All the Colors Came Out: Author Kate Fagan on Lessons Her Dad Left Behind

Sorry, I'm Sad

Emmy-award winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Kate Fagan joins Kelsie for a two-part series to talk about her latest book, All the Colors Came Out, which chronicles Fagan's relationship with her father, Chris, who died of ALS in 2019. Weaving through lessons her dad imparted on the basketball court during her youth, Fagan writes with love and honesty about how the two of them grew apart and about the steps she took -- quitting her high-profile job at ESPN to move home and help her mom and sister care for Chris in the last year of his life -- to close that gap. Kate and Kelsie talk about their dads, about life lessons and making amends, about what it looks like to care for someone through this disease and about advocacy. Be sure to listen next week when Kate and Kelsie continue their conversation in a special bonus episode. Part two offers an unvarnished discussion about difficult end-of-life decisions ALS families have to make, about the relentlessness of the disease for both patients and their families and about why Kate decided to become an advocate.

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