Jojo Moyes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I just kind of was buffeted along.
Take it.
Yes.
I think there's always been a really strong sense of self-preservation in me.
I think I'm resilient.
Yes, you are.
And that's the difference.
And that's the thing I try and teach my own kids is just the world will have its way with you and you just have to keep bouncing back, which I think is the point of your podcast.
Yes.
Yes.
So you can die happy.
Do you know my friend Sophie Kinsella died just before Christmas of a brain tumour and she wrote a letter to be read out at her funeral, which was...
so good and so funny and heartbreaking, but one of the first things she said is, oh, but I have been so lucky.
And having known her for 20 years, I totally got it.
She was married to the same man
that she adored for 35 years.
She had five glorious children.
She'd had this career that she could only have dreamt of.
And that was how she chose to meet it.
It was not, why me?