Mama Shu: Turning Loss Into Love

Mama Shu: Turning Loss Into Love

Shamayim Harris, known in Detroit as Mama Shu, knows all too well the pain of loss. In 2007 her 2-year-old son Jakobi Ra was killed in a hit and run accident, and in 2021 her other son Chinyelu was murdered. Mama Shu talks with Anderson about how she worked hard to, in her words, “turn my grief into glory and my loss into love.” Focusing on one block in her neighborhood, she began cleaning up blighted properties and has created the non-profit Avalon Village, which aims to be a safe and welcoming space for kids in her community. “This is grief,” she tells Anderson, “it just looks beautiful.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Sara Bareilles: 'Life's Holiest Lesson'

Sara Bareilles: 'Life's Holiest Lesson'

In a new song "Home" that Sara wrote after listening to Anderson’s talk with Stephen Colbert, she sings, "What is broken cannot heal 'till it's known and loved by name." In this moving conversation sh...

20 Mars 41min

Robert Irwin: Finding Strength in the Vulnerability of Grief

Robert Irwin: Finding Strength in the Vulnerability of Grief

Robert Irwin was just two when his dad, “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, died. Now 22, Robert talks with Anderson about growing up with grief and how he's able to still "feel" his dad. For more of “All...

11 Mars 49min

Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with Anderson about growing up the child of divorced parents whose pasts were rarely talked about. Newsom witnessed his mom's death by doctor-assisted suicide a...

9 Mars 27min

 Eric Church on Grief, Grace, and Faith

Eric Church on Grief, Grace, and Faith

The year country music superstar Eric Church turned 40, he survived a life-threatening blood clot and headlined a Las Vegas music festival that two days later became the scene of the deadliest mass sh...

20 Feb 42min

‘Dying is the Opposite of Leaving’: Remembering Andrea Gibson

‘Dying is the Opposite of Leaving’: Remembering Andrea Gibson

Is dying really "the opposite of leaving?" Are we "reincarnated in those we love?" Poet Andrea Gibson thought so, and in this moving conversation, Anderson speaks with Andrea's wife Megan Falley, abou...

6 Feb 35min

Yiyun Li: ‘The Wound That Won’t Heal’

Yiyun Li: ‘The Wound That Won’t Heal’

Author Yiyun Li lost both of her children to suicide. Vincent at 16. James at 19. She talks with Anderson about why she doesn't use the words "grief" or "process," instead describing her pain as "an a...

23 Jan 37min

Patti Smith: The ‘Sacred Wounds’ of Grief

Patti Smith: The ‘Sacred Wounds’ of Grief

Singer, poet, author Patti Smith has experienced the deaths of her husband, guitarist Fred “Sonic” Smith, her brother Todd, and her lifelong friend and artistic soulmate, photographer Robert Mappletho...

23 Jan 41min

Kelsey Grammer: A Brother’s Love and Loss

Kelsey Grammer: A Brother’s Love and Loss

In 1975 Kelsey Grammer’s 18-year-old sister, Karen, was murdered. For fifty years his loving memories of her were colored by questions about her death. In this moving conversation, Kelsey tells Anders...

17 Dec 202533min

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