Episode 43: Breaking the Cycle of Abuse ft. Vanity Dawson
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 43: Breaking the Cycle of Abuse featuring Vanity Dawson For most of her life, Vanity Dawson faced what felt like a never-ending cycle of abuse. Her mother was cruel and her stepfather began molesting her at the age of ten. In an effort to protect her siblings Vanity endured his abuse […]
Episode 42: It’s Okay Not to Be Okay ft. Simi Krishnan
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 42: It’s Okay Not to Be Okay featuring Simi Krishnan An accomplished woman who seemingly had all the boxes of her life checked, Simi Krishnan could not have predicted how her world would irrevocably change just after she immigrated to the US. While experiencing the culture shock of leaving her UK […]
Episode 41: When Your Child Has An Eating Disorder ft. Colleen Rosenblum
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 41: When Your Child Has An Eating Disorder featuring Colleen Rosenblum Colleen Rosenblum never suspected her teenage daughter had been battling a severe eating disorder from the early age of 12. She ate meals with the family and did well academically. But then, one day when Colleen was trying to talk […]
Episode 40: Hollywood Park ft. Mikel Jollett
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 40: Hollywood Park featuring Mikel Jollett Mikel Jollett, frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event and author of the new memoir, Hollywood Park, spent his early years with his brother in an orphanage at the Synanon cult not knowing he had a mother and father of his own. Listen […]
Episode 39: The Blessing of Burnout and Other Unexpected Gifts ft. Ana Tajder
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 39: The Blessing of Burnout and Other Unexpected Gifts featuring Ana Tajder When bombs reached her home in Zagreb, Croatia in 1991, Ana Tajder, the daughter of actress/artist Jagoda Kaloper and architect Radovan Tajder, fled to Vienna to escape the war and soon made Vienna her home. Listen On Apple Listen […]
Episode 38: Reimagining Grief ft. Lisa Keefauver
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 38: Reimagining Grief featuring Lisa Keefauver In 2011, Lisa Keefauver’s husband passed away, leaving her a single mother to their 7-year old daughter. Just a few years later, Lisa sat by her close friend’s side as he succumbed to complications from Muscular Dystrophy. After these back-to-back losses Lisa, who has spent […]
Episode 37: Your Blue is Not My Blue ft. Aspen Matis
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 37: Your Blue is Not My Blue featuring Aspen Matis Aspen Matis and her husband Justin had only been married three years when he went missing. On a cold November morning he kissed Aspen goodbye and left to attend the funeral of a close friend but never came back. Listen On […]
Episode 36: From Downward Spiral to the Other Side ft. Ashlee Brown
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 36: From Downward Spiral to the Other Side featuring Ashlee Brown Just before she went off to college Ashlee’s younger brother died in an ATV accident. With her soon-to-be-divorced parents grieving and her own uncertainty about how to cope with loss, she decided to leave for freshman year. Struggling once she […]
Episode 35: Quitter: A Story of Relapse and Recovery ft. Erica C. Barnett
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 35: Quitter: A Story of Relapse and Recovery featuring Erica C. Barnett Five trips to detox, two inpatient rehabs, two outpatient programs, and getting fired from her dream job as a journalist for an alternative newspaper didn’t ultimately keep Erica C. Barnett from drinking again. Listen On iTunes Listen On Spotify […]
Episode 34: Leaving the Mormon Church ft. Natalie Que
EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 34: Leaving the Mormon Church featuring Natalie Que Her whole life, Natalie Que had learned to ignore the misgivings she’d felt about the Mormon church in which she’d grown up with her four sisters. And then, at the age of 29, she met a woman who had successfully left the church, […]