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Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Nikki Grimes on Complicated Childhoods, Forgiveness, and Extraordinary Grace

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Everything Happens Studios

Health & Fitness, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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What happens when childhood teaches you more about survival than safety? Poet and author Nikki Grimes joins Kate to talk about growing up with profound instability—and still choosing to see beauty, feel joy, and offer forgiveness. In this moving conversation, they explore memory, trauma, faith, and the small pockets of belonging that shape a life.

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There's so much cooking and cleaning and honestly so much waste. I love the ritual of making food

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together with family and friends, but every year I feel the pang of guilt of scraping old leftovers in the trash.

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slash Kate. This episode is brought to you by primrose schools.

1:13.4

Who children become is as important as what they know. That belief is at the heart the

1:18.6

Primrose School's balanced learning approach, which weaves character development into lessons every day.

1:24.4

Balance learning goes beyond academics to nurture traits that help children learn what it means to be a good

1:29.1

friend, how to show respect for others, why it's important to keep promises and more, all in a warm

1:35.2

environment filled with loving teachers. You know I love a space where kindness isn't a bonus, it's baked in,

1:41.5

where little people are learning to be brave and gentle and silly and

1:44.7

strong, where they aren't just filling their brains but growing their hearts. It makes me want to

1:49.3

go back to preschool. A little snack time wouldn't hurt either. From infant to age five,

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