Daryn Kagan features FYB in new book!
If you're at all like me -- you associate periods of time in your life with people you remember watching on the news. As I may have written about before, I was living in New York City during 9/11 and was actually only a block away from the Towers when the planes hit. I normally would never have been in that area of town because I worked out of my apartment, but that Tuesday morning I had an 8:30a doctor's appointment which took me to lower Manhattan. My mom came to the city to join me at the appointment -- it was only a foot doctor's appointment to get a cortizone shot, but I was scared and wanted my mom there to make me feel better (yes, even in your 30's you need that sometimes!)
After the shot in my foot (OMG did that hurt!), we were checking out and overheard the nurses talking about how a plane had hit one of the Towers. I just figured it was a personal plane that mildly brushed the side of the building and shrugged it off. When we left the building we walked out into a world that would be forever changed. We witnessed the 2nd plane hitting the building and watched the flames shoot out and the people running away from the building in fear. We saw the initial fire trucks come racing over the Brooklyn bridge and the plain clothes cops urging people to walk north away from the buildings. We had no idea what was happening.
I only lived less than a mile north in the Village so we began walking back to my apartment. Along the way it was like watching the ripple effect that a stone has when hitting the water -- we were walking as fast as the news was traveling. People began coming out of office buildings to see what was going on. Cars were stopped in the middle of the street with the radios blaring. We heard on one radio that the Pentagon had just been hit as well and that's when the real fear set in.
We arrived back at my apartment just in time to see the buildings collapse on CNN. From that moment on, I was obsessed with CNN -- I couldn't stop watching it, even when I wanted to make the news stop coming. During that time I felt like Daryn Kagan, Bill Hemmer, Aaron Brown, and Paula Zahn were my friends. They communicated the story that was just outside my window to the rest of the world and I felt they did it with compassion, emotion, and true empathy.
Last fall I was contacted by Daryn Kagan to be featured on her new website DarynKagan.com that focuses on "What's Possible." She wanted to tell the Feel Your Boobies story to others in hopes that others facing difficult times might be inspired to know that good things do come from not so good times. I felt honored to speak with Daryn and told her that I watched her religiously during her time on CNN.
I've since learned that Daryn started her website because her contract on CNN (after 12 years) was not going to be renewed. This led her to do some soul searching about what her real interests were and the website is a result of following her gut and trying something new.
She has since captured 50 of the stories she's collected into a book called "What's Possible?" and it was released on April 8, 2008. Feel Your Boobies is one chapter in that book. After speaking with Daryn, seeing her book and keeping up with her website...I think she's a perfect example of "What's Possible?" -- she helped get so many people through such hard times during 9/11 and has moved on to continue to share stories of inspiration. What better way to spend your time?
Below are a few links - check them out and pick up the book if you have a chance.
What's Possible -- buy the book!
FYB Video Feature on Daryn's site
