How would "Tuesdays With Morrie" have ended up if it took place during this pandemic? If Mitch and Morrie met virtually, through a computer screen, instead of in person every Tuesday, sitting close to one another? That's the question Mitch brings to this week's show. With students and teachers meeting daily over the Internet, how does this affect the students? The teachers? The learning process as a whole? Can learning be the same without face-to-face interaction and human touch? Would Mitch and...
Oct 27, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Patricia Heaton, the Emmy Award–winning star of Everybody Loves Raymond, The Middle, and most recently, Carol’s Second Act, is one of TV’s most recognizable and beloved moms. This week, she joins Mitch Albom and the Tuesday People Podcast to talk about her book, "Your Second Act: Inspiring Stories of Reinvention." Through her own second-act experience, Heaton became curious about other people’s stories of second-act transitions and ways to offer support in the process. In her new book, she share...
Oct 20, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Olympic champion, Scott Hamilton, joins Mitch Albom on this week's episode of the Tuesday People podcast to discuss his latest project, Live Your Days. In a world of hustle, distraction, and busyness, Live Your Days is a call to presentness. It's about embracing the fact that we don't control the number of days we have on this earth; we only control what we do with them. It's a challenge to decide what living means to you. It's a call to live, fully live, each day. Scott Hamilton is the living e...
Oct 13, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Schadenfreude is defined as pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. The recent news has brought this topic into the spotlight and, on today's episode, Mitch Albom discusses this phenomenon with his guest, Barnard and Columbia University professor, Colin Leach. Professor Leach explains the difference between Schadenfreude and it's lesser known cousin, Genugtuug, and how we can identify situations where we might gravitate toward finding pleasure in unfortunate circumstances o...
Oct 06, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 50
On today's episode of the Tuesday People Podcast, Mitch Albom and co-host Lisa Goich are joined by a Delaware mother to discuss the challenges she, and so many other mothers are facing, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and at-home schooling. The lines are firmly drawn in the sand: One side are the mothers who, under no circumstances, want their children going back to school until it's safe to do so. On the other, mothers who see their children being challenged by the online learning environment and ...
Sep 29, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 49
When was the last time you apologized to someone you only casually knew? When we think about saying we're sorry, we usually begin with the people we are closest to: our spouses, our parents, our siblings, our children and close friends. Rarely does apologizing extend beyond those outside our tight inner circle. Using the principles of atonement, as practiced at this time during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, host Mitch Albom goes through the list of apologies and discusses how you can apply t...
Sep 22, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 48
When Mitch Albom and Morrie Schwartz met at the end of Morrie's life – in a series of visits that ended up becoming the bestselling memoir, "Tuesdays With Morrie" – Morrie asked a single favor of Mitch: "I want you to come visit me at my grave." It was a request that Mitch has honored almost every time he has visited Boston over the past 25 years. Morrie's request, however, came with some special instructions, "Don't bring me flowers, drive the car in, get out, and leave the engine running. I wa...
Sep 15, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 47
On this week's Tuesday People podcast, family time continues as Morrie's youngest son, Rob Schwartz, joins Mitch Albom from Tokyo, sharing his personal stories and insights about his father. From Morrie's initial diagnosis, to the article in the Boston Globe that led to an interview with Ted Koppel on Nightline, that ultimately led to the worldwide phenomenon that became "Tuesdays With Morrie," Rob discusses what life was like growing up with his now famous professor father. Rob also gives us a ...
Sep 08, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 46
On this week's Tuesday People Episode, Mitch Albom talks to Morrie Schwartz's oldest son, Jonathan, about life with Morrie, what it was like growing up having Morrie as his father, and what it's like now seeing Morrie live on so many years after his death through the book, film, play and this podcast. Jonathan brings an interesting and touching perspective to a side of Morrie we don't often hear about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Sep 01, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 45
What happens when a family member - like a brother or a sister - takes ill or has a difficult challenge in their life and your inclination is to pull closer to them, but their inclination is to pull away? What's the right amount of love to give to those in their time of need? How can you be a good, loyal family member when someone in your family is rejecting your kindness? Do you expect your family members to be there for you 24/7 when you're ill? Or do you believe, as Morrie did, that people sh...
