Everything Happens with Kate Bowler Lemonada

Today, we are re-airing one of our favorite episodes.  

 

Bryan Stevenson (founder of the Equal Justice Initiative) is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable among us.

In this episode, Kate and Bryan discuss: 


The hope that motivates Bryan in this slow, sometimes frustrating work of justice
What it means to be a ‘stonecatcher’ (and why it serves both the one being condemned and the one doing the condemning)
The power of forgiveness, maybe especially toward those who don’t deserve it 

CW: discussion of slavery, lynching, and other racist violence, death row

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I am in the habit of blessing, which is different than our culture’s desire to use #blessed: “Everything is wonderful. Isn't that sunrise fantastic?!”

But what if we say that this can be hard and true and perhaps beautiful, maybe all at the same time? This is a blessing for our limited, beautiful, unfinished lives.

Living in uncertainty can lead to a sense of languishing. How do we wake up from this feeling?

Katherine May has written gorgeous books like Wintering and Enchantment that help us better understand how to live wide-awake to the world around us. 

In this conversation, Kate and Katherine discuss: 


How we move from languishing to enchantment
Why we need community more now than maybe ever
Why we both hate gratitude journals

 

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Bozoma Saint John is a successful marketing executive, but she is also a woman who knows the rollercoaster of profound love and deep loss. She shares her hard-won wisdom and complicated grief as she faced her husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis. 

In this conversation, Kate and Bozoma: 


Give us permission to tell the whole truth (even when it isn’t a neat)
Speak honestly about the complicated realities of caregiving 
Discuss how our roles change within families from daughter to parent or spouse to caregiver
Describe anticipatory grief 

CW: adult language, death of a child during pregnancy, death of a spouse

 

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In this conversation, Kate and Anna discuss:


How conversations might engender the intimacy we need to get by
Fostering the right interpersonal and listening skills it takes to approach a difficult topic (especially when you’re feeling nervous)
Best practices for responding to someone’s hard news
How learning to listen might bridge differences of all kinds

What do we lose when we don’t talk about hard things? And what might we gain if we do?

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Comedian Iliza Shlesinger is refreshingly candid, especially about things many women can relate to, like the sheer exhaustion that comes from juggling life's demands (dare we say, it's like a badge of honor?), pregnancy loss—a topic that often remains in the shadows, and how our accounts of self-care really go off the rails when bubble baths become the solution to all of life’s problems. 

In this conversation, Kate and Iliza address: 


A plan to make laughter a national healthcare plan (just kidding)
How comedy connects us with one another
Redefining self-care into something a little more practical

This conversation is brought to you by Aspen Ideas: Health and was recorded on location in Aspen, CO.

CW: miscarriage

 

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