Heart to heart with with Nancy, 9/11 widow and mother
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I sat down with dear family friend, Nancy Shea, and ask her questions about her experience in the tragedies of 9/11, now 20 years ago, when she was suddenly widowed as a mother of four children ranging in age from 14-7 years old. Nancy's husband, Joe, and his younger brother, Dan, were working together in the World Trade Center and were both murdered in 9/11. Listen as Nancy shares not only the events that occurred that terrible day, but also her pieces of wisdom and incredible perspective she has on life and parenting in the wake of such horror. Nancy has been a source of inspiration to many people and, now as a parent myself, I admire her more than ever.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to big time adulting the podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host, Caitlin Murray, and I'm here to take it deep with you on adulthood, womanhood, motherhood, and whatever other things end in hood that we can think of. |
| 0:15.0 | It's going to be real, it's going to be honest, and we are going to laugh until a little pee comes out. |
| 0:21.8 | If you've been looking to find a podcast to relate to as a woman and a mom and you're kind |
| 0:26.4 | of awesome, which you definitely are, subscribe now. |
| 0:35.3 | All right, here we are. |
| 0:39.5 | Welcome back, friends. |
| 0:45.7 | This week's episode is especially special to me. |
| 0:53.6 | Something I've been thinking about for a long time, this interview with our family friend, Nancy Shea. |
| 0:56.4 | I have Nancy here today. Nancy, let me say hi. Hi. Hi. And Nancy is an incredible woman for many reasons, but she has an exceptional story |
| 1:08.0 | and life event that she's been through. And just to give a little background on |
| 1:13.3 | that, Nancy lost her husband, Joe Shea, in 9-11. And Joe was best friends with my husband's father |
| 1:22.9 | and Nancy and my mother-in-law remain very good friends as well as my father-in-law. |
| 1:31.1 | But here they are these friends raising their young families alongside each other when Joe |
| 1:37.9 | was tragically taken from his family 20 years ago this past September, which is just |
| 1:43.9 | insane that it's 20 years. And I never |
| 1:47.7 | had the chance to meet Joe. And like Mike and I will play this game sometimes, like, who do you |
| 1:52.7 | wish you could ever have dinner with? And my answer is often Joe Shea because your family is just so |
| 1:58.5 | incredible and you are just so incredible. And, you know, it can't go without |
| 2:02.7 | mentioning that Joe also lost his brother that day, Dan Shea, who was working in the tower with Joe. |
| 2:09.2 | And at that time, Nancy had four children, has four children, but their ages at the time, |
| 2:15.0 | from youngest to oldest were 14, 12, 10, and 7. |
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