Giving In to Mortality with Ambika Gautam Pai

While preparing for motherhood, Ambika learned that she is a carrier for the gene linked to ovarian cancer. Now a mother of two, she speaks with Patty and Erin while caring for her infant son on maternity leave about the connection between grief and love.

Links and extras from this episode:

1. Ambika's newsletter and podcast, Corner Office Breakdowns
2. Our breathwork therapist Alice Wells
3. Rainer Maria Rilke's quote on living the questions from his book Letters to a Young Poet
4. All the great books Ambika recommends:
   1. Letting Go, The Pathway to Surrender by David Hawkins
   2. The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
   3. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes

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Episode credits:

• Original music and sound editing by Leslie Allison
• Logo and cover art by Kira Weiss, photography by Kendall Tichner
• Produced by Patty Carnevale and Erin Ozmat
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