Summer Fridays: Lessons from 102-year-old swimmer Maurine Kornfeld (re-release)
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Hey, everyone. Thanks for listening to How to Be a Better Human. This summer, we're doing something special. We're calling it Better Human Summer Fridays. And every Friday this summer, we are going to be dropping a special episode on the feed pulled straight from the How to Be a Better Human archive. These are conversations that I loved and that our team loved. And we think a lot of you may have never heard. And we think they deserve another moment in the sun. So we're giving them that literal moment in the sun here in the summertime. This show has grown a lot over the years. So this is our way of making sure that if you found us recently, you're not missing out on one of the conversations that I am still thinking about sometimes years later.
And if you are a day one Better Human listener, well, first of all, thank you. Thanks for listening for all these years. And I hope that you will enjoy this trip back into our archive, back into some of the best conversations that we've had in the past. So let's get into it. Here's Better Human Summer Fridays. You're listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy. Before we get into the episode, a quick note. This is the last episode of season three of How to Be a Better Human. And after this, the Better Human team is going to take a few weeks off for the holidays, and then we will be back with new episodes for season four in the new year.
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And on a personal note, I am going to be taking parental leave for the birth of my first kid, which I'm very excited about. A little nervous, but mostly excited. And I feel really lucky to be hosting a show like this where I get to have advice from all these brilliant experts about how to handle life transitions like the one that my family is about to go through. When it comes to this podcast, we have been pre-recording episodes, so you will be able to keep listening to our show in the new year as per usual. But I wanted to give you a heads up because I will be out changing diapers and feeding a baby and trying my best to get some sleep. You know, with this big transition that's coming up in my life, I have been thinking a lot about family these days.
what family means, what it requires from us, how I want to show up as a family member. And today's episode is very near and dear to my heart because it's with a person who I consider to be one of my chosen family members. She's also someone who I have learned a ton about what it means to be a better human from. Maureen Kornfeld is many things. She has worked as a social worker, a teacher, a docent at an art museum. But the way that most people know her is as a swimmer. In the pool, they call her Mighty Mo. And Mighty Mo is a world record setting competitor who was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. And at the end of this month, Mighty Mo is going to be celebrating her 102nd birthday.
And she's still in the pool most days. In fact, that is how Mo and I met. I was swimming laps in the public pool and Mo was in the lane next to me when she called me over to give me some pointers on what I was doing wrong in my strokes. We started talking and then I started seeing her every time I went to go to the pool to work out. It felt like she was always there and she always worked out harder and stayed in longer than I did. That is 100% of the time she was there for longer than I was. Eventually, as we started chatting more, she invited me to come over and have some iced tea on her porch. And I took her up on that offer. And long story short, now she is one of my dearest friends in Los Angeles and a person who I consider to be a member of my chosen family.
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