Bozoma Saint John is a successful marketing executive, but she is also a woman who knows the rollercoaster of profound love and deep loss. She shares her hard-won wisdom and complicated grief as she faced her husband’s terminal cancer diagnosis.

In this conversation, Kate and Bozoma:

Give us permission to tell the whole truth (even when it isn’t a neat)
Speak honestly about the complicated realities of caregiving
Discuss how our roles change within families from daughter to parent or spouse to caregiver
Describe anticipatory grief

CW: adult language, death of a child during pregnancy, death of a spouse

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Bozoma Saint John: Everything Can Be True at Once