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Kelly Corrigan Wonders

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Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Getting the call, drafting a talk, practicing in the mock studio, dinner at Chris Anderson's with all the other speakers...it's a wild ride. Here's the backstory of TED 2024.

(And here's the link to Kelly's TED talk on the occasional need for extraordinary bravery in family life -- please post or share with every brave and loving person you admire.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi everybody.

0:05.0

This short segment is what we call for the good of the order.

0:11.0

It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that,

0:15.0

where someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

0:26.2

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world

0:31.8

that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

0:34.0

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

0:39.0

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

0:45.2

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

0:51.4

on a more regular basis.

0:53.5

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders a little bit of the backstory of my whole 2024 Ted main stage experience.

1:17.8

I had never been to the conference before.

1:20.2

Of course I'm hugely aware of it and had watched 150 TED Talks before I got there and I just thought

1:26.6

it would be fun to share how I even got asked to do it, how I came up with a topic, what the process of drafting and

1:35.8

editing look like, and then some funny behind the scenes stuff that happened

1:41.2

along the way. So here is the audio from an

1:45.0

Instagram Live that I did the day the TED Talk went live.

1:51.2

I am hopping on to give you a little backstory about the TED experience. I had never

1:59.4

done it before and I had tons of curiosity and I just wondered if you guys might have a similar set of questions that I had.

2:09.4

So I thought I would give you the whole story of how it came to me a little bit about how I thought about the talk

2:15.0

what I screwed up along the way and then how it all seems to me now in light of losing my mom, which my mom was very alive and well when I was working on this project.

2:28.3

So the way it works or the way it worked for me is that this tiny woman is very bright named Corey reached

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