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CNN 5 Things

5 Good Things: Calling All Moms to the Dance Floor!

CNN 5 Things

CNN

Daily News, News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Hear why thousands of moms across the country are lining up for a night out. It’s Teacher Appreciation Week: meet the 2026 National Teacher of the Year. A two-year-old boy who was born profoundly deaf can now hear, thanks to a new FDA-approved gene therapy. An iconic TV personality just turned 100. And, how a community in Idaho celebrated a young leukemia survivor's birthday.  Sign up for the CNN 5 Good Things newsletter here.  Host/Producer: Krista Bo Polanco  Producer: Eryn Mathewson   Senior Producer: Felicia Patinkin  Editorial Support: Deborah Brunswick, Hazel Tang, Madeleine Stix, Jim Schiffman, Elliott Proctor  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, welcome. Lots to celebrate this week. We've got moms, teachers, some epic birthdays.

0:06.0

So let's dive right into the good vibes. I'm Krista Bo Polanco, and this is CNN Five Good Things.

0:11.0

We knew we were taking a gamble, but we wanted to open every door for him. I never thought this would be possible.

0:20.0

A rare diagnosis led one family

0:22.2

to a first-of-its-kind treatment that's giving new hope to children who are born deaf. Plus,

0:27.1

I think that this healed a part of our family that we didn't know could be healed after such a long

0:31.3

and devastating journey. I'm warning you now have tissues on standby for that story about a

0:36.0

community coming together to celebrate one

0:37.8

child's very special birthday.

0:40.2

And speaking of birthdays, nature's most trusted voice just had a big one.

0:44.0

We got to take a quick break, but on the other side.

0:46.0

We were wanting something like really dedicated for moms to feel connected and alive and vibrant.

0:51.7

The place where moms can feel like themselves again. Hello! Welcome to the mom dance party! We can give you three hours of fun and sometimes that

1:05.0

makes all the difference in the world to go back into mothering the next day. Yes, I am a mom.

1:10.0

Yes, that's part of my identity.

1:12.8

But it doesn't have to be the whole of my identity all the time.

1:17.0

Enter moms feeling themselves.

1:19.0

A community Sarah Batani-Sams and Elizabeth Wellington built around one pretty simple idea.

1:23.7

Moms need space to feel like people, too.

1:26.1

We were wanting something like really dedicated for moms to feel connected and alive and vibrant.

1:31.6

I think we get so disconnected from our physical bodies if you've given birth.

1:37.6

And dance is one way that we can kind of get out of our heads and really reconnect.

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