Kirsten Powers: ...Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts

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🗓️ 26 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On this episode, we’ll take a look at “grace”, and explore why grace may be difficult for you to tap into. Our guest is CNN senior political analyst Kirsten Powers, who is a former political analyst for Fox News.

Kirsten is also a New York Times bestselling author, in addition to being a former columnist for USA Today, The Daily Beast, American Prospect Online and the New York Post. The Columbia Journalism Review called her Kirsten "an outspoken liberal journalist" in a sea of opposition at Fox News. Her latest book is called "SAVING GRACE: Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and Learn to Coexist with People Who Drive You Nuts".

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0:00.0	worth 10 minutes a day. That's all you need. And it's an app. So it's there for you anytime,
0:07.2	anywhere. With new mood taking care of your mental... I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. On this
0:14.0	episode, we'll take a look at Grace and explore why Grace may be difficult for you to tap into.
0:20.1	Our guest is CNN senior political analyst
0:22.7	Kirsten Powers, who's a former political analyst for Fox News. And she is also a New York Times
0:28.6	bestselling author in addition to being a former columnist for USA Today, The Daily Beast, American
0:34.6	Prospect Online, and the New York Post. The Columbia Journalism Review called her an outspoken liberal journalist in a sea of opposition at Fox News.
0:44.3	Her latest book is called Saving Grace, Speak Your Truth, Stay Centered, and learn to coexist with people who drive you nuts.
0:52.4	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:55.9	Thank you for having me.
1:05.1	Why did you decide to write the book? Well, it was honestly sort of for my own survival and self-preservation. I had gotten to a place post-2016 election, really around the beginning of 2019.
1:15.3	It had started before that, but I would say it sort of hit it.
1:18.9	I hit the wall at the beginning of 2019 where I just realized I was so aggravated and filled with anger and even rage and sometimes hatred towards other people
1:31.9	who I was disagreeing with that I took a step back and said, this doesn't really align with my
1:39.9	values and what I say I believe in terms of my spiritual beliefs and my religious beliefs,
1:46.1	something's got to change. And so I decided to sort of make a great, make a course correction.
1:54.8	And at the time, my intuition was that what we needed more of was grace. It wasn't a well-bought-out theory. It just was my
2:04.2	intuition. I felt like our culture had become so devoid of grace and that I personally had really
2:11.1	become devoid of grace. And it was something that I wanted to really delve into. And that's,
2:16.1	that's what ended up becoming this book. And it's such a difficult thing to think about being graceful when I know
2:24.2	I grew up with the, the idea of being graceful as somebody who just kind of nods regardless
2:29.2	of what somebody says and you smile. But like you said, at the same time, you want to be somebody who believes
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