Nora McInerny: ...not to rush through the hard stuff in life

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Writer Nora McInerny is the perfect guest for these unsettled times we’re living in. Nora has been through a lot in her life and she’s managed to speak and write about the good times, the bad times and the uncertain times with wisdom, humor, and heart.

When she was only 31, Nora lost her second baby, her father and her husband over the course of six weeks. She’s the author of the books, No Happy Endings and It’s Okay To Laugh. She’s the host of the award-winning podcast "Terrible, Thanks for Asking". And, she’s the author of the new novel, Bad Moms.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. And our guest on this episode is writer
0:18.2	Nora McInerney, and she is the perfect guest for these unsettled times
0:22.7	we're living in. Nora has been through a lot in her life and she's managed to speak and write
0:27.7	about the good times, the bad times, and the uncertain times with wisdom, humor, and heart.
0:32.8	When she was only 31, Nora lost her second baby, her father, and her husband over the course of
0:39.9	six weeks.
0:41.2	She's the author of the book's No Happy Endings and It's Okay to Laugh.
0:45.9	And she's the host of the award-winning podcast, Terrible. Thanks for asking.
0:50.1	And she's also the author of the new novel, Bad Moms.
0:53.6	Nora, thank you so much for joining us.
0:56.1	Oh, thanks for having me here in my home, speaking to you in your home.
1:00.8	What a delightful time.
1:02.6	Everything.
1:03.5	We have so many questions for you.
1:05.8	But the first one is you have dealt with so much upheaval and uncertainty in your life.
1:11.7	And I'm wondering what messages you would have for people who are feeling very unsettled
1:17.1	and shaken and uncertain about the future right now because you've been through so much.
1:22.8	The first thing I say is welcome to the club.
1:25.3	Everybody joins eventually.
1:27.4	So if you are here for the first
1:29.2	time, there's room for you, unfortunately. We saved a seat. We saved you a seat. We scooched over. We made room.
1:37.5	And if you are here again for the second, the third, the fourth time. Yeah, it's just as bad as you remember.
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