Truth Be Told: Time To Thrive

Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name

American Public Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

"Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive" revisits nine of host Tonya Mosley's favorite episodes, exploring crucial topics that resonate deeply with our current times. From challenging societal norms around rest and productivity to addressing the impacts of deportation, racial trauma, and body image, this collection offers profound insights and conversations with thought leaders, activists, and experts. Each episode provides a unique perspective on personal growth, social justice, and the pursuit of a more equitable world, inviting listeners to reflect, learn, and ultimately thrive.

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0:00.0	I went to bed election night thinking about 2019.
0:04.8	I needed to remember a good moment, a time when I felt hopeful, when that light inside of me wasn't dim but burning and bright.
0:16.7	2019 was the year that I went to because that is the year that I started this show.
0:23.9	Truth be told.
0:28.5	I've never worked on anything that has come together as quickly as this show did.
0:33.9	The idea came one night while hanging out with my friends, fellow journalist Christina and Sandia.
0:40.4	We were actually spread out on Christina's living room floor in her couch and just riffing about the kind of show that we needed to hear.
0:50.5	Outside of the daily deluge of news about impeachment hearing lawsuits and hate crimes,
0:56.4	and Trump's face plastered at top of every news cycle, every hour on the hour.
1:03.3	It didn't really take us long to figure it out.
1:07.6	A friend, Christina said, the one you call after a long day, the one who gets you.
1:16.4	And that friend, Sandia continued, is you, Tanya.
1:25.1	Over five seasons, I've had a chance to learn from some of the greatest thinkers and storytellers of our time,
1:32.9	about how to survive and, more importantly, radically thrive in a changing America.
1:40.0	I've tried to be a friend by opening up space and really listening because I'm on this journey too to figure it all out.
1:48.8	Dear truth be told.
1:49.6	Dear truth be told.
1:50.5	Truth be told, I need your help.
1:52.7	Which is why it meant so much for me to hear from some of you days after the 2024 election that you were listening back to some of our older
2:02.9	episodes. And so I decided to listen back to, and it has been so emotional because there is
2:10.8	so much wisdom and soulful, life-affirming conversations that I really need it right now.
2:20.9	So because of the time. life-affirming conversations that I really need it right now. So beginning January 6th, we're going to revisit some of my favorite truth-be-told episodes.
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