1201 Melinda Blau + News and Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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I have your news and sound clips from the weekend and my conversation with Melinda begins at 35 minutes in
Award-winning journalist Melinda Blau has been researching, writing, and speaking about relationships and social trends for more than forty years. Her 16th book, The Wisdom Whisperers, is her most personal and important to date. It introduces readers to nine admirable women in their 90s and 100s whose paths to aging illuminate the joys of the journey and its roadblocks. Melinda calls these friends “my old ladies” and now, at 80, proudly joins their ranks.
Melinda first embraced the notion of “whispering” in 2000, when she met the late Tracy Hogg (a.k.a., the "Baby Whisperer"). That collaboration led to three best-selling books: Secrets of the Baby Whisperer, Secrets of the Baby Whisperer for Toddlers, and The Baby Whisperer Solves All Your Problems. In 2014, Melinda followed up with Family Whispering, the book that inspired her advice column on Huffington Post, "Dear Family Whisperer." In 2009, she covered casual relationships in Consequential Strangers.
A mother, longtime partner, grandmother, and friend to many, Melinda stands by her tag line: "If you're good at relationships, you're good at life." She has mixed feeling about social media but is always happy to have a conversation.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, hello, yeah, I am so excited to have you joining me for today's episode of Stand Up. |
| 0:08.6 | I've got a great first-time guest joining me today. |
| 0:11.4 | New York Times best-selling author, writer, and journalist, the author of 15 books, more than 400 articles. |
| 0:19.3 | This woman has spent a lifetime researching and writing about the importance of relationships. |
| 0:23.9 | She's brilliant, she's hilarious, and she's 80 years old and proud of it. |
| 0:27.3 | You are going to love my conversation with Melinda Blow. |
| 0:30.8 | It's something different. |
| 0:31.8 | It's something inspiring. |
| 0:33.3 | And I feel like it's something that affected me in a very positive way in how I think about my life, how I live it, and think about aging as well, and the importance of relationships with all different kinds of people in your lives. |
| 0:46.8 | That conversation begins at 35 minutes. |
| 0:50.3 | But of course, I've got your headlines, and I've collected all the best sound clips I could. |
| 0:55.3 | I've got some great ones for you from the weekend. |
| 0:58.2 | Lots to get to. |
| 0:59.5 | First, I do want to mention tomorrow night I'll be hosting a hangout to a watch party, really, more of a watch party than a hangout. |
| 1:06.7 | We had almost 80 people for the last debate. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm talking about the first and probably only vice presidential debate between J.D. |
| 1:13.9 | Vanser and the great Tim Walves. |
| 1:16.3 | Looking forward to that. |
| 1:17.5 | And I hope that you'll join me. |
| 1:18.7 | If you're a subscriber, you'll get an email with a link to the Zoom. |
| 1:21.5 | And we will watch it and live through it together as members of our amazing community that is growing. Welcome to new subscribers. |
| 1:30.0 | So happy to have you. And I want to announce that we are in talks with the always awesome, |
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