Hello and welcome to Ways to Change the World. I'm Krishnan Gurumurthy and this is the

podcast in which we talk to extraordinary people about the big ideas in their lives

and the events that have helped shape them. I guess this week has somebody I've been

trying to get on for years and I sent my message about three years ago, I think, and I'm

delighted to say we've finally gotten. Rob Delaney is famous to most people I suppose

as a comedy actor. He's a comedian, a writer, a political activist and he's written a very

emotional book called A Heart That Works about losing his son to a brain tumor and it's

a very emotional work and Rob has been out promoting it on TV and radio and you've been making

people cry. I mean, it must be very, very strange doing a sort of a book promotional

tour for something like this that's so emotional. I mean, how are you?

Well, thank you for asking. I'm doing okay. I knew it would be hard to promote this book,

but I knew that in the writing of it, it felt like a healthy process. You know, it helped

me organize some thoughts and realize some things that were very helpful to me. So the writing

of it was a good thing, even though it wasn't easy. I knew that I wanted it to be out there

for people because I know that from my own experience that a bereaved parent just kind

of showing you how they did things can be very helpful to other bereaved parents. So I'm

no better, no worse than any other bereaved parent. So if I have something to offer, it'll

likely be of use to other people who've been through enormous pain. So there's a good

thing there and a good thing there in the middle is putting it out there. That's difficult

because yes, I'm proud of the book. Yes, I want people to read it, but it's difficult

to informal settings. Talk about Henry, my beautiful son, who died. Yeah, there's a

book, you know, trailing after him among many other things, feelings and questions and

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