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Rev. angel Kyodo williams is a Zen Buddhist priest, and she says that her spiritual journey started when she was a child, after someone close to her let her down. In that moment, she realized that she needed to have compassion for this person and, in a way, let them off the hook. âLetting them off the hook is not saying⊠âOh, it's okay that they did that,ââ she tells Tim. âBut it is part of the fabric of what it means to be human and alive. And I get to continue to love them, not despite, but because of all of those missteps and mistakes.â
Rev. angel is a spiritual leader and an activist, someone searching for compassion and change at the same time. While working in social movements fighting against homophobia and racism, she noticed that conflict and frustration was eating her comrades alive. âWe couldn't get things done because everybody was fighting with each other, because that's what we practiced,â she said. Now, Rev. angel teaches others how to âconflict well,â as she calls it. She thinks we can organize with love, while looking to the future for bigger solutions.
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Rev. angel Kyodo williams is a Zen Buddhist priest and author of âRadical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberationâ and âBeing Black: Zen and the Art of Living With Fearlessness & Grace.â Her newest project is called the Healing Race Portal, what she calls the culmination of all her work. You can learn more at healingraceportal.com.
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âWhat is our responsibility to one another?â
âHow do we create a culture that prioritizes community and the virtues it requires?â
âWhat kind of world do we seek to create together, for ourselves and our children?â
These are the fundamental questions Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy poses to all of us in his âParting Prescription for America,â released publicly yesterday. Motivated by a quest to understand the deeper roots of despair heâs witnessed across America during his nearly 10 years of service, Dr. Murthy outlines four essential components of fulfillment and our overall well-being: relationships, service, purpose, and love. These elements are also core to building community, he shares with Tim in this episode.âIf you can help people feel like someone does care about them, that they do belong⊠If you can give people the opportunity to connect by joint actions of service or by helping one anotherâŠ[these small things] help us change culture.â
As Dr. Murthy prepares to leave his role as Surgeon General later this month, his charge to the nation is simple. Focus on the small things. âMake five or 10 minutes to reach out each day to somebody [you] care aboutâŠlook for one thing [you] can do each day to help somebody in [your life]. These things might seem small, butâŠfor people who are struggling with a sense of despondency and despair, small moments can be lifelines,â Dr. Murthy says. âIt's like dropping a pebble in a pond. They generate powerful ripples. Each person that you help is then more likely to go off and help somebody else.â
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Dr. Vivek Murthy served as the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States, first under President Obama and later under President Biden, and as Vice Admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
He led the nation's response during a number of public health challenges including Ebola, Zika virus, and the opioid crisis where he helped our nation see addiction as a chronic illness instead of as a character flaw. His work challenged us to notice the impact of social isolation and loneliness on America's physical, spiritual, social, and mental wellbeing. Most recently, he made headlines with his research linking alcohol and cancer.
Learn more about Dr. Murthyâs public health initiatives and groundbreaking work on his website, vivekmurthy.com and read his latest report at surgeongeneral.gov/community.
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When Dr. Anita Phillips was a kid, she didnât understand why God wouldnât heal her sisterâs pain. She didnât know then, but her sister Valerie had a severe mental illness, one that couldnât be solved with her familyâs prayers alone. Growing up, there was a sharp divide between Dr. Anitaâs Christian background and mental health. In her community, â...if you went to therapy, it must mean that you didn't have enough faith,â she told Tim. That tension set her on a path to become a trauma therapist and a minister, someone who can support both our mind and our spirit. âI come alongside people of faith and help them improve their experience with God,â she said. Dr. Anita sees caring for your emotional health as being deeply connected to what we believe about the world and ourselves. And if we neglect our emotions, it can become a kind of âspiritual bypassingâ where we try to avoid our feelings, hoping that they will go away, only to have them manifest in other ways. âEmotions donât last forever, but they will wait foreverâŠeventually that pain will find its way out,â says Dr. Anita.
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Dr. Anita Phillips is the host of the podcast âIn the Light with Dr. Anita Phillipsâ and the author of âThe Garden Within.â You can follow her on social media using the handle @dranitaphillips.
