Actress, author, and activist Marlo Thomas burst onto the scene with her pioneering role as the star of television’s That Girl, and over the course of a groundbreaking career she has been honored with four Emmy Awards, the George Foster Peabody Award for Television Excellence, a Golden Globe, a Grammy, and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for exceptional humanitarian efforts. Inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame, she created Free to Be…You and Me, a project that became a platinum album, bestselling book, award-winning television special, and a stage show. She is also the author of six New York Times bestselling books, including the memoir Growing Up Laughing. Her new book is a collection of empowering stories about women who have reinvented themselves in extraordinary ways. 

In conversation with Tracey Matisak