Nora McInerny

Nora McInerny is an author, speaker and the host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking, which invites people to answer that question honestly. She is the author of several books, including It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too), No Happy Endings and Bad Vibes Only.

Within a few weeks in 2014 she lost a miscarriage, her father and her husband Aaron, who died of brain cancer. She founded the nonprofit Still Kickin in response, and has become one of the most widely heard voices on grief in American culture, arguing that people don't move on from loss so much as move forward with it. Her TED Talk on that idea has been viewed millions of times.