77: When Life Gave Jeannie Gaffigan Pears
Do Something Beautiful
Leah Darrow
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Leah dives in with Jeannie Gaffigan about her new book, When Life Gives You Pears and the experience that prompted her to write it. They talk cancer (specifically, pears shaped brain tumors), hope, confronting your own weaknesses, finding peace, the Rosary, Ignatian prayer, and share much that is thought-provoking and insightful. It turns out that spending a lot of time in an MRI machine gives you a great chance to enter into prayer!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Do Something Beautiful podcast. I am your host Le Adero and I share with you |
| 0:05.7 | inspirational people who are truly doing something beautiful to make our world better. |
| 0:09.8 | We are inspired by the words of Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta who said do something beautiful for God |
| 0:16.0 | Do it with your life do it every day do it in your own way, but do it |
| 0:27.7 | Hey friend but do it. but do it. Hey friends, welcome back to the Do Something Beautiful Podcast. I am so happy to bring you another episode here. |
| 0:30.5 | Today we're talking to Jeannie Gaffigan wrote her first book. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm sure when she was thinking about writing a book or any book. |
| 0:40.0 | She's done a lot of writing. |
| 0:42.0 | She was one of the main writers in Jim's TV show. So she's not familiar with writing, but I can't imagine that she's everything she'd be writing about her own battle with a brain tumor. |
| 0:55.0 | But that is what she did. That's right. She wrote a book. |
| 0:58.0 | When life gives you pairs and in perfect comedic writing, |
| 1:02.0 | yeah, her tumor was little good. in perfect comedic writing. |
| 1:02.8 | Uh, yeah, her tumor was little the size of a pair. |
| 1:05.8 | So that's what she wrote about and how her faith and in particular the |
| 1:10.6 | rosary was a piece that she clung to and really helped her bring perspective |
| 1:17.1 | to everything. |
| 1:19.1 | Not just the life and |
| 1:25.0 | life, this was for sure, but to her family and even to deepening her prayer life and how she prayed. |
| 1:29.0 | Jeannie is a joy, she was a joy to talk with, let me tell you something this woman's a trooper okay |
| 1:35.3 | she's a trooper for many reasons of course she's a wife she's a mom at a five she's a working |
| 1:42.2 | mama she's she's just always is doing things. |
| 1:44.4 | Plus she came out of this huge like health issue. I mean, come on. But on top of all of that, |
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