Going Deep with Chasten Buttigieg on Rupture & Repair

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Kelly talks with Chasten Buttigieg, teacher, advocate, and husband of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. The conversation goes deep into Chasten's coming out story, no easy task in his conservative, Catholic, rural Michigan family. His greatest fears were losing family connections and never finding the kind of acceptance we all need. The episode highlights the principles and practices of rupture and repair, emphasizing the importance of unconditional love, communication, and ongoing growth.

Please note there is a reference to suicide in this episode.

Check out Chasten's book called I Have Something to Tell You: A Memoir.

You can find Kelly's previous interview with US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg HERE.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
0:05.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan and this week I'm wondering about the principles
0:10.0	and conditions that make repair possible between people and conditions.
0:15.0	and populations and institutions.
0:16.5	My thought partner today is Chastin Budajaj
0:19.0	the husband of Pete Budajajev,
0:21.4	the head of our Department of Transportation and a former
0:24.2	guest on this show. I wanted to talk to Chasten about some of the hardest
0:28.6	conversations he's had within his family. He's from a Catholic family in rural Michigan and our conversation
0:36.0	explores the challenges he faced coming out of the closet as a gay man, the fears he had
0:41.4	of losing his family connections which he so deeply valued and
0:45.1	the eventual path he found to repair an acceptance. So please join us for a very
0:52.2	moving conversation with Chastin Budajaj.
0:55.8	We'll be right back with Kelly Corrigan Wonders. Female athletes have always needed grit and talent, but for decades they've also needed needed a certificate to prove that they were actually women
1:16.6	according to different definitions.
1:18.9	And even now, they're still being checked and questioned.
1:23.0	Their story is the newest podcast series from
1:25.2	CBC and NPR's embedded.
1:27.6	It's called Tested.
1:29.0	Listen now. You're going to. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wunders. My guest today is Chasten Budajaj. He's a teacher and a speaker and an advocate. He's also the author of a New York Times best-selling book called,
1:54.6	I have something to tell you.
1:56.4	I first connected with Chastin
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