Sara Bareilles: 'Life's Holiest Lesson'

All There Is with Anderson Cooper

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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In a new song "Home" that Sara wrote after listening to Anderson’s talk with Stephen Colbert, she sings, "What is broken cannot heal 'till it's known and loved by name." In this moving conversation she shares "Home" for the first time, and talks with Anderson about the "medicinal" nature of sharing one's grief with others. For more of “All There Is with Anderson Cooper” visit cnn.com/allthereis. Host: Anderson CooperShowrunner: Haley ThomasProducers: Chuck Hadad, Grace Walker, Emily Williams, Madeleine ThompsonAssociate Producer: Kyra DahringVideo Editor: Eric ZembrzuskiTechnical Director: Dan DzulaBookers: Kerry Rubin and Kari Pricher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	wherever you are in the world and in your grief, I'm glad you're here. Welcome to a very special
0:06.2	episode of All There Is. I'm going to be talking today with singer, songwriter, and actress Sarah
0:11.2	Borellis. She's sold millions of albums. She's earned two Grammys, been nominated for multiple
0:16.3	Emmys and Tony Awards. What I didn't know is that Sarah has listened to this podcast a lot and was so moved
0:22.8	by the conversation that Stephen Colbert and I had during the first season that she's written a song
0:27.8	about it called Home, and it's on her new album that's going to be coming out later this year.
0:32.8	You're going to hear that song on the podcast today. It hasn't been released yet, but Sarah wanted all of us in this
0:39.1	community to hear it first. I sat down with her several months ago, and we talked about some
0:44.2	recent losses in her life and listened to the song. I'd not heard it in advance, and I was
0:49.8	incredibly moved by it, and I have to say, I'm a little embarrassed by how emotional I got.
0:54.7	It was difficult for me to include that in this episode, but it is what it is. Here's my conversation
1:00.6	with Sarah Borellis. Thank you so much for doing this. I'm really honored to be here.
1:06.5	You've actually listened to this podcast. Many, many times, yes, yes. What brought you to it?
1:11.5	I guess my own grief.
1:13.5	There was, I feel like one of the things that I love about it so much is like I think it's this very universal experience, but there's not as much sort of interrogation.
1:27.3	I think in the common spaces.
1:30.3	So I felt really courageous to name it and to keep naming it and to find different ways to turn it over.
1:37.3	I just had like a lot of grief in the last few years, a handful of years in my life.
1:43.3	And I found it very powerful, very moving. It's inspired songs.
1:49.1	You actually wrote a song based on a particular episode with Stephen Colbert. Yes. I was walking around.
1:55.9	I live in Brooklyn. I was walking around listening to the podcast. And I was so moved by the story Stephen shared about
2:03.9	losing his father and his brother. And that episode is so special. It's a great episode. Yeah, it's a
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