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 80: Life After Childhood on a Commune ft. Phoebe Pilaro

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 80: Life After Childhood on a Commune Featuring Phoebe Pilaro Phoebe Pilaro spent her early childhood on a commune in the Redwood forest in the Santa Cruz mountains with very little adult supervision. Her parents had an unstable relationship and her father, likely bipolar and manic, was kicked out of the […]
Episode 68: Your Body Is Not A Problem ft. Katherine Yasi

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 68: Your Body Is Not A Problem featuring Katherine Yasi Katherine was in second grade when her mother called attention to her weight, a moment that impacted the rest of her life. From that day on her insecurities about her size and an endless cycle of shame about her body took […]
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 54: Woman Disrupted ft. Sofia Husnain

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 54: Woman Disrupted featuring Sofia Husnain By the time Sofia Husnain moved to America at age 11 she’d already been through more than most children her age. She was born in Pakistan and raised by a single mother in a male-dominant society, and because women were not treated as equals, Sofia’s […]
Episode 51: The End of Perfection ft. Dana and Sharon Sberro

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 51: The End of Perfection featuring Dana and Sharon Sberro After hitting emotional rockbottoms several years ago sisters Dana and Sharon Sberro realized that they no longer wanted to give into the societal pressure to be perfect they’d felt for years. Facing a darkness they had not known before, they decided […]
Episode 49: Damsel No More ft. Emily Davis

EPISODE SHOW NOTES Episode 49: Damsel No More featuring Emily Davis Emily Davis knew from a very young age that she saw and felt heard things others didn’t. Throughout the day and even more so at bedtime she had a sense of spirits and magic around her and beings trying to communicate with her. Then, […]
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 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 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, […]