Design Matters with Debbie Millman · Design Matters Media
Lulu Miller
July 21, 2025·1 hr 22 min·5 clips
Lulu Miller describes driving through a thunderstorm, questioning if she's ethical enough to hold a microphone.
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A blunt, careful account of shame, retreat, and the uneasy work of self-understanding.
The episode follows the cost of asking hard questions, and the shame that can trail behind them when they start to feel destructive. The speaker looks back on leaving journalism, feeling out of place in that work, then turning to fiction after a breakup and a lonely stretch in…
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Press play if you want a candid reckoning with journalism, ethics, and what it costs to ask hard questions.
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