Stories of Motherhood and Home (from “Stories From a Stranger with Hunter Prosper”)
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What is the purpose of this special episode of Stories From a Stranger?
We wanted to share something special with you this week, an episode of another podcast from Higher Ground, Stories from a Stranger, which features portraits of strangers connected by love, loss, regret, inspiration, family connections, and more. Host Hunter Prosper shares raw, intimate, long-form conversations with real people. It's a show that inspires empathy and connection, proving that every stranger has a story. In this episode, Hunter interviews four powerful women about their relationships with their mothers and their experiences as mothers themselves. My sister was a guest on this episode and spoke with Hunter about how beautiful it has been to watch her daughters grow. They also reflect on the wisdom of our mother, Marianne Robinson, who told my sister, "'Come home, we'll love you here,' which has always helped to ground her."
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Parenting is the hardest and most important job there is.
Yeah. The best thing you can give them isn't clothes
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shoes. It's love and your presence.
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No one will love you like your mother. As an only child raised by a single mom, I've grown to understand all the hard work and sacrifice she had to make to help me become the person I am today. Today, I am speaking to four powerful women about motherhood. Every stranger has a story. Let's start listening. I'm Hunter Prosper, and this is Stories from a Stranger.
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So Mrs. Obama, what I do is I travel the world and I interview strangers showing that we're more alike than we are different. I just want to create a sense of connectedness through our emotions. Experiences, I think, are uniquely yours. Like why you felt love, pain, joy, I don't know, but you felt it and I have too. And so that's kind of the goal of this show and it's always been the goal, just to create that connectedness knowing you're not alone. So my question for you is, what's the most beautiful thing you've been told?
Ooh, the most beautiful thing I've been told. Well, there are a couple of answers. You know, when it comes to one of the things that's the most important to me, which is being a good mom, you know, having my daughters, who are now adult women themselves, telling me that they look up to me, you know, that they... that they value what I've given them as a mother, that they can recite back to me, you know, wisdom and philosophy and insight. You know, they can be very articulate and clear about what I mean to them, right? And it's that bond with my children that is probably the most beautiful thing. And it's almost anything they say to me as a mother. I take it in and now that they're older, they can articulate to me and I can see it in them.
I can see it in the way they carry themselves in the world, the way they solve problems. I think there's beauty in watching for me and watching my children become uniquely themselves and to know that I've had a part in that. So it's not so much of what they have said to me, but it's the many things they say and the way they live out their lives. But in the same vein, when I think of the things I've learned from my mother, that my mother has said to me, in The Light We Carry, the second book that I wrote, I had an opportunity before she died. There's a chapter where I really share some of her wisdom. I mean, the purpose of the book was to, after COVID, to share some of the things that got me through
some of the tools that I used, and a lot of those tools came from the lessons that my mother taught me. And one of them that seems to resonate with people is, come home, we'll love you here. And what Where that came from was that growing up as a working class kid, a Black kid on the South Side of Chicago, you couldn't always be guaranteed that people would show you the love and respect that you deserved because of the assumptions that we make about people because of race, because of socioeconomic status. Sometimes you don't get the benefit of the doubt.
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