Mitch Albom: “What We Choose to Carry is Actually What Ends Up Defining Us”
Making Space with Hoda Kotb
NBC News
4.9 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you don't know Mitch Album by name or face, you know him from his incredible work. |
| 0:10.0 | Tuesdays with Mori, which came out back in 1997, is the top selling memoir of all time. |
| 0:18.0 | It sold 17 million copies since it was first published. |
| 0:22.3 | Mitch has six other bestsellers, but knowing him like I do, let me tell you, Mitch's greatest |
| 0:27.2 | work is not on the pages of those books. |
| 0:30.3 | This is a guy who opens his doors, the ones to his home that he shares with his wife, to |
| 0:36.2 | children who are in need. |
| 0:38.5 | From the orphanage he runs, have faith, Haiti. |
| 0:42.0 | He helps heal them. |
| 0:43.4 | He helps nourish them and sets them up for a future they would have never otherwise imagined. |
| 0:49.8 | That is the Mitch Album I Know, and that's who you're going to meet today. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Hota Kotby and welcome to Making Space. |
| 1:02.0 | Mitch, first I want to say there's something about you and your presence and when you walk |
| 1:16.4 | into a room, something happens. |
| 1:18.8 | We should point out as we're sitting down to do our podcast, you did not come in alone. |
| 1:22.5 | You came in with two young kids who were from Haiti, from the orphanage that you care |
| 1:29.4 | for. |
| 1:30.4 | Look, there's a lot of things you could be doing in this moment. |
| 1:35.3 | I guess why? |
| 1:40.0 | These kids that I have with me, they're 115 and 116, they've been with me since they |
| 1:45.1 | were four and five years old. |
| 1:49.3 | For me, they are my children. |
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