Quick Fix: Letting Go of Guilt
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In this exclusive Quick Fix bonus episode: Laurel Braitman reads a passage from her book What Looks Like Bravery: An Epic Journey Through Loss to Love. She talks about journeying up to Alaska to learn about guilt from some badly behaved birds.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Susie Weiss, and I've noticed there's just simply not enough podcasts in the world. So I'm launching my own. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Second Thought is a weekly show about pop culture. The stuff everyone's been binging, arguing about, obsessing over. Here's the thing about heated rivalry. I mean, even the most devoted swifties, I think we can agree, not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. |
| 0:21.8 | Talk about genius. |
| 0:22.6 | Talk about generational talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss. |
| 0:27.8 | Available wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:32.7 | Hello and welcome to's Quick Fix our Slate Plus bonus segment. |
| 0:37.9 | Though today it should probably be called not a quick fix, slow fix. |
| 0:42.8 | We'll workshop on titles. |
| 0:44.9 | Anyway, after our recording about rebuilding your life after a fire, Laurel Bratman stayed on for a few extra minutes with our listener Jeff and my producer, Joel Meyer, to talk about her memoir, |
| 0:55.2 | What Looks Like Bravery, an epic journey through loss to love. |
| 1:01.4 | It's really a story about how we become the people we're meant to be, even when we don't want to. |
| 1:08.7 | It's a story about surviving loss and finding meaning in the hardest |
| 1:13.9 | things that happened to us. And for me, that was loss of people I loved, but also the loss of |
| 1:20.0 | my home to wildfire and a number of other things. It's also a tale about what we can learn |
| 1:25.8 | from young people when it comes to dealing with hard things. |
| 1:29.5 | So this is a part of the book, a big chunk of the book, takes place in Alaska. |
| 1:34.8 | And I was on a reporting trip in the Bering Sea in a place called Dutch Harbor out in the Aleutian Islands. |
| 1:41.9 | And I was there to report a story about bald eagles that attack people |
| 1:46.0 | for National Geographic and for California Sunday magazine. And as soon as I got to town, |
| 1:52.5 | people started telling me that I needed to speak to this woman named Susie Gallidoff, |
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