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🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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35 year old Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy, wrote a beautiful, impassioned essay in The New Yorker this weekend and we encourage everyone to please take a moment to read it. This young mother of 2 found out on the day she gave birth to her daughter last year, that she was dying, and sadly adding to a long list of tragedies her family has endured over the years. As we all get caught up in the stressful holiday season, Schlossberg’s story, her fight and her perspective will refocus your thoughts and recenter your heart.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. It is Sunday, November 23rd, and we are hopping on because we have a reading |
| 0:12.4 | assignment for you. Whatever you do, take the time. Certainly, if you can't do it today, |
| 0:17.8 | do it in the next couple days, and read the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg. |
| 0:24.2 | She is the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy Jr. |
| 0:29.5 | And in that essay, she let us know that she has been given less than a year to live. |
| 0:35.4 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:38.4 | The headlines in a lot of places said that the granddaughter of JFK has terminal illness. |
| 0:47.1 | And that's true. But so many of the articles, nothing tells this story better than she |
| 0:52.9 | tells it in her own words. |
| 0:54.5 | I was so moved by her vulnerability, by the way she described how she is living, what she's |
| 1:03.8 | been through. And my God, when you read how and when it happened, she was 34 years old in the |
| 1:10.2 | hospital giving birth to her daughter and her whole |
| 1:12.7 | world turned upside down. And I think, you know, in terms of the timing of this article, we are now, |
| 1:19.1 | everyone's gearing up for family and food. And yes, it's fun, but it's stressful and people get to |
| 1:25.6 | complaining about, I got to do this, and |
| 1:28.4 | Aunt Deborah said that. |
| 1:30.2 | And this article puts your life and why we're here into total perspective. |
| 1:36.8 | I mean, I would dare anybody to read this article and not have a better day than you |
| 1:42.3 | planned. |
| 1:42.7 | And what I mean by that is you cannot go through your day and not |
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