Aug 25, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 44
On today's episode we celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the publication of the bestselling memoir of all time, "Tuesdays With Morrie." Author Mitch Albom, discusses the early days of this beloved book, and how Morrie's wisdom has been influencing readers for nearly a quarter of a century. We will also hear from Morrie Schwartz - in his own words - as he discusses the difference between being willing to talk about yourself once you know you have nothing to lose versus the other times in life. It'...
Aug 18, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 43
On this week's episode of Tuesday People, author Mitch Albom, and co-host Lisa Goich - along with the evergreen wisdom of Mitch's beloved former professor, Morrie Schwartz - discuss the subject of intuition. How intuitive are you? Have you ever had a voice in your head that has detoured you from trouble? Led you to a life-changing decision? Do you follow that voice when it talks? Or do you ignore it? Join us as we delve into the world of intuition and instinct, and learn how you can harness it t...
Aug 11, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 42
You are preparing for your epitaph right now. What do you want your last words to be? What words do you want to be remembered by? On today's episode, Mitch Albom, along with producer Lisa Goich - and words and wisdom from Mitch's beloved professor, Morrie Schwartz - discuss the importance of living your "last words" every day. It's the words and deeds we practice today, that we will be remembered tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 04, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 41
On today's episode of the Tuesday People Podcast, Mitch Albom talks to world-renowned grief expert, David Kessler about grief and his latest book, inspired by the sudden loss of his 21-year-old son, "Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief." In this groundbreaking new work, David Kessler—an expert on grief, and the coauthor with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross of the iconic "On Grief and Grieving"—journeys beyond the classic five stages to discover a sixth stage: meaning. Kessler gives readers a roadmap...
Jul 28, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 40
The late Congressman John Lewis spent six decades of his life fighting for civil rights. He never wavered in his beliefs and fought for those rights until the end. As we celebrate his life on this week's Tuesday People Podcast, host Mitch Albom - with inspiration from the voice of his beloved professor, Morrie Schwartz - discusses ways you can make a difference standing up for the things you strongly believe in. One small voice, along with action, is all it takes to make a difference in the worl...
Jul 21, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Mitch Albom talks about the many versions of heaven that give us comfort, and how he and Morrie spoke about what comes next, and how it influences us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 14, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 38
On today's episode of Tuesday People, Mitch Albom - through the wisdom and voice of his beloved professor Morrie Schwartz - discusses silence and the value of silence, and how it leads to an inevitable adjacent activity: listening. It's tough not to listen when you're not talking, because your ears take over. Conversely, it's very easy not to listen when you are talking, because when you are talking, your mind is determined to say what you have to say. Today you'll learn how being a better liste...
Jul 07, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Think about the last time you hugged somebody who wasn't in your home. When was the last time you shook someone's hand? When did you last lean in to give a friend a kiss on the cheek to say goodbye? The current pandemic has changed our lives exponentially, and human touch is, perhaps, one of the hardest things we have had to give up because of this quarantine. On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, host Mitch Albom and producer Lisa Goich - with words and wisdom from Mitch's beloved p...
Jun 30, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 36
On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, we will continue last week's discussion on how to be the person you want to be when it seems that everybody is telling you who you ought to be. Twenty-five years ago, when Tuesday People host Mitch Albom was interviewing his beloved professor, Morrie Schwartz, Morrie laid out a 5-step lesson plan to becoming a more fulfilled human being on your own terms. We're going to continue this discussion, digging deeper into the concepts of fulfilling your...
Jun 22, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 35
We're all feeling so many raw emotions right now. From COVID-19, to societal and racial unrest, to economic hardship - it sometimes feels as if the world has hit a wall and we're all trying to figure out how to come out of this a whole human being. On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, we will discuss how to be the person you want to be when it seems that everybody is telling you who you ought to be. Twenty-five years ago, when Tuesday People host Mitch Albom was interviewing his bel...
