The Moth Radio Hour: The Pursuit of Happiness

The Moth

Arts, Performing Arts

4.6 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this hour, stories of searching for fulfillment and finding one's bliss. Unconventional self-care, making ancestors proud, and a quest for the perfect gift. This episode is hosted by Moth Senior Director Jenifer Hixson. Storytellers: Ann Guo battles postpartum depression by soliciting dares from her family and friends. Morgan Givens joins the police academy, following in the footsteps of his trailblazing grandmother. Ruby Cooper strives to give her son everything, until he asks for an untraditional Christmas gift. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:20.3	This is The Moth Radio Hour. I'm your host, Jennifer Hickson. In this hour, the pursuit of happiness.
1:28.3	It's a deep concept from our Declaration of Independence, our inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Scholars and lawmakers and regular citizens have debated the meaning of these words since they were first inked in 1776.
1:36.3	In this hour, people pursuing their versions of liberty and happiness in ways unforeseen by the framers.
1:42.3	For example, our first story is by a woman who turns to crowdsourcing to find her joy.
1:48.5	Live from the Wilbur Theater in Boston, where we partner with Public Radio Station,
1:52.8	WGBH, here's Anne Gwo.
1:59.6	Back in January 2014, I'm driving toward a hotel in Cambridge with a sense of dread in my stomach,
2:09.3	because I can't believe that I, a 38-year-old professional Asian mother, I'm about to become a party crasher.
2:19.3	And not just any party, it's the Goldberg Bar MISVah.
2:25.3	This all started back in 2008 when my son was born,
2:30.3	a time that should have been the happiest in my life, I was diagnosed with
2:35.9	postpartum depression.
2:37.5	All of a sudden, at work, around the water cooler, I no longer knew what to talk about.
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