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Reverend Jen Bailey comes from a long line of Black women who âmade a way out of no way.â As a young girl encouraged by church mothers who âmade spiritual work come alive,â Jen discovered God was both a heavenly being to be revered and a confidant she could trust with hard questions about her daily life and reality.
Today, Jenâs work is grounded in the belief that faith matters for action, and action manifests faith, both in her life as a preacher, a writer, and as an advocate for justice. In 2014, she founded Faith Matters Network, which supports faith leaders, community organizers, and social activists with the tools they need to heal themselves and their communities. And she also serves on the board of several philanthropic foundations and advisory groups helping people with resources invest in the work of spiritual and social change.
On days when hope is harder to access in her work and in her life, Jen says she considers three important questions, âWhat is dying in the world? What wants to emerge? And what is already blooming beautifully?â
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Reverend Jennifer Bailey is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, a public theologian, and a leader in the multi-faith movement for justice.
She is the founder of Faith Matters Network and a co-founder of The People's Supper. You can learn more about her work and her beautiful book, âTo My Beloveds: Letters on Faith, Race, Loss, and Radical Hopeâ on her website reverendjen.com.
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Growing up in 1980s New Haven, Connecticut, Lamont Young faced many challenges including poverty, racism, and isolation. Then, at 19-years old, he was shot seven times at point blank range. Miraculously, he survived, but life after the shooting was far from easy. Lamont experienced PTSD, lived in a homeless shelter, lost custody of his kids, and turned to drugs and alcohol. He credits his motherâs unconditional love and faith for helping him release his anger and finally begin the healing process. âShe said, âIt doesn't matter what happened to you in the past, what you did in the past, what anybody ever did to you in the past....Forgive yourself.ââ
Years later when Lamont came face-to-face with his shooter, instead of seeking revenge he chose to forgive him. âWho am I to take your life after God saved my life?... And I hugged him, my mom hugged him, and she prayed for him, and we drove off and that was it.â Lamont eventually attended rehab and after recovery he graduated with a masters in psychology from Fordham University.
Today, Lamont serves a mix of youth, adults and families in his local community as a licensed mental health clinician, equipping clients with the coping skills he needed as a young man. â[I ask them] âHow can I help? What can I do to help you?â And once they start sharing, Iâll give them hope. Let them know no matter what [theyâre] going through, this is what weâre going to do together to be able to heal [them].â
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Lamont Young is a licensed mental health clinician specializing in Addiction Psychiatry. Previously, he worked at a middle school as a trauma informed therapist and at Yale Psychiatric Hospital helping transitional youth. Today, he continues to serve his community by working with a mix of young people, adults, and families.
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Scarlett Lewis remembers feeling like there was no future for her. âI literally had this thought that I was going to dissolve,â she tells Tim, recounting the days after the death of her son Jesse at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting on December 14th, twelve years ago. She realized there was no playbook on how to process the murder of her son, but she knew that she did not want to be a victim, or to feel hopeless. âHopelessness is dangerous for the person feeling it and for those around them. I did not want to go down the same path as Adam Lanza. Why fight anger with anger? It doesn't do any good. It doesn't solve anything. How about fighting anger with love? That's a concept.â This idea brought her to the field of Social and Emotional Learning, or SEL. SEL gives kids tools to manage their emotions and make better choices, and Scarlett believes it has the potential to prevent violence. She built the Choose Love Movement to bring SEL curriculum to more schools, as well as prisons, workplaces, families and communities. Scarlett has been able to forgive her sonâs killer, but the pain and loss of his death is with her every day. âAnd it is that pain that drives me to do what I do every day as well.â
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Scarlett Lewis is the founder of the Choose Love Movement. You can learn more about her work at their website: chooselovemovement.org
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When Patrice Jetter and her fiancĂ© Garry Wickham met over 30 years ago at work, they instantly clicked. âThey had to separate us after a while,â Garry said. âWe couldn't sit together because⊠all weâd do is laugh.â
You can see their laughter and love for each other in the new documentary, âPatrice: The Movie,â now streaming on Hulu. It tells the story of Patriceâs life growing up as a child with a disability in New Jersey and her journey to heal from bullying, trauma and abuse. âI learned early on that I had very little control over what went on in my life,â she told Tim. In response, Patrice developed a personal philosophy of joy and positivity. She learned she could improve her day â...by just smiling or doing something to make another person laugh.â
Now 60 years old, Patrice insists on living her life exactly the way she wants. She draws and makes elaborate original costumes. She figure skates and swims with Special Olympics. But thereâs one thing sheâs still not able to do: Marry her fiancĂ© and best friend, Garry. In this episode, Patrice, Garry, and Tim discuss the laws keeping them apart, and their struggle for marriage rights for all couples with disabilities.
