Minka Kelly: Clear Eyes, Full Hearts

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How do we stay soft in a world that has taught us to be tough? Actress Minka Kelly is known for her roles as Lyla Garrity on Friday Night Lights or as Samantha in HBO’s Euphoria. Despite her fame on the big screen, one might not realize the chaos that surrounded her childhood. Being raised by a single mom who worked as a stripper and struggled with addiction, Minka had to learn how to take care of herself and the adults around her, and, eventually, to forgive her mom. In this tender conversation, Kate and Minka discuss: How we can be built from the outside in through our friendships and how our friends become our chosen family How anger tells us that a boundary has been crossed The unfinished ways people love us—reconciling our complicated childhoods with the love we feel for each another How Minka has processed her difficult childhood through a lens of love and grace The way Minka’s mom was changed by her cancer diagnosis, and how once they found their way to one another again, there could never, ever be enough time CW: colon cancer, death of a parent, brief mentions of abuse and neglect *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. THE LIVES WE ACTUALLY HAVE: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days is out now. Learn more, here. Leave us a voicemail and who knows? We might even be able to use your voice on the air: 919-322-8731 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

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0:29.8	I know it's sort of a strange thing to admit, especially on a podcast like this, but part of me always assumes that people are fine.
0:39.8	Which it turns out it's just not true. We might maybe find ourselves assuming that another person's success came without speed bumps.
0:49.8	We assume marriages or family dynamics or friendships are effortless. We assume that other people don't get caught in the same late night
0:59.8	James spirals or worry about their retirement counts or that their kids are going to be okay or if they'll ever feel ready to forgive their dad.
1:08.8	I don't know if you're like me, but I think we sometimes find ourselves assuming that other people have it together.
1:18.8	And it could be because social media paints that picture for us that everyone else is out there living their best lives now.
1:26.8	And oh man, can that feel isolating for all of us who are afraid, anxious, mad, lonely, in pain?
1:37.8	My name is Kate Bowler and this is everything happens.
1:42.8	Today, my guest is someone that you might have had some assumptions about too.
1:47.8	Her's is a story of a chaotic childhood being raised by a single mom who worked as a stripper and struggled with drug addiction.
1:55.8	Often being left in the care of complete strangers for months at a time of being physically abused by her mom's partner,
2:03.8	having to fight gangs in high school, just surreal, awful, unspeakably difficult. And yet, hers is a story about love.
2:16.8	It's a story about a complicated mom who deeply loved her daughter and a daughter who had to learn how to forgive her mom.
2:24.8	And yet, daughter who found the tenacity and the resilience and the courage to take care of herself is now learning exactly how to live, to trust people along the way.
2:37.8	My guest today is the absolutely incredible Minka Kelly.
2:42.8	You will probably recognize her as Lila Garrity in the Emmy Award winning show Friday Night Lights or as Samantha on HBO's Euphoria.
2:51.8	Her acting is characterized in my humble opinion by such vulnerability and heart.
2:56.8	And when I saw that she was writing a memoir, I just jumped on it, fully expecting her life to be as seamless as her success.
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