Episode 95: Surviving Domestic Violence and Building a New Life ft. Sonia Frontera
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 95: Surviving Domestic Violence and Building a New Life ft. Sonia Frontera Sonia Frontera, a collaborative divorce lawyer and author of divorce and relationship-related books, survived a 7-year toxic marriage. She married at 24 and on the flight to her honeymoon right after the wedding, her husband became a whole new […]
Episode 94: Catalogue Baby – A Memoir of (In)Fertility ft. Myriam Steinberg
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 94: Catalogue Baby – A Memoir of (In)Fertility ft. Myriam Steinberg A few months after Myriam Steinberg turned forty, she decided she couldn’t wait any longer to become a mother. She made the difficult decision to begin the process of conceiving a child without a partner. With her family and friends […]
Episode 93: My Salinger Year and a Second Chance at Love ft. Joanna Rakoff
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 92: Warrior Culture and Mental Health in Law Enforcement ft. Scott Medlin When Scott Medlin returned from his second deployment to Iraq he didn’t realize he was suffering from PTSD, but knew something was wrong. He experienced confusion and anger and struggled with alcohol and didn’t know how to get back […]
Episode 92: Warrior Culture and Mental Health in Law Enforcement ft. Scott Medlin
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 92: Warrior Culture and Mental Health in Law Enforcement ft. Scott Medlin When Scott Medlin returned from his second deployment to Iraq he didn’t realize he was suffering from PTSD, but knew something was wrong. He experienced confusion and anger and struggled with alcohol and didn’t know how to get back […]
Episode 91: Weed Mom ft. Danielle Simone Brand
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 91: Weed Mom ft. Danielle Simone Brand When Danielle Simone Brand began researching cannabis years ago she had no idea she would become a full-fledged canna-mom and even write a book about how helpful weed can be to mental and physical health and to a sense of well-being so many mothers […]
Episode 90: A Life of Meaning After Profound Loss ft. Jacqueline Genovese
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 90: A Life of Meaning After Profound Loss featuring Jacqueline Genovese When she least expected it writer and teacher Jacqueline Genovese became a mother after her older sister made her guardian of her two children before she lost the battle with cancer. Jacqueline built a life for her new son and […]
Episode 89: When The Only Choice Is To Change Your Life ft. Artisha Bolding
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 89: When The Only Choice Is To Change Your Life featuring Artisha Bolding In 2018 Artisha Bolding was working 50- to 60-hour weeks and becoming more and more unhappy. She was unsettled and frustrated in her marriage and thinking of leaving her husband and knew she wanted a different career path. […]
Episode 88: Shattering Gender Roles in Japan ft. Shu Matsuo Post
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 88: Shattering Gender Roles in Japan featuring Shu Matsuo Post Gender equality advocate and author of the book I Took Her Name, Shu Matsuo Post grew up in a very patriarchal society. Through Japanese media and at school he grew to understand what was expected of him as a man. He […]
Episode 87: Girl Left Behind ft. Judy Temes
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 87: Girl Left Behind featuring Judy Temes On a summer night in 1969, Judy Temes’ mother and a father, both physicians, packed their car for what was supposed to be a family vacation. Only this was no vacation. They were escaping Hungary’s totalitarian regime. The tourist visas that gave them safe […]
Episode 86: Recovering from Diet Culture ft. Stefanie Bonastia
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 86: Recovering from Diet Culture featuring Stefanie Bonastia Stefanie Bonastia was about 15 years old when her eating disorder began. She was a shy, creative girl with anger she wasn’t aware of and wanted to gain a measure of control over her life. What started as anorexia became bulimia and later […]