Holding on to Joy
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We're revisiting the first episode of Truth Be Told to take on one of the biggest questions of our time: How can I feel joy when the world is burning?
We've witnessed uprisings demand justice for Black lives; we're still living in the grips of a pandemic that is disproportionately hurting communities of color, and every industry is being held accountable for racial justice. It feels like the world is unraveling – and yet we still want to laugh, dance, and love. Truth Be Told’s host Tonya Mosley travels to her hometown of Detroit to talk with her grandmother, Ernestine Mosley and New York Times best-selling author adrienne maree brown. The three women share captivating conversations and life lessons on how we all can and should cultivate joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Boris Kojo. My name is Adrian Marie Brown. |
| 0:03.2 | I am one of the hosts on Netflix's Queer Eye. |
| 0:05.9 | My name is Kula Pilei Sak. |
| 0:07.3 | And this is truth be told. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey everybody, this is Tanya Mosley the host of truth be told. I have a question for you. |
| 0:18.0 | How many times have you done the dance this week? You know, somebody asks you how you're doing and you really don't know what to say. |
| 0:26.7 | I mean, to say, I'm doing great. Feels really weird with all that's happening in the world and yet you're probably |
| 0:34.2 | sustaining right now because you have some joy in your life. This week we're |
| 0:39.8 | revisiting our very first episode about finding joy when the world is burning. |
| 0:45.8 | Because the reality is now more than ever, we're still searching for the answers. |
| 0:57.0 | Dear truth be told. Dear truth be told. |
| 0:58.0 | I really need your help. |
| 1:02.0 | I need your help. I need your help. I'm a woman. I'm brown. The world is not safe for people like me to walk |
| 1:21.2 | through it. Our question this week comes from Sima Yasmin. |
| 1:25.4 | Sima has seen a lot. |
| 1:27.8 | I'm a doctor, so I've seen suffering very real. |
| 1:30.1 | I've had people die in my arms. |
| 1:31.6 | I can't always be optimistic because I know how things end often. |
| 1:35.0 | She's also consumed by the vitriol and devastation she sees on her Twitter and news feeds. |
| 1:41.0 | But despite this suffering, Sima has actually found joy. She is living |
| 1:46.3 | her best life. I was just in the car with my friend the other day, filling him in and giving him an |
| 1:51.6 | update on my life and how happy I am and book deals and all these amazing things and then I was like wait |
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