Everything Happens with Kate Bowler Lemonada

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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How do you think about faith and hope when your prayers aren’t answered? What about when they are? 

Steph and her husband, Rivs, have the kind of story you might see in a blockbuster movie. Rivs was a professional endurance athlete who was suddenly put on life support with a mysterious lung disease. But then a confluence of shocking events occurred to get him the care he needed to survive.

Steph grew up as part of the Church of Latter Day Saints, a faith that believed that if she prayed hard enough, miracles would happen. But then her dad died when she was 14. So how does she understand faith and hope and miracles after Rivs' survival? 

In this conversation, Kate and Steph discuss:


    How do you talk to kids honestly about life and death and hope?
    How pain is a conduit for empathy 
    How to allow things to just suck and not feel pressure to find any brightsides
    How to think about faith, hope, and miracles without idolizing certainty 

Steph is someone who knows intimately that life sometimes just happens and that we have to learn to live alongside all of that pain and that joy and that love that somehow coexists.

CW: cancer, death of a parent

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If you're feeling like everything in your life is spilling over everywhere, maybe we could learn to bless the narrowness of our lives. The fact that sometimes we need to rein it in or maybe shut some things down and then bless what is. Here's a blessing for an overwhelming day.