Jun 16, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 34
How can human beings of all races, religions, and political affiliations navigate all of the conversations going on in the world today? How can we as a human race, be true to ourselves while showing compassion and sensitivity toward others? On today's episode of the Tuesday People Podcast, Mitch Albom and producer Lisa Goich—with special words of wisdom from Mitch's beloved professor, Morrie Schwartz—discuss the importance of listening, and how simply stepping back, taking a breath, and hearing ...
Jun 09, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 33
With the recent deaths of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, we are once again, as a human race, challenged to face the issue of discrimnation and what it means to treat all humans with dignity and equality. Morrie Schwartz had a lot to say about this subject, and we'll share with you many conversations Mitch Albom had with his beloved professor about race, the power of protests, what motivates racism, and how we can open our hearts with love and compassion. And as always, the conversation continue...
Jun 02, 2020•46 min•Season 1Ep. 32
How often do you lie in the course of a given day? Why do you lie? Are you aware of even the tiniest white lies you tell and how often you tell them? On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, we take a close look at the untruths we tell and how they affect us individually, and as a society. As always, we hear Morrie's wisdom on the subject in his own words and challenge all of you to approach each day a little more truthfully. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...
May 26, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Happy anniversary, Tuesday People! Today we're celebrating 30 episodes of good conversation, good friends, and trying to put more good out into the world through Morrie's lasting lessons. Today's celebratory episode covers the topics you requested in the group: ALS awareness and family caregiving, how to navigate relationships and social interactions when the world (or the room) seems primed for political tension, and getting vulnerable about feeling not "good enough." Here's to 30 more (and mor...
May 19, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 30
On today's episode of the Tuesday People podcast, Mitch Albom and producer Lisa Goich celebrate mothers everywhere - their love, their hard work and their memory. And through Morrie's words, we hear a very poignant tale of a mother gone far too soon, an 8-year-old boy left devastated at this immense loss, and the love he later found in a gentle and giving stepmother. We are born to crave a mother's love; the supernatural instinct that children have for motherly love is as inherent in us as thirs...
May 12, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 29
How do you want to die? When author Mitch Albom asked his beloved professor Morrie Schwartz if he wanted to be held in his final moments, Morrie responded, "Probably." How we die is not something we often think about, brushing it under the rug as if it either won't happen to us, or will happen so far in the future, it isn't worth discussing now. When you think about the industry that has grown around birth, it only makes sense that we should give the same degree of attention to end-of-life care....
May 05, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 28
We are at an interesting juncture in the pandemic crisis. As cities and states slowly start to relax rules of quarantine, and we begin to venture out of our self-imposed exile, we must be more vigilant than ever in order to keep the curve flattened and those around us safe. Join Mitch Albom and Lisa Goich on today's Tuesday People podcast, as they discuss how to responsibly inch your way back into life, with the danger of infection still lurking around every corner. We can't forget that what we ...
Apr 28, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Mental hygiene is just as important as physical hygiene. And on today's episode of the Tuesday People Podcast, Mitch Albom welcomes Dr. Daniel Amen, one of America's leading psychiatrists and brain health experts. He has authored or coauthored 80 professional articles and more than 40 books, including the New York Times mega-bestseller, "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life," and has appeared on numerous television shows. Today Dr. Amen discusses how to manage stress and anxiety in the shadow of ...
Apr 21, 2020•52 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Many people in this country have been in isolation for over a month now. Aside from occasional trips to the market for food, our days are spent within our own four walls with those closest to us, or in many cases, alone. The thing we need most to survive - human touch - has been taken from us. And now, more than ever, we need to find those people who can keep us going when we don't feel like going much at all. Those friends we can call 24/7 to say, "Hey, I need someone to talk to." Our "Especial...
Apr 14, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 25
On the morning of January 26, 2020, when Matt Mauser's wife, Christina, kissed him goodbye as she left to coach a basketball game, neither one knew this would be the last time they would see one another. Christina Mauser was one of the nine people killed in the helicopter crash that took the life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others in Calabasas, California on that foggy Sunday morning. As Matt and his three young children try to put their lives back together after this terrible...
Apr 07, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 24
