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Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Mother Go’ Round

Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Slate Podcasts

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Relationships

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Danny Lavery welcomes Marisa Renee Lee, a called-upon grief advocate, entrepreneur, and bestselling author of "Grief is Love: Living with Loss". Lee also regularly contributes to The Atlantic, Glamour, Vogue, MSNBC, and CNN and serves as an expert for Ritual's wellbeing app. Lavery and Lee offer advice to someone who is put off by her mom who wants to be friends with her. Another letter writer is wondering if she should let go of a friendship with someone who really doesn’t show up for her. Need advice? Send Danny a question here. Email: [email protected] If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows—you’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Big Mood, Little Mood. Sign up now at Slate.com/MoodPlus to help support our work Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up guys? I am Ashley Gavin and I am your father. I'm Elena Joy. I am mommy and I'm

0:05.6

Mackinjmy your hot teenage brother. Baby Mac is baby. We are your chosen

0:10.8

family because you don't have a gay family and you need a gay family.

0:14.7

Every week we bring a topic to the family dinner table from gender dysphoria to monogamy to how to figure

0:19.4

out if someone is into you.

0:20.6

Listen to chosen family every Wednesday on your favorite podcast app or watch

0:24.5

full episodes on YouTube to get the full family experience. Chosen Family is a part of the

0:29.2

Forever Dog Podcast network. Just a reminder that big mood, little Mood with Daniel M. Laverry happens twice a week.

0:35.0

Slate Plus members get an additional mini episode or Little Big Mood every Friday.

0:40.0

Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. You are in the world, in the world, in the move, in the move, in the move, in the move,

0:57.0

in the move, in the with me in the studio this week is Marissa Renee Lee.

1:12.2

It called upon Grief Advocate,

1:14.2

entrepreneur, and the best-selling author of Grief is Love,

1:17.3

Living with Loss.

1:18.2

Marissa, welcome to the show.

1:20.0

Thank you so much for having me today.

1:22.3

I'm so glad to have you here.

1:25.3

I didn't necessarily go seeking out grief related questions

1:30.0

because that is almost always, at least in the background of a lot of the questions that I get asked,

1:34.4

but I do think that a lot of our questions today are going to be very much in your sort of wheelhouse.

1:39.5

So I hope that that is not a problem for you and that you feel prepared to talk about grief again.

1:44.8

I've got you covered, so thank you.

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