Judy Woodruff: How Will We Live Our Beautiful, Terrible Days?
Everything Happens with Kate Bowler
Everything Happens Studios
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
How do we navigate life within these beautiful, terrible days? In this special live episode of the Everything Happens podcast, Kate sits down with American broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff at the historic Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington, DC to discuss Kate’s latest book, Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day! Together, they explore what it means to live through the best of days, the worst of days, and all the in-betweens.
Together, they discuss:
- The apology Kate wishes she would have gotten (and the moving story about when she did)
- How fragility unites us
- How can we be more empathetic towards people we disagree with
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Everything Happens is brought to you by booking. Yeah. |
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| 0:11.0 | This conversation is sponsored in part by Peloton. You've probably heard me talk about Peloton because they are my absolute favorite workout. |
| 0:18.0 | And spring might be a good time to recommit to a new exercise regimen. |
| 0:22.0 | Regardless of what my schedule looks like and let's be recommit to a new exercise regimen. |
| 0:22.6 | Regardless of what my schedule looks like, |
| 0:24.7 | and let's be real, life is always busy. |
| 0:27.2 | Peloton has a class that works for me. |
| 0:29.5 | I love how their hit, yoga, and biking classes are like all doable, different times, different music, |
| 0:36.4 | and then there's outdoor ones that get me outside. |
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| 0:44.0 | Oh hello. My name is Kate Bowler and this is everything happens. |
| 0:48.1 | Today I thought we might take a moment to celebrate the beautiful and the terrible, the things |
| 0:59.2 | that lift us up, and the things that we have to carry. |
| 1:04.0 | One of the great privileges of my life is to be able to create things |
| 1:09.0 | that help me bear the weight of my own life. |
| 1:12.0 | And what a gift to be able to do that way. bear the weight of my own life. |
| 1:12.5 | And what a gift to be able to do that with other people. |
| 1:17.1 | When you make something, I'm sure you've had this feeling a million times, and maybe especially |
| 1:22.2 | when you thought you couldn't do it, it always feels strange and wonderful and surreal to see it happen. |
| 1:32.1 | And maybe even gives us a chance to express something about ourselves |
| 1:35.9 | that would have otherwise remained buried. I think that's why this work has become such a core part of who I am is I get to tell the truth |
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