Emily Kwong
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4,795 appearances
100 recordings
11 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 16 Sep
Emily Kwong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So another element of this is people tend to bond with the folks they share their emotions with.
It's like a really basic idea, right?
But the act of sharing about the hard times you've experienced may come easier to you in a disaster setting when you know that the person you're talking to has gone through the same thing.
Absolutely.
So how does Nanda Nunnally fit into all of this, the woman whose story you told earlier?
Yeah.
Sonanda showed up with kindness in a different way after the tornado.
While she was recovering, she found the girl she had bullied decades ago on social media and sent her a long personal apology message.
Really?
Yeah.
What did the girl say?
The girl had so much gratitude.
The two are now friends and correspond with each other.
And when Nanda moved back to Joplin years later, she started co-running a community center there, which now shelters unhoused people during certain extreme weather events.
So it's kind of come full circle.
Wow.
And social psychologists have a term for this as well.
They call it altruism born of suffering.
This can happen outside the disaster setting to anybody with an individual experience of trauma.
Psychologists say personal hardships as a child, for example, can germinate into do-good behaviors later in life.
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