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Patrice Jetter and Garry Wickham are the stars of the new documentary, âPatrice: The Movieâ now streaming on Hulu. Learn more about the film by following @patricethemovie on social media. You can go to patricethemovie.com and click âTake Actionâ to send a letter to your lawmakers telling them you want the marriage penalty changed.
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Comedians, screenwriters, and best friends, Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo are âchampions of friendship.â Every year on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, they gather with seven other friends at a steakhouse in Brooklyn to vote on who had the best year. The winner takes home a âman of the yearâ trophy, a tradition that has sustained their friendship for almost 40 years.
As a response to a survey which found that 49% of Americans reported having three or fewer friends and 12% reported having zero close friends, they launched the Man of the Year podcast in late 2022. Theyâre on a mission to show men why true contentment is a byproduct of healthy relationships and how deep connections have the power to shift the trajectory of your life. On the show, they provide âFriend-Edâ (friend education), offering men advice on everything from the art of the âboyâs night,â how to support a grieving friend, and how to tell your friend âI love you.â âOne tip we give to our listeners is to start with thank you. We say, âThanks is a gateway emotion.â So you start with âthank youââŠmake your way up to âI love you.ââ Aaron Karo says.
In this episode, they model their friendship-expertise in real time, offering Tim advice on a recent friend-breakup of his own, and they make a case for why friendship might be the antidote to America's âloneliness epidemic.â âI consider our deep friendship sort of an extension of family⊠We share values, we share goals and community,â Matt Ritter says.
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Matt Ritter and Aaron Karo are comedians, screenwriters, and best friends for almost 40 years. They co-host the âMan of the Year" podcast where they help listeners make new friends, reconnect with old ones, and build lifelong social fitness. You can check out the show on Youtube or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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As a college student majoring in psychology, Dr. Rheeda Walker quickly discovered her calling after recognizing Black people were largely absent in her field. âPeople who looked like me didn't seem to be represented in the psychology texts. Not in the theories, not in the stories, not in the hypotheses, not in anything,â she says. Today, as a licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Walker focuses on suicidal ideation and the prevention of suicide and the urgency it has in Black mental health.
In 2016, she noticed a troubling pattern. Research showed that the suicide rate among 5 to 11 year old Black children exceeded the rate of white kids at the same age. Additionally, while suicide rates for white children declined, they'd actually increased for Black children. When these statistics only worsened through repeated studies, Dr. Walker knew that she had to act.
In 2020, she wrote a book called âThe Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Healthâ arguing that âin this era of discrimination, invisibility, and psychological warfare, Black people need so much more than mental health or well-being. They need an impermeable web of protection for [their minds].â Dr. Walker calls this "psychological fortitudeâ and she believes it goes beyond serving individuals. âIt's about healing the communityâŠthen we're able to not just heal ourselves, but maybe be a model for a larger society,â Dr. Walker says.
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Dr. Rheeda Walker is a licensed clinical psychologist, psychology professor at Wayne State University, and author of several books including âThe Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health.â You can find more of her work on her website rheedawalkerphd.com.
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In 1986, after two marriages, three children and a successful career, Byron Katie found herself in a downward spiral. She was so depressed she could barely leave the house and her family walked on eggshells around her. After years of feeling hopeless and isolated, she enrolled in a halfway house to get some help. And one day while she was there, she had an epiphany: our thoughts are so powerful they can create a painful reality that doesnât actually exist. This breakthrough provided the foundation for âThe Workâ or self-inquiry, a simple four-step technique.
