How to Seek Truth and Find Freedom in Our Stories with Lisa Sharon Harper

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Sharon speaks with Lisa Sharon Harper, whose book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World–and How to Repair It All, is the result of thirty years of family history research. Lisa believes that there is a power in knowing your story and the story of your ancestors. Many African Americans face the challenge of gaps in their family history, origins obscured by enslavement histories. It’s when we know our stories and our truths that we can start to heal and release. Seeking and telling the truth can be like wading into troubled waters, but it’s the only way to find freedom.

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0:00.0	Hello friends welcome I am absolutely delighted to have author and speaker Lisa
0:07.3	Sharon Harper with me today and she has written a book that is so remarkable
0:11.9	it's called Fortune how race broke my family and
0:16.8	the world and how to repair it all so my goodness. I just cannot recommend this conversation highly enough. Let's dive in.
0:28.0	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:35.0	I am so excited to be joined today by author and speaker,
0:39.0	Lisa Sharon Harper.
0:40.3	Thank you so much for joining me.
0:42.1	I am just thrilled to be here, Sharon. Thank you. I am just thrilled to be here Sharon. Thank you appreciate being here. I like your middle name
0:48.3	You know a lot of people do people often call me Sharon and I always say is my mom around because that's my mom.
0:55.0	So Lisa Sharon Harper.
0:57.0	Call me Lisa, absolutely.
1:00.0	Oh.
1:01.0	Well I read your book with interest and I'm so excited to chat with you about it and to have more people introduced to your work and more people introduced to your message and it is a message that I am asked about when I say over
1:16.2	a hundred times a day that's not even an exaggeration. People want to talk about things like this nation's history, topics of race, they want to talk about these issues from the perspective of truth and reconciliation and how can we move forward as a nation.
1:41.2	And I fully believe that there is no moving forward without the truth.
1:46.2	And I'd love to hear you talk about that.
1:48.0	Amen. Well, thank you so much for first of all for bringing me on to speak with your audience and to have relationship with you for this time and I'm honored and I
1:57.4	100% agree and that's the reason why we wrote why I wrote me and myself and I wrote Fortune.
2:03.7	It was 30 years of research into my family's story.
2:06.7	It's a story that stretches back to 1682
2:09.6	and the second colony ever on American soil, the colony of Maryland.
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