Bonus Episode: Going Deep with Helen Fisher on Love, Sex and Connection

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Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

We learned today that one of our favorite guests, Dr. Helen Fisher, passed away recently. I first heard her name from my daughter Claire. She and her friends had discovered this 79 year old researcher on sex and relationships and were hooked on her plain spoken insights. I tuned in. She was a spectacular communicator with vetted and validated information on a super important topic. In other words, my ideal guest.

Here's where we started: the number one driver of happiness across time and culture is meaningful connection to others. So how do you get it and how do you keep it? Dr. Helen Fisher has been studying love for 5 decades. 5. That’s a lot of information. Share this conversation with the people you love. Tons of takeaways that you can integrate immediately. (Previously aired)

Take Helen’s personality quiz and figure out who you are…and who you aren’t.

Funding for this episode was provided by UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center as part of its "Expanding Awareness of the Science of Intellectual Humility" initiative, supported by the John Templeton Foundation.

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0:00.0	Today we're dropping a really special episode because one of our favorite all-time guests Helen Fisher has died at
0:15.5	79 and I must say it hit me and Tammy like a ton of bricks this woman who is a sex and relationship and love researcher
0:27.0	was brought to my attention by my daughter Claire and after the episode came
0:32.1	out it was a huge hit with listeners. And Claire and I actually went uptown in New York and met her for a drink one day between doctor's appointments for her.
0:43.0	She was a very bright light,
0:47.0	a person who carried things lightly
0:50.0	and had a huge impact on the way we understand what draws us together and what
0:57.8	pulls us apart. And as you know grief is so weird so this news of Helen Fisher dying hit me the very same day
1:06.3	that my parents house settled they had owned it for 55 years it was their one and
1:12.2	only home they were the first and only owners.
1:15.0	It's moving on to a family with three little kids and there's something about loss
1:20.5	I think that makes us more tender to other losses. So to Helen Fisher's family, I just want to be one of the many, many people who says, I adored her and she changed the way I think about very important things and she was
1:36.4	gracious and funny and eager to meet and ready to make new friends with me and my daughter over Apparall Spritzes on the Upper East Side.
1:48.2	So thank you Helen Fisher for this great conversation and for a lifetime of work.
1:54.0	Welcome back to Kelli Korgen wonders.
1:57.0	I'm Kelly Korggan and my guest today is
2:04.8	Dr Helen Fisher. She's my new favorite person. She's a biological
2:09.0	anthropologist. She is at the Kinsey Institute as a senior research fellow and she's the chief science advisor to match.com.
2:18.0	She also created a personality quiz which we'll link to in the show notes, to help people better understand themselves
2:24.4	and their partners. It's been taken by over 14 million people in 40 countries.
2:30.7	So the data set is enormous.
2:33.0	Here is my conversation with the candid, informed, and delightful Dr Helen Fisher.
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