205: What Is Your Secret? w/ Dani Shapiro

Be Here For A While

Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Secrets involve a level of shame and a need to protect something or someone or yourself but they rarely, if ever, go unknown. The truth almost always comes out and while it might be scary, knowing the truth, that truth no matter how painful, is your true jumping off point for healing, self discovery, and power. My guest today is Dani Shapiro an author who has written 10 books and the host of the incredibly popular podcast Family Secrets. On each episode of FAMILY SECRETS, Dani and her guest explore astonishing family secrets and uncover the extraordinary lessons the truth can teach us. The show strikes a chord with a wide audience because we all have family secrets, and while discovering them can initially be terrifying or traumatic, it also has the power to liberate, heal and even uplift us. Dani’s own story, involves a family secret that she discovered in her 50s. It was finding out that everything you believed about yourself is a lie. In the spring of 2016, Dani took a DNA test on a whim — and the results turned her life upside down. The man who raised her was not her biological father, and the story she had been told, about who she was and where she came from, simply hadn’t been true. Her memoir about the experience, Inheritance, is a book about secrets that touches upon themes of identity and family history, and the science and technology that have outpaced not only medical ethics but also the capacities of the human heart to contend with the consequences of what we discover.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello friends how are you
0:18.0	How are you welcome back to the episode of be here for a while today's episode of be here for a while today's episode of be here for a while is brought to you by Stamps.com, Raycon, and Pros.
0:27.0	Again, all things that are going to come in so much handy right now during the lockdown.
0:35.0	How are you guys doing?
0:37.0	How are you?
0:38.0	Please let me know.
0:40.0	I just want to communicate, you know?
0:42.0	I really hope that you're all staying safe and
0:44.7	healthy and happy and loved and I know it's such a scary time and I just want you to
0:50.3	know that I'm thinking of all of you and sending you every ounce of love that I can and
0:54.8	that I'm also just super appreciative of you. Considering I can't tour during this time,
0:59.8	this is my only main job and I can't tell you enough how grateful I am for your
1:04.4	listens and support and positive reviews and friendship that I feel like I have with
1:09.2	you messaging with you on Instagram and just checking in and yeah so I just want to say thank you endlessly and
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1:25.2	review, it would mean the world to me.
1:28.6	Okay, I am really excited about this podcast, admittedly very nervous to record it.
1:35.0	So secrets involve a level of shame and a need to protect something or someone or yourself but they rarely if ever go unknown and the
1:46.9	truth almost always comes out and while it might be scary knowing the truth that
1:51.6	truth no matter how painful it is is your true jumping off
1:55.0	point for healing, self-discovery, and personal power. And my guest today is
2:01.0	Danny Shapiro.
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