We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle - Introducing: It Was Said Season 2

Episode Date: October 3, 2022

It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, returns with a new season to look back on some of the most powerful, impactful, and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author-historian Jon Meacham, this documentary podcast series takes you through another season of ten generation-defining speeches. Meacham, along with top historians, authors and journalists, offers expert insight and analysis into the origins, the orator, and the context of the times each speech was given, and they reflect on why it’s important to never forget them.  It Was Said is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, in association with The HISTORY® Channel. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

History is vast and complex, but it can be better understood by looking at critical moments in which a single person approached a crowd with something important to say. James Baldwin said people are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. Dr. Maya Angelou said, history despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived. However, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. It's true for our personal lives, for our family systems, and for our nation. I am committed to knowing history not because of what it reveals

from the past, but what it reveals about me, my family, and my nation, and how it is a tool to help us lead to healing. And I'm here to share a preview of the new season of It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winning author historian John Meacham, It was said season two will focus on 10 generation defining speeches, including those from Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass. In every episode, meet them along with other historians, authors, and journalists,

offers expert insight and analysis into the origins, the order, and the historical context of these speeches, helping tell the stories of visionary leaders and discipline communicators whose words continue to resonate today. Listen to It Was Said, a creation and production of Peabody Award-nominated C-13 originals in association with the History Channel, available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you listen to your podcasts. We stand on a lonely wind-swept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire in the roar of cannon.

When visionary leaders capture the imagination of a nation. We choose to go to the moon and this decayed and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard. When discipline communicators speak truth to power, it learns that he will have to break us in this island all over the world. If we can stand up to him, all your life may be free, and the life in the world may move forward. The course of history can be altered. Humanity has been shaped by moments in which one person approached

a crowd with something important to say. To those waiting with vated breaths for that favourite media catchphrase that you turn, I have only one thing to say. You turn if you want to. The ladies not for turning. I'm John Meacham and this is It Was Said Season 2, a creation and production of C-13 Originals, a cadence 13 studio and association with the History Channel. Join us as we take you through another 10 historic and timeless speeches which still resonate today and will for generations to come. December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy."

It was said season 2, 10 moments in time immortalized by the spoken word. Listen and subscribe for free on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. you