Episode 64: So Much Further To Go: The Consequences of Racial Injustice and True Allyship ft. Natajia Miller
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 64: So Much Further To Go: The Consequences of Racial Injustice and True Allyship, featuring Natajia Miller The first time Natajia Miller, who grew up in the Bahamas, was stopped by police for Driving While Black she was en route to graduate school in Georgia, her mother in the passenger seat […]
Episode 63: When Your Baby is Born With a Congenital Heart Defect ft. Annamarie Saarinen
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 63: When Your Baby is Born With a Congenital Heart Defect featuring Annamarie Saarinen When Annamarie Saarinen’s newborn daughter Eve was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect she didn’t know that 1 in 100 babies are born with similar conditions and 40% of those are serious and require intervention in early […]
Episode 62: Rebuilding After Police Brutality ft. Phillipe Holland
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 62: Rebuilding After Police Brutality Six years before George Floyd’s death triggered national reaction to brutality and racism in policing, Phillipe Holland was shot 14 times by officers in Philadelphia. Listen On Apple Listen On Spotify Listen On Google Podcasts CONNECT WITH PHILIPPE HOLLAND: Instagram Phillipe never thought he would go […]
Episode 61: A Family Survival Story: Prosthesis, Recovery, and Resilience ft. Rosalie and Michael Mastaler
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 61: A Family Survival Story: Prosthesis, Recovery, and Resilience featuring Rosalie and Michael Mastaler When Hunter became an amputee at just 4 years old his parents, Rosalie and Michael Mastaler, had to negotiate a host of feelings including guilt, grief, and worry for how their son would adapt. The loss of […]
Episode 60: The Power of Advocacy After Childhood Trauma ft. Johnny Crowder
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 60: The Power of Advocacy After Childhood Trauma featuring Johnny Crowder For 18 years, Johnny Crowder did not speak about the struggles he was enduring at home, partially because when he was young, he believed that abuse was normal, and partly because he wasn’t ready to break away from the patterns […]
Episode 59: Living Through the Loss of a Spouse ft. Mark Schutter
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 59: Living Through the Loss of a Spouse featuring Mark Schutter The hardest moment in Mark Schutter’s life was when he had to walk out of the hospital room where his wife had just died, knowing he would go back to their empty house alone. Mark and his wife met in […]
Episode 58: Mother to a Child Born with Differences: From Pain to Advocacy ft. Jaclyn Greenberg
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 58: Mother to a Child Born with Differences: From Pain to Advocacy featuring Jaclyn Greenberg Jaclyn Greenberg did not know she had contracted Cytomegalovirus (CMV) during her second pregnancy until her 34-week check-up when doctors discovered her baby was not growing correctly, had fluid in his brain, and had an enlarged […]
Episode 57: What a Cancer Mom Wants Anti-Vaxxers to Know ft. Diane Windsor
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 57: What a Cancer Mom Wants Anti-Vaxxers to Know featuring Diane Windsor For Diane Windsor and her son, the anti-vaxx movement represents the difference between life and death. In June 2018, he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and needed immediate treatment. He and Diane had had a strained relationship because […]
Episode 56: Grief Won’t Last Forever ft. Crystal Webster
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 56: Grief Won’t Last Forever featuring Crystal Webster Just 8 hours after giving birth, Crystal Webster had to say goodbye to her newborn daughter, Madelyn Elizabeth who she had unknowingly passed a genetic disorder on to. The next five years of Crystal’s life were consumed by a debilitating sense of loss. […]
Episode 55: 5,000 Miles-A Brother’s Journey After Loss ft. David Richman
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 55: 5,000 Miles-A Brother’s Journey After Loss featuring David Richman One morning David Richman woke up and realized how unhappy he truly was. While he loved his twin children, his great job in the financial industry, and his friends, he spent most of his time behind his desk, was out of […]