IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
IMO Live at SXSW: Combatting Hopelessness with Dr. Laurie Santos
Fri, 21 Mar 2025
Michelle and Craig host their first live podcast recording together at SXSW! They are joined by Dr. Laurie Santos, psychology professor and host of The Happiness Lab, to answer a listener question about finding hope in hard times. The group discusses how phones have contributed to the “always on” nature of stress, strategies to harness happiness is the everyday, and how to develop resilience for future challenges.Have a question you want answered? Write to us at imopod.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Who are the hosts of IMO and how did the podcast start?
Yeah.
Remind me. What are you thinking?
I am thinking about the 2008 convention. And that was a big moment for me because that was Barack's first campaign. And in that campaign, people didn't know me. So I... got accused in the press of being angry and combative because of the way I spoke. So I found that I had to use this speech to reintroduce myself to the country. So this was a big speech, major speech at the DNC. I remember that.
And my big brother introduced me. And we were on stage together.
It was quite an honor.
It was quite an honor. But in his introduction, when you're on stage and you're doing a big speech, you have teleprompters. So you have a prompter in the front, have a prompter on the left, prompter on the right, because you're reading from the prompter because it's timed. You've got to hit it right. It's national. It's live.
But let me cut in here. She had to read from a prompter. I memorized mine.
Here we go. favorite child. He memorized everything. Well, my speech was a little longer, a little more impactful. So I needed the teleprompter, right? So he does this beautiful introduction of me. It's all action-packed. And he says, and ladies and gentlemen, the next first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. And I come on stage and they're cheering. And we do this greet
in front of the prompter where I think that my big brother is gonna lean down and give me a hug and say, you got this girl, I love you, I'm so proud of you. So I go out there and we're on national TV and do you remember what you said to me?
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