Episode 85: Kate Bowler
That Sounds Fun with Annie F. Downs
Annie F. Downs
4.9 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What a joy to have such a strong, insightful, and fun woman on the podcast with us today! Kate Bowler is a brilliant writer and communicator and we really dig into some of the hard things going on in her life right now. This conversation is special. For sure. She's honest and kind and a real joy to hang out with. Her new book, Everything Happens For A Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, really moved me and is worth the read. You're gonna love being friends with Kate.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, welcome to another episode of that sounds fun. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm your host Annie F. Downs and I'm so glad to be here with you today. |
| 0:13.7 | The music in the background, as you know, it's from our buddy Dave Barnes. |
| 0:16.5 | I hope you will check out his new album. |
| 0:18.6 | It is one of my very favorites and so fun for the summer. |
| 0:21.8 | My friend that we have on the show today, I have been trying. |
| 0:24.9 | We've been trying for a couple of months to get her on the show. |
| 0:26.9 | We probably know of her. |
| 0:28.4 | Her name is Kate Boller. |
| 0:29.8 | She is an author and a professor. |
| 0:33.1 | She's just incredible. |
| 0:34.8 | Her most recent book, Everything Happens for a Reason and Other Lies I've Loved. |
| 0:40.5 | It's just incredible. |
| 0:41.5 | So many of y'all read it when we did our survey in May. |
| 0:44.9 | So many of you said, have Kate Boller on the show and I wanted to tell you like, she's |
| 0:48.2 | coming, she's coming. |
| 0:50.1 | And so her book came out in February. |
| 0:51.9 | It's just done incredible. |
| 0:53.1 | It's so honest. |
| 0:54.1 | It's so personal. |
| 0:56.4 | It's really beautiful about suffering and in her life, her, she has been diagnosed with |
| 1:01.2 | stage 4 cancer and has been through a ton and is just a treat to talk to. |
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