169. Audacious Hope — A Conversation with Tim Shriver

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It isn’t easy to be born into a famous family with big expectations. And there’s few families more famous or with bigger expectations than the Kennedys. Tim Shriver’s immediate family includes not only a former US president, a US Attorney General, and a US Senator, but his parents, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, founded global humanitarian organizations like the Special Olympics, The Peace Corp, and more. But Tim has risen to the challenge in every respect and is adding a new aspect to the legacy.

In this week’s conversation with Zach Davis, Tim shares what it was like to grow up in his remarkable family, the motivation behind the important initiatives he is currently leading, and how his deeply-held Christian faith shapes all aspects of his life.

Tim serves today as the CEO of Special Olympics and is also the founder of Unite, a national grass-roots organization dedicated to transcending seemingly intractable difference. He is also a leading researcher focusing on the social and emotional factors in learning and has also produced six films, including Amistad and The Loretta Claiborne Story. He is the author of Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most, and co-editor of The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening. Tim and his wife, Linda Potter, reside in the Washington, D.C area and have five adult children.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. It can't be easy to be
0:04.4	born into a famous family with big expectations, and there are a few families
0:07.9	more famous or with bigger expectations than the Kennedys. Tim Shriver's immediate
0:12.3	family includes not only a former US president, a US Attorney General, and a US
0:16.0	Senator, but his parents Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sergeant Shriver found a
0:19.8	global humanitarian organizations like the Special Olympics, the Peace Corps, and
0:23.9	more. But Tim has risen to the challenge in every respect and is adding a new
0:27.6	aspect to the legacy. In today's conversation with Zach Davis, Tim shares
0:31.7	what it was like to grow up in his remarkable family, the motivation behind the
0:35.4	important initiatives that he's currently leading, and how has deeply held
0:38.5	Christian face shapes all the aspects of his life. Tim serves today as the CEO of
0:42.8	Special Olympics, and is also the founder of Unite, a national grassroots
0:46.6	organization dedicated to transcending seemingly intractable difference. He is
0:50.8	also a leading researcher focusing on the social and emotional factors in
0:53.9	learning, and has produced six films including Amistad, the Loretta Clayborn
0:57.6	story. He is the author of Fully Alive, Discovering What Matters Most, and the
1:02.0	co-editor of the Call to Unite, Voices of Hope, and Awakening. Tim is wife Linda
1:06.6	Potter, residing the Washington DC area and have five adult children. We're so
1:10.6	excited to share this fascinating conversation with you and we really hope that
1:13.3	you enjoy it, and with that we'll hand it over to Zach. Tim Shriver, thank you
1:16.8	so much for being here with us on the Faith Matters podcast. We're breaking
1:20.9	through you taking the time. For those who may not know that much about you and
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