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Rise Together Podcast

104: My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me - with Jason Rosenthal

Rise Together Podcast

Dave Hollis

Business, Health & Fitness, Careers, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.611.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Although Jason Rosenthal was married to a successful writer, he never expected to be the subject of one of his wife’s essays. He certainly never expected that essay would be a personal ad Amy' wrote for him to move on after her death. This week, Dave chats with Jason about Amy’s gift in her last conversations, the first steps of grief, and life after loss. Check out Jason's book here. You can learn more about the Amy Krouse Rosenthal Foundation here. — Dave's first-ever book, Get Out Of Your Own Way, is OUT NOW! This book is for everyone, and we mean EVERYONE: women who loved Girl Wash Your Face, men who did or didn't read Girl Wash Your Face, personal development skeptics, personal development devotees, anyone and everyone who has a life and knows it could maybe get a little better if they could just get out of their own dang way! LET'S GOOOOOO! -> http://bit.ly/gooyowpod You asked for it, you got it! Coaching with Dave is here! All year long Dave is offering courses in both life and career, all designed to help you identify where you are now, where you want to go, and how you’ll get there. After working his way through Disney to become a President of Theatrical Distribution, then making the conscious decision to be an entrepreneur, Dave knows exactly what it takes to be successful no matter which direction your life - or career - takes you. Now you can have exclusive access to his experience and wisdom, with monthly challenges and actionable results! Follow this link to see what coaching can do for YOU! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, today on the rise together podcast, we have Jason Rosenfall.

0:06.3

He's an author.

0:07.7

He has a foundation that he is the board chair of.

0:10.5

He's a public speaker.

0:11.7

He is a lawyer.

0:13.9

He also, for today's conversation, happens to be a widower who became nationally known

0:19.1

after his wife wrote Days Before Her Death, a heart wrenching column in the New York Times,

0:24.8

and in which he now shares some insight about love and loss and living again in his new

0:30.2

memoir, my wife said, you may want to marry me.

0:34.5

His book shares his experience with his wife, Amy Rosenfall, who died of a variant cancer

0:41.2

and her viral essay, illuminated her desire for Jason to move forward and find happiness

0:47.3

after her death.

0:49.2

My goodness.

0:51.6

Jason, my wife said you may want to marry me.

0:53.6

Jason describes what came next.

0:55.3

His commitment to respect Amy's wish, even as he struggled with her loss, surveying

1:01.6

his life before with an after Amy.

1:04.6

Jason reminates on love, the pain of watching a loved one suffer and what it ultimately

1:10.4

means to heal.

1:12.7

Goodness gracious.

1:14.2

We will link his wife's essay in the show notes of this because it is an incredible

1:20.6

read, a heart breaking read, and I'm looking forward to this conversation because I can't

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