
Tania Luna is an author, cofounder of Scarlet Spark and co-host of the podcast "Talk Psych to Me."
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Why my family left: Tania Luna reflects on the babushkas who stayed behind in Chernobyl
October 31, 2013
In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, 350,000 people were presented with the heart-rending decision: to stay in their homes and risk exposure to radiation, or to uproot their lives and move away. The overwhelming majority left. But in today’s powerful talk, Holly Morris introduces us to a group of elderly women who returned to […]
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8 tips to make your life more surprising, from Tania Luna, Surprisologist
July 26, 2013
In today’s talk, Tania Luna shares her experience of immigrating to the United States from Ukraine as a little girl. Perfectly happy with her family’s outhouse and with chewing a single piece of Bazooka gum for a week, Luna found herself blown away by the wonders of her new country. From pizza to pennies to […]
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How I welcomed surprise and became a “millionaire”: Q&A with Tania Luna
July 12, 2012
Tania Luna, the CEO of SurpriseIndustries.com and a psychology instructor at Hunter College in New York, came to the United States as a 6-year-old immigrant from Ukraine. While she and her family thought that they were staying at a hotel when they first arrived in New York, upon returning years later, they discovered that it […]
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