in their particular formula. For many, it takes a lifetime, yet author Jo Giese has done just this in her delightful book, Never Sit If You Can Dance, which, as you might suspect, is a line she learned from her mother.
It is baby-boomer times, simpler times that began in innocence only to explode into the roar of changing times, and author Jo Giese is raised by a stay-at-home mom named Babe. She plans to rise above her mother’s station and believes she has actually done so until later years give her the time to pause and reflect…
Goodreads’ Book Review
The Write Reviewer’s Book Club
live interview on Write Review Facebook Page
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“Never sit if you can Dance”: Lessons from a mother” by Melissa Loveridge Ruckus editor
Jul 5, 2019
The Daily Courier feature for Mother’s Day
LA Review of Books: A Mother’s Day Tribute with Jo Giese
Vroman’s Bookstore Present Jo Giese in Conversation with Chris Erskine - May 9th
My interview with my alma mater, University of Texas-Austin, about my new memoir and my experiences in journalism.
Woman’s Day Magazine May 2019 Issue
Larchmont Buzz article by Patty Lombard: Lessons from Our Mothers
Author Jo Giese (left) with Ebell President Ginger Barnard, signed her book “Never Sit When You Can Dance,” filled with lessons she learned from her mother.
“Never sit if you can dance,” that’s one of the lessons author and journalist Jo Giese learned from her mother and shared with members and guests at the Ebell of Los Angeles earlier this week. Giese took the expression as the title of her book, which grew out of conversations with her mother that helped her appreciate the profound impact our mothers have on each of our lives.
Giese said she wrote the book as a gift for her mother and “all mothers everywhere who laid the groundwork that shaped us, even if we didn’t exactly recognize it or appreciate it — or them — at the time.”
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Monday Luncheon at The Ebell of Los Angeles
CBS Austin “We Are Austin” Local author's new book explores Mother-Daughter relationships
Never Sit If You Can Dance - Pub Day at Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood, CA (April 23, 2019)
94.1 KPFA’s Cover to Cover Open Book: Jovelyn’s Bistro
Jovelyn Richards talks to author Jo Giese about the lessons Jo learned from her mother Babe as written in Giese’s memoir, “Never Sit If You Can Dance”. Jo Giese is an awarding-winning radio journalist, author, teacher, community activist and former TV reporter.
