On NPR's Wild Card podcast, Michelle Obama says she's reinventing herself.
I don't know if my ambition has ever fully been able to actualize itself.
I think I'm now at a stage in my life where all my choices are mine.
I'm Rachel Martin.
Listen to Wild Card for a conversation about balancing family and personal growth with Michelle Obama.
A quick warning, there are curse words that are un-beeped in today's episode of the show.
If you prefer a beeped version, you can find that at our website, thisamericanlife.org.
From WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life.
I'm Emmanuel Jochi, sitting in for Ira Glass.
So about two months ago,
I left work in the middle of the day and joined about 100 million people worldwide in a very particular kind of prayer.
Now, I wish I could tell you that I was praying for a fix to any other world's problems.
But I wasn't.
Instead,
I was standing in a crowded bar in downtown Brooklyn screaming my lungs off for my favourite British soccer team.
Arsenal Football Club.
Arsenal are my hometown London team.
A lot of the fans in the bar are just like me.
There's quite a few Brits, lots of black 30-somethings.
Probably because when I was a kid,