Checking In w/ Marisa Renee Lee
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Marisa are grieving with love. Marisa shares how she coped with her mother’s death, which led her to writing her recently released book, Grief is Love. Grief is not limited to the loss of a life and Marisa helps us to relieve any guilt we may be feeling in our grief process. CHECK IN to this episode if you’ve ever lost a loved one.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:32.8 | The Transformation we each undergo after experiencing a loss is the indelible imprint of the people we love on our lives, which is the meaning of legacy. |
| 0:46.6 | This episode is dedicated to you or to someone close to you that is still navigating the loss of a loved one, a job, a relationship, and you're still grieving. |
| 0:49.5 | And you feel like there's a timeline to grief. |
| 0:56.7 | You feel like you have to show up smiling even though you're sad, even though you're grieving. Grieving is just not a straight line. You guys, this episode, it's near and dear to my heart, it's near and dear |
| 1:08.8 | to a few of the producers of this podcast checking in. |
| 1:13.8 | And this young lady, former managing director of my brother's keeper alliance, founder of the Pink |
| 1:20.2 | Agenda, which is an organization dedicated to raising funds for breast cancer care. |
| 1:25.7 | She's been a regular contributor to glamour, Vogue, CNN, |
| 1:30.3 | and author of her new book, Grief is Love. Please welcome Marissa Renee Lee. |
| 1:39.3 | Thank you so much for having me. I am super excited to be here. |
| 1:44.3 | I've been a huge fan of yours since high school when we were trying to sneak into clubs on the weekends. |
| 1:50.6 | So thank you. |
| 1:52.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:52.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:53.0 | I know this is going to be a really fun conversation. |
| 1:55.4 | It's going to be a fun conversation. |
| 1:58.1 | Although we will be discussing what can be a heavy topic, grief. We know the past |
| 2:04.0 | two years of us trying to live and survive during this pandemic. We've grieved so many types of |
| 2:11.2 | losses. What is your take on grieving losses that aren't necessarily the death of a loved one. We lost a lot. |
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