The Light We Carry Overcoming in Uncertain Times

I read your first book and I loved it. I read "The Light We Carry".

And when I finished this book and I've also read your husband's book, I'm always nervous about the correct phrasing.

My guest today is a former first lady, best selling author of the 2018 memoir, Becoming, her latest book. "The Light We Carry" overcoming in uncertain times is available now.

But what I've found about your book, which is so nice and different, I think, than the first book, is that you're addressing something that I talk about a lot on this podcast,

which is there is a common misconception that people who are in your position or to a much lesser degree, my position, people that are known that we don't have anxieties. We don't have issues.

there is now a new book titled The Light We Carry, which just the title alone makes you wanna shove your head into an oven.

So it's like a mixture between Ta-Nehisi Coates' title and Tim O'Brien and The Light We Carry. Oh, it just sounds interminable and horrible.

quote, in The Light We Carry, Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering new paths and new pathways for Prague.

This hippie, dippy new age crap is just so, oh, it's so boring.

Quote, I've learned it's okay to recognize that self-worth comes wrapped in vulnerability and that what we share as humans on this earth is the impulse to strive for better, always and no matter what.

Mrs. Obama's newest glorious book, The Light We Carry, is about how she humans.

Mrs. Obama believes that everyone has a light. And her book and accompanying new show, The Light Podcast, is about ways to protect and rekindle our light, see and amplify the light in others, and light up the world together.

So this was the perfect place to come and talk about The Light We Carry.

I talk about in the book how the one thing he used to say to us as kind of an admonition to me and my brother is when we ever did something where it seemed like we were looking at the other person's plate, he'd say, 'never satisfied'.

And I talk about that being a part of bigotry, racism, unbeknownst to some of us, that we just get caught in our comfort. We block out all the new. And so now we don't know any new. We just do the same thing all the time and we don't realize that that newness is keeping us blocked off from other.

And, you know, Michelle Obama in her book, The Light We Carry talks a lot about being an only and being a first.

She wins her second Grammy. Congratulations to her for an audio book, The Light We Carry.