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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty three to twelve on News talk EDB. Time to
get your book picks for this weekend. We've got two
non fiction reads and Katherine Rains, our book reviewers, here
with them for us. Kilder Catherine, Morning Jack. Okay, let's
begin with this new book about Jackie Kennedy and Nassis.
It's called Jackie Public, Private Secret by Jay Randy Tarabelli.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
So, as you say, there's been a lot of biographies
written about Jackie, and this is the product of hundreds
of interviews that temporally conducted over thirty years, as well
as previously unrest material from the JFK library. And so
you get this really interesting perspective of her quite personal
behind the scenes and not a bogger of biography that
really reviews world events from her perspective. But it all
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studies the Kennedy presidency or those kind of things. But
you get this portrait of what feels like the more
elusive Jackie Kennedy Nassas and her relationships with her parents
and siblings and step siblings and friends and Qui and
all sorts of people and it isn't told chronologically, but
it's interconnected and you get these moments, and so this
picture of Jackie in her life builds up like that
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incites to her relationship with her father and her very
overbearing mother, and her relationship with her stepfather, and there's
this always this undercurrent attention and competition with her sister Lee,
and you know, talks about her marriage to JFK and
his assassination and her marriage to Aristola Analysis, but also
about her projects and her issues with feeling safe and
secure and how she rebuilt her life and the publishing
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world and her editorial work and her relationships, and then
with her cancer diagnosis and the events and her family,
and she she shows her as this very stubborn and
elitis woman, but also very kind and caring and focused
in her approach to life. And so it's not this
scholarly intellectual biography of her, but an interesting read about
her life all the same.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Nice. Okay, there's Jackie Public Private Secret by Jay Randy
Tara Barelli. That's a great name, isn't Jay Randy? Next
up tell us about the let Them Theory by Mel Robins.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
So I'm not usually a particularly massive self help book reader,
but this one kept appearing everywhere I looked. And the
start of this book talks about Mail Robinson. It focuses
on her and how she ended up in that self
help space in her podcast. And she was raised in
Michigan and attended doubt Mouth and went to Boston College
for law, and she worked practicing law, and at thirty one,
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she decided that she hated that, and she hired a
life coach who actually told her that she'd make a
good life coach. But actually the story kind of skips
a little bit further and in her late thirties and
she's pregnant with her third child and her husband, Chris,
is laid off from his tech job, and he starts
this pizza restaurant chain, which fails, and they go into
this complete financial free form, and she begins drinking heavily
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and taking medication, and at forty seven becomes a real
turning point for her. She receives a diagnosis of ADHD
and dyslexia, and this is how she kind of ends
up in this space. And the let Them theory focuses
on how you think about relationships and control and your
own personal perspective on things and how you want to
advance things. It's at the first half of it is
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about not trying to manage other people, and in the
second half she turns to this other concept from let
them to let me and realizing that you cannot take
control and you take responsibility for what happens next. And
it's one of those self help books that either resonates
with you or it doesn't. It doesn't have massively earth
shattering new information, but good reminder about real life challenges
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and insights on how to navigate change and the need
for control, and reminds us that we're actually responsible for
our own success and failures and our happiness and sadness.
And you can't control other people's thoughts and feelings, but
you can control your own. And so yeah, I found
a very interesting perspective on what she talks about.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
It's good that brought you around to self help books,
maybe or a few mores.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't know that I quite go that far, but
I did find this, and I listened to a couple
of her podcasts and things, and the things she talks
that's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh nice, We're not going to catch you reading Ten
Keys to Management Success or something. Probably not fair enough. No,
it sounds good. It does. It sounds really interesting, thank you, kasm.
So that's the Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins and
Catherine's first book, the one about Jackie Kennedy anassas, is
called Jackie Public Private Secret. We'll put both of those
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