Episode 96: Mom’s Christmas Stocking

04/12/2025 39 min Temporada 9 Episodio 96

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Wendy Strauss’s story began with a slip of paper discovered in her late mother’s tidy little office. It was a simple note titled “Mom’s Christmas Stocking,” asking her children to keep filling a stocking for Mom by giving it to a woman who needed “a shot of love.” That tender request became a calling. What started as one timid lunch-hour drop-off blossomed into an annual community tradition that now fills hundreds of beautifully curated stockings for women in shelters, prisons, and recovery programs across New York City, each one a love letter, a reminder that someone sees you and you matter. In this episode, Wendy shares how she transformed her grief into grace, how a single note became a nationwide movement (Mom’s Christmas Stocking), and how giving on any scale can be profoundly healing.