Family Ties

Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive

American Public Media

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We’ve all had that one big question in our lives that looms over us and keeps us up at night.
Maybe you are making a life altering decision about a relationship; whether to get into one, get out of one — or stay in one. Maybe you’re one step away from leaving a job, or taking a new one. Or maybe, like our host Tonya Mosley, you are trying to figure out if you should start a relationship with your estranged father’s family.
What should you do when faced with a big “what do I do” moment?
In this final episode of Truth Be Told, we get personal with author Casey Gerald who teaches us that no matter the question, the answer can be found by asking yourself: “What would I do if I weren’t afraid?”
Why the Death tarot Card?
If you are new to tarot the Death card can seem really scary, but fear not – it’s actually not a bad omen. The Death card signifies rebirth, transformation, and the ability to leave behind that which is not serving you. These changes won’t be easy or painless, but as we learn in the final episode of Truth Be Told, the decisions we make and the dreams we chose to follow have a cost, but if we forge on, that costs are worth it.

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0:00.0	From K-QED.
0:02.0	There's this memory I have of me, my childhood friend Monique, and a popular amusement
0:09.2	park in Sandusky, Ohio.
0:11.8	Do you remember the Cedar Point trip and how we wanted to go to
0:16.4	Cedar Point? Well is this the trip that John Sally sponsored? I think so.
0:21.4	John Sally was an NBA player with the Detroit Pistons.
0:25.0	And at the time, they were the hottest team in the country.
0:28.0	Monique and I were about 13 years old.
0:31.0	Okay, absolutely, because I remember going to the John Sally
0:35.5	Cedar Point trip. Right, but we didn't have any money. Right. So we decided to
0:41.1	write our dads. The two of us got out our pins, some single ruled paper,
0:46.0	and a few markers to draw flowers and hearts and stuff
0:49.0	and wrote our fathers a letter.
0:51.0	The thing is, we never even met our dads. I just remember us
0:56.0	having this heart-to-heart talk about it. Like you were, we wanted to go to Cedar Point,
1:01.2	but we might have been talking about our dads before then, or we
1:04.9	thought up this idea.
1:06.7	They never do anything for us, so the least they could do is to shut up it's go to Cedar Point
1:12.1	to this amusement park, right?
1:15.0	But my dad actually did respond.
1:17.0	How amazing is that though?
1:18.0	Because of course mine didn't respond.
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