(BEST OF) Mothers & Sons with Ocean Vuong and Chase Melton

May 12, 2026 · 1h 6m · YouTube

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0:00Pod Squad, welcome back to our best of series.

0:02The conversation we're sharing with you today is without a doubt in my top five.

0:08Today we're doing a mothers and sons episode, but not in the way we've been taught to think about mothers and sons.

0:15This conversation with the incredible poet and novelist Ocean Wong is a conversation that really brought home for me the truth that mothering is not a role.

0:27It's a force.

0:29It's not necessarily an identity to have or an identity to hold.

0:33It's a energy inside us that we unleash or don't.

0:37It's something we do for each other.

0:40It's something that can come from anyone, from any person, from a book, from a voice that just finds you right when you need it the most and that moves you forward, that nurtures you forward.

0:56What was so special about this episode for me is that my son, Chase, sits down to do it with me.

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