Katie Couric: The Courage to Try (and Wisdom to Know When to Let Go)

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. Her hustle and ambition not only served her career aspirations, but when faced with the unthinkable, she poured those same qualities into tireless advocacy. In this conversation, Katie and Kate discuss, The gifts (and limits) of hyper-agency The courage it takes to not fix things Why it is so scary to acknowledge our limits and our losses Katie has so much to teach us about what happens when our problems cannot be easily solved—no matter how hard we try. In this vulnerable conversation, Katie shares candidly about the lengths she went to avoid grief, but why she had to learn to face it nonetheless. We need the courage to try (and the wisdom to stop). CW: colon cancer, death of a spouse, death of a sibling, some adult language *** Find me on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Be sure to subscribe to my weekly email for bits of wisdom, prayers, free downloads, and more. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available wherever books are sold. Order your copy, today. Join us for Lent. Receive a free lenten reflection guide, here. Introducing, GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Pre-order your copy, here. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Oh hello. Anyone here is tired as I am? As committed to like or pants as I am? As horrified by the
0:06.7	news or confused about what constitutes dignity anymore? Maybe three years of a global pandemic will
0:13.4	do that to you. Oh my gosh, year three! We are going to need some fortifications, some fresh
0:20.7	supplies. In this time of endless attrition, we are going to need hope, but not shallow optimism.
0:28.9	We are going to need courage to live here, inside our actual bodies and limitations and relationships.
0:38.0	And we are going to need to tell each other the truth. Life is a chronic condition.
0:44.3	And if you already know that, first of all, I'm so sorry. That kind of understanding comes at a cost.
0:51.2	And it doesn't mean you're doing it wrong. It just means that you're human again today.
0:59.4	This is a podcast for all of us who understand that we are more limited than we may have realized.
1:06.1	Those of us who are trapped by fragile bodies, commitments, dependence, geography, and money
1:13.2	and circumstances. For many in the midst of this pandemic, life has shrunk to the size of the
1:19.5	room we're in. Everything is no longer possible. We have to learn how to build a beautiful life
1:27.5	inside new limitations. We have to learn how to find hope and courage and beauty by setting
1:34.0	aside the promises of self-help gurus, at Instagram influencers, and making peace with our beautiful
1:41.6	terrible finitude. Because there is no cure for being human. But we are all good medicine.
1:51.2	So my dears, how's that for a welcome back to our eighth season of the Everything Happens podcast?
1:57.6	I'm Kate Boller and oh, do I have a treat for you today? You are going to love this one.
2:03.6	We have a motto in my family and we got it from a cartoon on a mug that we all put our kitchen
2:12.5	pens in and it's a cartoon by Sandra Boynton and it features an elephant lying flat on the ground
2:18.5	just inundated with turkeys. Turkeys everywhere, sitting on him, pecking him, some of them just
2:24.2	looking really bored. So the cartoon in all its inspirational glory reads, don't let the turkeys
2:31.2	get you down. And it became our family motto after I, as a rather unpopular child, knew a lot of
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