Kate Fagan on the Perspective Shifting Reality of Death

The Daily Stoic

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Education, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 26 June 2021

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On today’s podcast, Ryan talks to author Kate Fagan about her new book All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons, her reflections on the bond that she shared with her father and his difficult fight with ALS, the controversial issue of transgender athletes, and more.

Kate Fagan is an Emmy-award winning journalist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run. She currently writes for Sports Illustrated and co-hosts the podcast Free Cookies. Kate previously spent seven years as a columnist and feature writer for espnW, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She was also a regular panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn and host of Outside the Lines. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her wife and their two dogs.

Other books mentioned in the show: Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther

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0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice
0:23.6	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.3	We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.3	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.7	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.4	Hey, it's Ryan holiday
1:02.4	Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. It is
1:07.3	Already the depths of summer here in Austin, Texas. It is so hot. I'm in the middle of laying out my next book
1:14.8	Now so on June 16th, which is my birthday
1:18.4	I did the edits on the final
1:21.0	Pass of my next book, which is courage is calling which will come out in the fall and then
1:26.4	Because I'd started this book on June 16th last year and as it happened finished still. This is the key
1:33.8	The previous year. I thought it would make sense to start my next book
1:37.7	So the other office on the other side of this my other office is covered in note cards
1:43.2	I'm in the middle of laying out the book and
1:46.3	Sweating my balls off basically because it is so hot
1:50.6	Here and the AC at the Pandage Borge bookstore is no good. So I'm in the middle of replacing that it will be a
1:59.2	cheap
2:00.4	30 to 40,000 dollars to get new ACs in here
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