Tim Shriver—educator, author, and longtime Chairman of Special Olympics—joins Kate for a tender, funny, deeply practical conversation about dignity: what changes when we decide everyone matters, how relationships (not information) do the real work, and why service is more than “being nice.” Together they trace a family story from Rosemary Kennedy to Eunice Kennedy Shriver to millions of athletes, swap hospital-and-gymnasium epiphanies, and offer a simple lens for disagreeing better. It’s an invitation to the “really real,” where joy and sorrow live together and love makes people—and communities—more fully alive.

SHOW NOTES:
Special Olympics — The global movement founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver and now led by Tim.
Dignity Index — A practical tool for scoring how we speak across difference, helping us learn to disagree without contempt.
Unite — A bridge-building initiative founded by Tim Shriver to foster common ground and shared dignity.
CASEL — The pioneering framework for social and emotional learning Tim helped develop.
Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most — Tim’s memoir on faith, family, and the pursuit of a life that really matters.
Subscribe to Kate’s Substack for blessings, essays, and reflections that hold what’s hard and beautiful.

Tim Shriver&mdash;educator, author, and longtime Chairman of Special Olympics&mdash;joins Kate for a tender, funny, deeply practical conversation about dignity: what changes when we decide everyone matters, how relationships (not information) do the real work, and why service is more than &ldquo;being nice.&rdquo; Together they trace a family story from Rosemary Kennedy to Eunice Kennedy Shriver to millions of athletes, swap hospital-and-gymnasium epiphanies, and offer a simple lens for disagreeing better. It&rsquo;s an invitation to the &ldquo;really real,&rdquo; where joy and sorrow live together and love makes people&mdash;and communities&mdash;more fully alive.
SHOW NOTES:
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<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://www.specialolympics.org">Special Olympics</a> &mdash; The global movement founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver and now led by Tim.</li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://www.dignity.us">Dignity Index</a> &mdash; A practical tool for scoring how we speak across difference, helping us learn to disagree without contempt.</li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://www.timothyshriver.com/projects/the-call-to-unite">Unite</a> &mdash; A bridge-building initiative founded by Tim Shriver to foster common ground and shared dignity.</li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://casel.org">CASEL</a> &mdash; The pioneering framework for social and emotional learning Tim helped develop.</li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/fully-alive-discovering-what-matters-most-timothy-shriver/8cd2a7daf68b5935?ean=9780374535827&amp;next=t&amp;">Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most</a> &mdash; Tim&rsquo;s memoir on faith, family, and the pursuit of a life that really matters.</li>
<li data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><a href="https://katebowler.substack.com/" data-start="2069" data-end="2132">Subscribe to Kate&rsquo;s Substack</a> for blessings, essays, and reflections that hold what&rsquo;s hard and beautiful.</li>
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Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens.  Find her online at @katecbowler.

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Are you living your best life now? Not always? This is a podcast for you. Duke Professor Kate Bowler is an expert in the stories we tell about success and failure, suffering and happiness. She had Stage IV cancer. Then she didn’t. And since then, all she wants to do is talk to funny and wise people about how to live with the knowledge that, well, everything happens.  Find her online at @katecbowler.
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