George Pickering Sr heard his son’s medical prognosis, but
he wasn’t ready to accept it.
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14:09
213: Gwen's grandma fired one shot
When you hear the word “grandparents”, what comes into your
mind?
For me, it’s someone who loves their grandchildren
unconditionally. And they just want to GIVE all the time. There’s some truth to
the phrase “If Mom and Dad say no, go ask Grandma!”.
“Grandma” brings up an image of an older woman, in the
kitchen baking cookies. “Grandpa” means the old man out in the garage,
tinkering with the lawn mower and having me “help” by handing him a wrench or a
screwdriver.
But those are just stereotypes. And sometimes real life
doesn’t match up with the way we commonly think of how grandparents are
supposed to be.
As a little girl, Gwen saw her grandparents all the time.
And she knew her grandpa could sometimes be a not very nice person.
Then one day, Gwen’s grandma decided she’d had enough.
Content warning: this episode includes discussion of gun
violence.
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1:03:03
TQ35: What's the most difficult thing you've ever had to tell someone
Every Tuesday, we grab a past question from the
Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers
given by other listeners.
The question for this episode:
What's the most difficult thing you've ever had to tell
someone?
Links for this episode:
Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott:
https://www.amazon.com/Fierce-Conversations-Achieving-Success-Conversation/dp/0425193373
Meredith’s podcast is Meredith For Real – the Curious
Introvert:
https://MeredithForReal.com
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22:48
212: Steve's wife forgot it all
If you’re a parent, you know that the birth of your first
child is an incredible experience. For Steve and Camre, it didn’t happen at all
the way they expected it to.
Steve got the call at work that Camre was at the hospital
and had already delivered the baby. He dropped everything and drove there
frantically, and he was confused because the baby wasn’t due for another 7
weeks.
He ran into the hospital, and the first thing he saw was his
newborn son, Gavin. He quickly scrubbed up and held him for the first time.
What Steve didn’t know was that, at that moment, Camre was
being put into a medically induced coma in order to save her life. He also
didn’t know that when she would come out of that coma, she would have no memory
of anything. She would not recognize Steve, and she wouldn’t even know she had
just had their baby.
This is a Flashback episode. Steve originally told this
story on the podcast about 5 years ago, so at the end of today’s episode we’ll
get to hear from modern-day Steve, and he’ll tell us what’s happened since
then.
Steve’s book:
https://www.amazon.com/Know-Love-Steve-Camre-Curto/dp/1693701502/ref=sr_1_1
Full show notes and pictures for this episode are here:
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1:07:04
211: Leilani fell off an elephant
Asian elephants are incredibly huge animals.
An adult elephant can be roughly 9 to 11 feet tall. Just
standing next to one is pretty intimidating. But imagine being on top of one of
them. It would be like if you had an average size man, then another man was
standing on the first man’s shoulders. Then you would be sitting on that second
man’s shoulders. That’s pretty high up.
For Leilani, it was a dream from her childhood to interact
with a full-size Asian elephant. And that’s where she found herself – in
Thailand, on a mountain trail, on top of one of those huge animals.
And then things went wrong.
Leilani socials –
https://www.instagram.com/rowoffire/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/leilani-otuafi-558a77b9/
Full show notes and pictures for this episode are here:
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