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Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Gets Wise with Anne Lamott

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.710.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week on Wiser Than Me, Julia gets schooled by 70-year-old author and Sunday school teacher Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird). Julia finds solace in subtle signs from the universe and learns the importance of shutting the hell up when it comes to parenting adult children. Anne also shares wisdom on recovery, perfectionism, and falling in love at 65. Plus, Julia and her mom, Judy, explore the inevitable role reversal that comes with aging parents.   Follow Wiser Than Me on Instagram and TikTok @wiserthanme and on Facebook at facebook.com/wiserthanmepodcast.   Keep up with Anne Lamott @annelamott on Instagram.   Find out more about other shows on our network at @lemonadamedia on all social platforms.   Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium.    For exclusive discount codes and more information about our sponsors, visit https://lemonadamedia.com/sponsors/.    For additional resources, information, and a transcript of the episode, visit lemonadamedia.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Hey, we are officially back for season two of Weiser than Me, to celebrate your out of this world support for our show, I've got a fun announcement to share.

0:09.0

Wiser than Me has its very own merch. It's out now and it's fantastic. Our team has whipped up some

0:15.4

items we think you're going to love. We're kicking off the collection with a

0:18.8

beautiful wiser than made cross-body tote bag. It even has a zipper. You can never have enough

0:25.0

tote bags. Go ahead order 10. You'll think oh that's enough but it's not.

0:29.1

You'll wind up ordering more. To start shopping head over to wiser than me shop.com.

0:34.7

Lemonada. Oh aren't transitions hard? Maybe they're harder for some people than others, but I have to say for me, they are brutal.

0:51.0

My parents divorced when I was really little and I would go back and forth

0:55.6

between my mother's family and my father's family on the old Eastern Airlines shuttle and that was the granddaddy of all transitions for me.

1:05.7

It was absolutely excruciating.

1:09.3

But even run-of-the-mill transitions are rough like going to college for example I remember having a

1:15.2

moment of abject fear when my mom left me on my own with my 11 bags at Northwestern. Yeah, I brought 11 huge bags to college with me because I have

1:28.9

always traveled very light. Leaving people that I love separating, even happily separating,

1:36.0

it's just heart-rending for me.

1:38.0

So recently, my parents moved from one place to a new place,

1:42.0

and the new place is this kind of just

1:45.0

amazing wonderful cozy cottagee senior living thing which makes sense since my mom

1:51.0

is 90 and my daddy Tom is 92. My sisters and I worked so hard to help

1:56.6

them with that move. Maybe we went overboard. I mean because we were involved in

2:01.9

every design decision at the new place hiring

2:04.8

movers and contractors and picking colors and putting things away and

2:11.5

organizing and saying this out loud right now. I think we might be

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