The Thank-You Project: Voices 43 With Nancy Davis Kho
The Mom Hour
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4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Would it change your life to write thank you letters to the people who’ve helped you get to where you are? That’s what writer Nancy Davis Kho set out to do when she approached a milestone birthday while navigating a challenging series of family transitions and personal loss. In this month’s Voices interview Meagan chats with Nancy about the science behind gratitude and the connection to happiness, and what the thank-you project taught her. Enjoy!
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- Find out more about Nancy’s book The Thank-You Project: Cultivating Happiness One Letter of Gratitude at a Time
- Check out Nancy’s podcast Midlife Mixtape
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to |
| 0:05.7 | grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that |
| 0:10.5 | motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement. |
| 0:14.0 | And remind you that it's really all going to be okay. |
| 0:16.0 | We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
| 0:19.0 | We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:22.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour. Hi everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour. |
| 0:25.0 | I am Megan Francis and I'm here with one of our monthly voices episodes |
| 0:29.0 | where we talk to cool people, authors, podcasters, |
| 0:32.0 | and just people we think that you'd like to hear from. My guest today is |
| 0:35.3 | Nancy Davis Co. Nancy is a podcaster, her podcast is Midlife Mix Tape. We go way back together |
| 0:41.5 | as old school bloggers and she's got a brand new book out called |
| 0:44.8 | the Thank You Project where Nancy actually wrote 50 thank you letters to people and in some |
| 0:49.9 | cases places and things that have been important in her life. The book is all |
| 0:54.4 | about what she learned from that, the science of gratitude, and why it's so |
| 0:57.7 | important, and what it can really do for us to do this sort of intentional |
| 1:01.9 | practice of being grateful grateful thinking about people that |
| 1:04.6 | were grateful for and then actually sitting down and telling them in some |
| 1:08.3 | cases. It's a great conversation and we really dig into like what the process of writing the letters was like |
| 1:14.8 | who she wrote them to how they were received and now this book that she's got coming out |
| 1:19.2 | so I'm gonna take a quick break and then we'll jump in with our interview with Nancy Davis Coe. |
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