481 Love, Loss + the Power of Service with Kimberly Williams-Paisley
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is Kimberly Williams-Paisley, someone I met decades ago when I was a talent agent. We reconnected a few years ago, but it has been so fun to watch her flourish. What's amazing about Kimberly is how down-to-earth she is all these years later. She is so giving and her joy is infectious.
She joined me on the show to talk about her journey with her mom, who was diagnosed with Primary Progressive Aphasia, a rare type of dementia. Kimberly candidly shares her family's struggles and how she embraced the changes in her mother despite the challenges they all faced.
We also chat a bit about Kimberly's acting career and how being famous affected her. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to a very special episode of the Terri Cole Show. |
| 0:07.7 | Many of you may or may not know that I was a talent agent a long time ago. |
| 0:14.0 | And during that time, like decades ago, one of my clients was Kimberly, a young actress |
| 0:20.4 | called Kimberly Williams, who's now called Kimberly Williams Paisley. |
| 0:25.9 | As we were working together, this is when she got her first big film, Father of the Bride, |
| 0:31.6 | and I've been watching her career in all of the good works that she's been doing in the world. |
| 0:36.8 | And I guess we connected over the pandemic, sort of reconnected, but it was easy for me to sort of |
| 0:43.3 | follow her career. So if you are not familiar, she is an actress. She's a New York Times best-selling |
| 0:49.2 | author. She's an Alzheimer advocate and the co-founder of a non-profit with her husband, |
| 0:55.2 | Brad Paisley, who is a country singer. They founded a non-profit for a food insecurity |
| 1:04.4 | in Nashville where they're providing food for lots of people. She's worked for many years. She does |
| 1:10.2 | TV and films. She was in all the father of the bride films. She's got things that she's doing |
| 1:15.4 | right now. She has something out right now with it's called Doggone Opposite Rob Lowe. |
| 1:21.2 | She did a Christmas movie with her sister Ashley. I know her as well. She was on a long-running |
| 1:26.8 | sitcom called According to Jim, the Jim Belushi for eight seasons. But the thing that's so |
| 1:31.7 | incredibly special about Kimberly Williams Paisley is that she has remained such a decent |
| 1:40.0 | person and giving back has always been an incredibly big part of her platform and what she does. |
| 1:46.6 | So she wrote this amazing book in 2016 about her mother's struggle, her fight with Alzheimer's, |
| 1:52.8 | called Where the Light Gets in, losing my mother only to find her. Again, it was the New York Times |
| 1:57.7 | best-seller and really gave so many families permission to ask for help. And it really became |
| 2:05.8 | this incredible resource. Every single year, she has an annual party in Nashville. It's a dance |
| 2:14.3 | party called End Out. So for Alzheimer's. And with Kim, if you don't follow her on Instagram, |
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