198 - How One Person Can Make A Difference: Nicholas Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn Discuss Tightrope

The Marie Forleo Podcast

Marie Forleo

Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Can one person really make a difference? According to research, YES. That’s what Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discovered as they looked at the problems facing America’s working class in their new book, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. Watch this interview to learn concrete ways you can make a difference on some of the world’s toughest issues — the drug epidemic, poverty, unemployment and inequality. You’ll hear inspiring stories and research-based solutions that are working in communities around the world right now. Best of all, you’ll be reminded that you’re more powerful than you think and that together, we can do anything. Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn are Pulitzer prize winning journalists who’ve coauthored the books, A Path Appears and Half the Sky. Nicholas Kristof is well known for his work as an op-ed columnist at the New York Times and you’ve probably heard of Sheryl WuDunn’s popular TedTalk, Our Century’s Greatest Injustice. Nick and Sheryl’s work proves how each of us can make an extraordinary difference in this world, no matter who we are or where we come from. #MarieTVInterviews #NicholasKristof #SherylWuDunn

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0:00.0	Hey it's Marie Forleo and welcome to the Marie Forleo podcast. Now if you're somebody
0:08.8	who cares about the state of the world and knows that collectively we can and must do better.
0:15.6	You are going to love this conversation.
0:18.0	So as a husband and wife duo, Nicholas Christoph and Cheryl Woudon have co-authored several books including A Path Appears and one of my
0:24.9	favorite books of all time called Half the Sky. They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in journalism in
0:30.4	1990 for their coverage of China.
0:33.0	Nick is now an op-ed columnist for the New York Times
0:35.0	and was previously Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo.
0:39.0	He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. Cheryl worked at the New York Times
0:45.4	as a business editor and foreign correspondent in Tokyo and Beijing and now works in banking.
0:50.9	Their latest book, which I love, Tight Rope.
0:53.7	Americans Reading for Hope is one of the most important and heart-wrenching books I've read
0:58.0	in quite some time.
0:59.4	I highly recommend it and it's available now. Nick and Cheryl, thank you so much for making the time right now.
1:09.0	It is such an honor to talk with you both again and to have you here on the Marie Forleo podcast.
1:13.7	Great to be with you again.
1:14.9	Oh, we're very excited, thank you.
1:16.7	So before we dive into the meat and potatoes, I want to set some context.
1:20.6	So we're fortunate enough to have a global audience listening and
1:24.0	according to our analytics it shows we've got folks in all 195 countries.
1:28.0	Since Tight Rope focuses on America I'm wondering if you can speak to why someone listening, who's outside of the U.S.
1:34.8	right now, should actually keep listening to this conversation we're about to have.
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