88 Years of Wisdom from my YiaYia: Love, Grief & What Truly Matters in the End

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Victoria sits down with the one and only YiaYia for a heartwarming and deeply personal conversation about life, love, loss, and legacy. YiaYia shares the incredible journey that shaped her resilience, wisdom, and faith from her parents' arranged marriage in Greece to building a family in Chicago. She opens up about meeting Papou, their timeless love story, and why she never sought another partner after his passing. Plus, she reflects on grief, the power of keeping life simple, and the most important lessons she hopes to pass down to future generations. Get ready to laugh, cry, and cherish every word of this beautiful conversation with the matriarch who’s seen it all.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.3	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.1	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:44.5	Hello, everybody and welcome back to RealPod. This is such a special episode today. I'm bringing you an interview with one of my favorite people in my whole life. She is
0:56.8	literally the best. She is my shining star. She is the cutest thing I've ever seen. She's full of
1:05.1	wisdom. She's the matriarch of our family. And that is my sweet yaya. Her name is Betty Ann, but everyone calls her
1:13.3	yaya, even my friends. Aubrey grew up calling her yaya, Natalie, Max. Literally, whenever she would
1:19.1	meet someone in my life, I'd be like, this is yaya, and they'd be like, should we? And she's like,
1:22.8	call me yaya. She's just the yaya of the people. And you may have seen her already in some of my videos online on TikTok.
1:30.0	I took her to dancing with the stars last year.
1:31.8	And she got a smoot from one of her favorite dancers, Val.
1:34.9	I think that was me.
1:36.4	The first kiss she got on her cheek from a man in, I don't know, like 30 or 40 years.
1:43.2	But you'll hear about that today. I was inspired to sit down
1:46.7	with my yaya because this past Sunday was Grandma's Day. So we were all hopefully celebrating
1:52.6	the amazing grandma's yayas in our lives. Oh, I should probably tell you that I say yaya because
1:58.5	I'm Greek. I'm 50% Greek. My mom's 100.
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