Byron Katie models this practice, guiding Tim from anxious thoughts about the future into the beautiful reality of the present. âA fearful mind is a dangerous mind,â Byron Katie says, âso when I question what I was believing, then it shifts my world.â She says that practicing the work âleaves you freer to do important things in the worldâ by helping you live with an open mind ready to âlove the world without conditions.â
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Byron Katie is a self-taught practitioner, speaker, and bestselling author of âLoving What Is.â You can visit her website thework.com to find her book, her podcast, and upcoming events.
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Weâve all been wounded (some more than others) and âweâre all in need of recovery,â Killian Noe says. After four decades of working with people healing from all kinds of addictions, she has found that the most powerful support we can offer is a caring community where people can show up fully as themselves, without judgment.
In 2003 in Seattle, Killian co-founded Recovery Cafe, a community center that provides everything from meals to barista training to medical care to people in recovery. Guided by the truth that every human being is precious and worthy of love, the cafes appoint âministers of presenceâ whose focus isnât to fix the person in front of them but to sit with them and listen to their story. Killian talks with Tim about how presence shows up in her own life, guiding him through what she calls âa practice of return to unconditional love,â an exercise that helps her deal with shame, anger, and pain. âAt any point in the day, [I can] return to that place of unconditional love⊠where my true identity lies,â Killian says.
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Killian Noe is the founding director of Recovery Cafe. Before starting Recovery Café in 2004 with Ruby Takushi, Killian co-founded Samaritan Inns, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. which provides transitional and longer-term drug- and alcohol-free, community-oriented housing for people recovering from homelessness, addiction, and other mental health challenges. She has written about Samaritan Inns in Finding Our Way Home and about Recovery Café in Descent Into Love.
Learn how to bring a Recovery Cafe to your town or city at recoverycafenetwork.org. Killianâs team will provide the training, support and all of the community you need.
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On his hit shows âOn the Road with Steve Hartmanâ and âKindness 101,â CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman shines a light on the extraordinary human beings he meets across the country, the nuggets of wisdom they share, and the compassionate actions they take in response to the needs of those around them: a girl raising money to grant âwishesâ for local nursing home residents, popular kids ensuring students on the fringes never have to eat lunch alone, or a man who simply takes the time to sit and listen to his neighbors. âWe all need examples,â Steve says, âWe can't just be told to do these things. We need to see people doing them and see the results that they earn before we can really want to internalize it and make it part of our lives.â
In moments when the country feels especially dividedâlike this election yearâSteveâs secret is that he refuses to dwell in negativity. He believes that focusing instead on the very best in humanity, one story at a time, especially in news coverage, is the key to finding our way back to one another. âYou put seeds out there and they may not grow right away. A seed can sit in the soil for 20 years and still come up,â Steve says, âChanging our course starts with empathyâŠand helping others.â
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Steve Hartman has been a CBS News correspondent for almost thirty years. Heâs best known for his weekly feature segment âOn the Road With Steve Hartmanâ modeled after the late, great newsman Charles Kuraltâs long-running series of the same name. On the show, Steve shares heartfelt stories about the incredible people he meets as he travels around the country. With the help of two of his kids, Meryl and Emmett, he hosts a segment called âKindness 101,â airing weekly on CBS Mornings. They cover everything from purpose, altruism, gratitude, and empathy. Stories that are now being used to teach character in classrooms all around the world.
You can find more of Steveâs work on CBSNews.com and watch his stories from On the Road and Kindness 101 on the CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings YouTube channels.
Watch the stories mentioned in this episode:
Kindness 101 with Steve Hartman: How to find courage (Gerald Hodges)Kindness 101: A lesson in listening (Al Nixon)11-year-old girl grants wishes to nursing home residents (Ruby)At one high school, no one eats lunch alone (We Dine Together)Stories about dads with Steve Hartman and more (George Hartman)***
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Before running 26 marathons and winning 6 gold medals in the Special Olympics, Loretta Claiborne dealt with a lot of anger. She was bullied for her intellectual disability by both her peers and teachers. But when Loretta discovered running, she found a way to process her emotions as well as a community where she was cherished. She compares discovering her identity as an athlete to finding a new pair of pants that fit perfectly. Loretta believes that teamwork and play have a spiritual quality, one that can bring us together. âEverybody says, âOh, we're all the same.â We're not all the same. We are different. But it doesn't matter, we have a common bond,â Loretta says.
