Thanks For Being Here - Auntie Marge the Maker

She left an abusive relationship while pregnant, moved into a shelter system built for a hundred women she’d never met, and still found a way to finish her bachelor’s degree, texting an assignment to her professor from the delivery room. Kelly closes out the Can Do Moms series with Briana, a graduate student now working toward a career in public policy — trying to close the distance between the people making decisions and the people living with them. They talk about what it means to lose your voice and slowly build it back, the phrase Briana's mother used that she still leans on, and why policy tends to go wrong when no one at the table has actually lived it. This is a conversation about rent, bus transfers and juggling to pay high Con Edison bills, but also about something much bigger: who gets to tell their own story, and who has it told for them.This is the 4th in our "Can Do Moms" series made possible by the Monarch Foundation.To learn more about the Bridge Project visit:https://www.bridgeproject.org/

Kelly's cousin Kathy Corrigan Zentgraf honored her mother Lena Natale Corrigan in this incredible talk.

Kelly and her longtime friend Jennifer Wallace, the New York Times bestselling author known for her work on mattering, are taking their ongoing conversation on the road. Jenny makes the case for mattering, Kelly makes the case for making and creativity, and the two sit down together to find where those ideas actually meet. Thanks to the Walton Family Foundation, they’re bringing the whole thing to you live, with stops in Portland (ME), Bozeman, Washington D.C., New York City, and Bentonville. As Kelly puts it, "there’s a synchronicity that happens when people breathe and think together in the same room". Join us - details below.Portland, ME — Tuesday, October 20, 2026 - SOLD OUTBozeman, MT — Monday, October 26, 2026Washington, DC — Thursday, October 29, 2026New York, NY — Monday, November 2, 2026Bentonville, AR — Saturday, November 7, 2026For tickets and more information: https://www.kellycorrigan.com/fall-tour-2026(Click on the city you're interested in on the web page listed above to access ticketing.)

She spent a decade in uniform, searched for signs of life on Mars, and once calmly aided soldiers wounded in combat. Then, at 40, she found herself living in her car, pregnant, with nothing left but the will to start over. Kelly talks with new mom Cortney in the 3rd episode of our Can Do Moms series, about what happens when a person built for crisis finally meets one she can't out-strategize. They get into the particular unraveling of new motherhood, the 3 AM rituals that become sacred, and a hard-won rule for staying curious with people who see the world differently than you do.Turns out there's no field manual for this one - just a dedicated mom, showing up with love.This is the 3rd episode in our "Can Do Moms" series made possible by the Monarch Foundation.To learn more about the Bridge Project visit:https://www.bridgeproject.org/

A letter from Kelly to honor the many special nurses who have provided care to her and the people she loves. (Previously aired)

Andy Laats thought parenting was a complete alphabet—he did A through M, his wife Liz handled N through Z. After she died of ovarian cancer, he learned he'd underestimated the N through Z work, and then discovered there was a whole world beyond language he never even knew existed. In this Go To episode featuring Andy's TED talk from Kelly's curated session on AI and family life, a CEO learns what a mother knows—that the prize of parenting isn't in mastering the logistics or even the emotional check-ins, but in earning access to something beyond words. (Previously aired)

Kelly talks with Ariela, a mother of two in Massachusetts who was told by a doctor, just three days after giving birth, that her newborn son was slowly dying. He was diagnosed with a rare metabolic disorder, rushed to Children's Hospital, and spent 22 days in intensive care. It was a crisis that reshaped her family's finances, her older son's sense of normal — and one she is still navigating every day. They get into why the oxygen-mask metaphor falls apart the moment you're actually living it, and how Ariela is slowly learning to give herself the same grace she gives everyone else.This is the 2nd in our "Can Do Moms" series made possible by the Monarch Foundation.To learn more about the Bridge Project visit:https://www.bridgeproject.org/

Jody Weverka wrote this sweet eulogy for her Auntie Marge - a woman who made everything from crafts to meals to gardens to family life better for everyone. (Previously aired)

A Maasai girl grows up milking cows at dawn, walking ten kilometers for water, sleeping eight to a bed, surrounded by 38 siblings and five mothers who all knew her name and sang her song. Then she leaves for the city—chosen husband, three children, a laptop, shoes with zippers. Kelly shares Ndinini Kimesera Sikar's TED talk about living in two worlds and the question that haunts her: what do we preserve as we rush toward the future? In the village, mental health was strong because life included everything research now tells us we need—movement, nature, community, belonging. In modern life, we've traded all of that for autonomy and advancement, filling bookstores with self-help guides trying to teach us what we once knew naturally. As AI promises to manage even more of family life, Ndinini asks us to pause and decide: do we know what we want to keep and do we know how we'll protect it before the current sweeps us away? (Previously aired)

Chelsea wakes up before 4:30 AM, drives a school bus through rain and mud, and still finds a way to give her sons the kind of stability she lacked growing up. Kelly opens a new four-part series, Can Do Moms with a conversation about what it actually takes to raise good kids on very little sleep and even less margin for error. They talk about the community that shows up when family can't, the quiet calculus of choosing presence over productivity, and why the old story about financial help making people lazy has never held up to scrutiny. It's a conversation about competence that goes unrecognized, love that runs on almost nothing, and the particular kind of intelligence it takes to hold a whole family together — all by yourself.This episode was made possible by the Monarch Foundation.To learn more about the Bridge Project visit:https://www.bridgeproject.org/