Welcome to all there is.

Wherever you are in the world and in your grief, I'm glad you're here.

My guest today is a politician, but we aren't talking politics.

Gavin Newsom is the governor of California.

In 2002, his mom, Tessa, left him a voicemail.

Gavin, if you want to see me, she said, you should probably do so before Thursday,

because that's going to be my last day on

Earth. She'd been battling breast cancer for four years and had decided to die by doctor-assisted

suicide, which was illegal in California. Newsom was by his mom's bedside when she died. He's written a book

about his life called Young Man in a Hurry, a memoir of Discovery.

I spoke to him last week.

You had a really interesting childhood and a really strange bifurcated existence, a lot of different rates.

Yeah, my father just took off, was sort of broken by two campaigns for a local office.

He ran for two offices back-to- back, lost, spent the money he had. He said he had basically a nervous breakdown later.

But the extent to which your dad and your mom did not talk about stuff with you.

Never. And I didn't even know why they got divorced. I never knew that story about my dad until I discovered some audio recordings that were done

that my dad did near the end of his life with other family members.

And I listened to them.

And I'm like, this explains everything.

Not only does it explain the thing that ever talked about, mom and dad never talked about

the reason they divorced, but also explained why my mom was so aggressively insistent that I not get into politics.

And she never expressed why. She just constantly pushed me away from politics. And to understand

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