Spike Lee and Christy Turlington Burns Talk Moms

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Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today is the last of our special 5-part series about moms in honor of Every Mother Counts. Christy and I recently spent an unforgettable Saturday afternoon talking to the singular force of nature that is Spike Lee about his mother, Jackie, who died when Spike was a sophomore at Morehouse College. Spike has 134 directing credits over four+ decades, in each case imploring us to Wake Up. Here’s a chance to understand something about the development of this legendary voice. Please share.

This series hopes to raise $100,000 to support safe and respectful pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care in 9 countries through Every Mother Counts, founded in 2010 and led every day since by Christy Turlington Burns. Please join us with a donation here. Maternal health is a human right.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the fifth and final episode in our special series about Mothers. Today's guest
0:10.0	is Spike Lee, the director, the actor, the professor.
0:13.7	He is friends with my co-host,
0:15.9	Christy Turlington Burns.
0:17.7	They are both Rabid Nix fans.
0:20.7	And Christy and I launched this series to bring attention to the great work of Every Mother Counts.
0:28.0	I had a life-changing trip to Tanzania this spring where I got to see and learn about the kinds of things that
0:36.4	happened to women during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and their postpartum period
0:41.2	that can ruin the life of a family.
0:45.6	Much of maternal mortality is preventable.
0:49.0	We have cracked the code.
0:51.0	There are a lot of devoted experts on the ground working in nine different countries, including
0:57.1	the US, using dollars raised by every mother counts. And so after seeing all this work, I thought,
1:05.0	I wonder if the Kelly Corrigan Wonders
1:07.2	listeners would join me in making a donation
1:10.3	in honor of mothers everywhere to every mother counts.
1:14.0	If you would like to be one of those people, I would be so grateful we're trying to raise $100,000
1:19.0	through this campaign.
1:21.0	And you can just go to every mother counts
1:22.8	dot org slash podcast.
1:25.2	Okay, without further ado,
1:27.2	here is my conversation with Christy Turlington Burns
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