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Loretta Claiborne is runner, motivational speaker, and Special Olympics Athlete. You can find out more about her work at lorettaclaiborne.com.
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Simon Sinekâs mission is to figure out how to build a world where weâre more connected to each other through shared purpose and service. His research, which included studying businesses around the country and being embedded in the military, has brought Simon to some surprisingly simple truths. âEvery single person who is at work is a human being,â he told Tim. âAnd it turns out all human beings want the exact same things. They want to feel seen. They want to feel heard. They want to feel understood. They want to feel like they're a part of something bigger than themselves.â
His TED Talks have been seen by millions of people, and his book âLeaders Eat Lastâ is a bestseller. But his approach isnât complicated. He told Tim that if we treat people better, theyâll be more engaged and ready to treat other people better, too. That ripple effect could have world-changing possibilities. âI believe in idealism. And if you want to call me naive, I think every idealist on the planet is naive. We're so stupid to believe that we can actually build a better world⊠Idealism is naive. That is the exact point.â
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Simon Sinek is an author and host of the podcast "A Bit of Optimism". You can find out more about his work at his website: simonsinek.com
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Itâs hard to admit when weâve failed. What if weâre judged? What if our shame is too heavy to bear? Or what if weâre seen as unlovable because of what weâve done? Father Mike Schmitz believes that in order to be loved, we need to take that risk and show others our true selves, flaws included. âAs long as I hold the mask on,â he told Tim, â...as long as I say this is the version of me that I want others to see, [that] I want God to see⊠We will never let ourselves be loved.â As a Catholic priest, Fr. Schmitz sees the act of confession, also called reconciliation, as an opportunity to let go of shame and to let another person (and God) see your whole self, the good and the bad. âWhat reconciliation is meant to be is not only⊠reconciled to God, but also reconciled to the community.â
In this practice episode, we explore why the act of confession is an important practice for Catholics, and why it is a vital skill for all of us to learn.
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Fr. Mike Schmitz is the director of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Duluth and Chaplain for the Newman Center at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. He hosts "The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast" and "The Bible in a Year" podcast. You can find out more at: bulldogcatholic.com
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How do you stay in relationship with someone when you deeply disagree? Especially when the stakes are high? For Aziz Abu Sarah, Robi Damelin, and Yonatan Zeigen, Palestinian and Israeli peace activists, the answer lies in finding humor and empathy in each otherâs stories, and not avoiding the hard conversations, especially when it comes to the areas that they do agree on: an end to violence in their region, justice and equality. âI think to have an equal relationship is something very hard⊠because we live in an unequal reality, â Aziz told Tim. âThere is still an occupation, an occupier and an occupied.â
Aziz, Robi and Yonatan met through their work with The Parents Circle, which brings together Israelis and Palestinians who have lost loved ones due to violence and are pushing for peace in the region. Robi lost her son, Aziz his brother, and Yonatan his mother, Vivian, who was murdered in her home on October 7th, 2023. Even though loss brought them together, their sense of humor keeps them connected. They joke around. They tease each other. In fact, as they told Tim, being able to laugh together is essential to how they build bonds and maintain relationships while doing the difficult work of peacebuilding.
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You can find more about The Parents Circle Families Forum at their website: parentscirclefriends.org. You can find Azizâs work at: AzizAbuSarah.com.
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Michael and Nicole Phelps are experienced competitors â and winners. In 2010, Nicole won Miss California USA, and Michael is the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 Olympic Medals (23 of those gold). But the Phelps also know that winning sometimes comes at a cost.
