Been There, Done That: Family Wisdom For Modern Times

Written by Al Roker, Deborah Roberts and Laura Morton

Narrated by Al Roker and Deborah Roberts

Life lessons from New York Times bestselling author and Today show personality Al Roker and his wife, globetrotting ABC news journalist Deborah Roberts.
 
Al Roker and Deborah Roberts have sixteen Emmy Awards between them. They have covered everything from the Olympics and the Gulf War to natural disasters and the AIDS crisis in Africa. Now these two married journalists and parents have collaborated on the most personal and important “story” of their lives.
 
Been There, Done That is a funny, heartfelt, and empowering collection of life lessons, hard-won wisdom, and instructive family anecdotes from Al and Deborah’s lives, from their parents and grandparents, and from dear friends, famous and not. Here, Al and Deborah candidly share childhood obstacles like obesity and growing up in the segregated south; the challenges and blessings that come from raising very different kids; hard-won truths about marriage and career; the illuminating “little things” that adults can learn from children; and the genuine wisdom that the elderly can share with a younger generation.
 
These are real-life stories told from every perspective—from parent, spouse, daughter, son, and friend, stories that every reader can relate to, appreciate, and share.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Audio
• Release date: Jan 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9780698411203

Al Roker

Al Roker is the popular weatherman and cohost of NBC’s Today. With fourteen Emmy Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, and over forty years on air, he’s one of America’s most trusted morning show anchors. As CEO of Al Roker Entertainment, he produces award-winning content for network, cable, digital, and streaming channels. Through his company WeatherHunters, Inc., Al created the PBS Kids animated STEM series Weather Hunters, which won the ALSC Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award. A bestselling author and media personality, Al has also given a TED Talk and written over a dozen books, from cookbooks to essay collections to children’s books. He lives in New York City with his wife, ABC News correspondent Deborah Roberts, with whom he shares three adult children and granddaughter, Sky. Visit him on X and Instagram @AlRoker or on Facebook.

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This is the autobiography of Al Roker, TV weatherman for NBC, and author, and Deborah Roberts television correspondent for 20/20 on ABC. They are married, come from different backgrounds, and work and sometimes compete in the same industry. This is how they make their marriage work. The autobiography is told in a series of vignettes told from each other points of view. There nothing off limits everything is touched upon from their sex life to their disagreements over car driving, and child rearing. The net effect of this is to get the reader to examine their own family life and career, a family decisions.

Yes this books seems to intended for a married audience . It does give the reader insights into the decisions and sacrifices women and men make to get the news to the public. In this way it is similar to Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV by Brian Stelter This book focused laser like of the Ann Curry affair and Robin Roberts cancer. Been There Done That argues that individuals in the television news business do not have to be as cutthroat, while still being competitive. Overall this was a fun and happy book to read.