In 2014, Michael hit an all-time low in his struggle with mental health, but he found the courage to seek help. Michael checked himself into The Meadows, a residential treatment facility in the desert of Arizona, where he spent 45 days, addressing his depression and anxiety. Michael often felt like he couldnât talk about his struggles while competing as a swimmer, but the tools he learned in treatment helped him bounce back even stronger than before. In 2015, Phelps opened up about his mental health challenges, becoming one of the first and most prominent athletes to do so. âMy last go at the Olympics, it was completely differentâŠI was basically just like, I don't care. I'm going to share and I'm going to be vulnerable. And to me it almost felt like a superpower.â
Michaelâs focus on vulnerability was not only the catalyst to his healing but it also helped restore his relationship with his then girlfriend, now wife, Nicole. Today, as strong advocates for mental health, together theyâve learned to balance high achievement with emotional well-being and embrace both wins and losses. Nicole says they use these skills to instill a sense of resilience in their four young boys. âPlease don't ever hand our children a participation trophy, because that's not how we function in this house. There is winning and there is losing. And we have to be able to understand both because you're gonna come out from both still alive, still safe, still breathing.â
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Michael and Nicole Phelps are experienced competitors and advocates for mental health. Find out more about the wonderful work theyâre doing in the world of sports and mental health by visiting their website: michaelphelpsfoundation.org.
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Author Min Jin Leeâs novels have received accolades and awards, but theyâve also gotten some horrified responses from readers. âThey would cite a page where something really terrible happened to one of my characters,â she said. âI've had people tweet at me, like, â@minjinlee, what the f**k?ââ
Leeâs characters may sometimes suffer horribly, but her writing is fueled by tenderness. âI'm going to sound so strange for saying this, but I want you to know how much I love you,â she told Tim. âI want people to know how much I love my characters and how much I love my reader.â
Even though the worlds she creates are not friendly, sanitized places, her novels are still full of beauty and empathy. Lee takes on big political questions about discrimination, assimilation, and racism. Her characters are often overlooked and oppressed. The goal is to touch readersâ hearts, so maybe, just maybe, theyâll want to be better people. Itâs not an easy task. Lee says itâs already hard enough to tell a good story. âAnd then, somehow, can I get you to do the right thing? Ooh, gosh, that's even tougher, right?â In this episode, Lee talks with Tim about how sheâs able to walk the fine line between writing complicated moral lessons and preaching at us
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Min Jin Lee is the author of âFree Food for Millionairesâ and âPachinkoâ. You can find out more about Min Jin Leeâs work at her website: minjinlee.com
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When life gets overwhelming and hard, where do you turn? Rainn Wilsonâbest known as Dwight Schrute, the ambitious, beet-loving paper salesman on The Officeâturns to âthe notorious G-O-D.â Rainnâs parents raised him in the Bahaâi faith and he put it aside in his 20s when he was a struggling actor exploring life in NYC. Years later, after finding success in Hollywood, he realized fame was not enough to calm his anxieties nor soothe the longing in his soul. So Rainn turned inward, returning to the Bahaâi faith and discovering the value that spirituality brings to us as individuals and as a community. This âspiritual revolution,â is one that Rainn sees as containing multiple religions and faith traditions, where spiritual tools such as prayer and meditation can go hand in hand. Instead of âthrowing the spiritual baby out with the religious bathwater,â as Rainn says, collectively engaging with matters of the soul will help us all find strength and deeper meaning when faced with the highs and lows of life.
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Rainn Wilson is an actor, comedian, podcast host and author of the New York Times bestseller Soul Boom: Why We Need A Spiritual Revolution. You can listen to Rainn every Tuesday on his podcast, Soul Boom, available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Weâre living in a time where disunity has taken a toll on our spirit. And now more than ever, we need connection.
As chair of Special Olympics International, as a social leader of healing from our divisions, and a key figure in the field of social and emotional learning in education, Tim Shriver has dedicated his life to serving others and building community, with the faith that we can make a greater difference if we work together. Tim believes the BEST way to connect is at the soul level â where we find each otherâs dignity and meet each other as we are.
On his new podcast âNeed A Lift?â Tim invites world-changers to share the spiritual practices and rituals that sustain and allow them to transform some of the most painful moments in their lives into purpose.
âNeed A Lift?â premieres on September 30th wherever you listen to podcasts!
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