In Her Words

As I research my own personal experience as a White child in the Deep South raised in part by Black women, I walk through the storytelling process with my friend Ramona Holloway with an eye on sensitivity and respect, knowing the whole area is a kind of minefield.

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Maeya Carr grew up in a time when family would bring the recently deceased body of a loved one into the home and people would basically have the wake around the body.

So she’s comfortable around death as a part of life. I ask her how I can get more comfortable and spiritual sparks fly.

You’ll get a lot out of this!

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Can families torn apart by extreme, cult-like politics turned bitterly personal find a way to make peace?

How can we protect ourselves from hateful abuse and give grace to people we love?

What do you when you feel totally alone?

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Roxanne and Stuart speak from tough personal experiences on the front lines on when and how to intervene in a loved one’s drinking and drugging.

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Robyn studies the skies for answers. She has travelled the world and spent years taking courses and doing in-depth reading in the world of astrology. We sit down in Tongva Park in Santa Monica for a discussion of the history and teachings of ancient scientists. Together we marvel at what kind of fate brings us together and how unlikely life is. Lots of twists and turns. Awe inspiring.

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Kim Matone first opened up publicly about her own mental health struggles on this very podcast.

Her personal story helped her and many others as she becomes an ambassador for Mental Health America and sound practices in mental wellbeing.

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Roshanda Pratt believes VISIBILITY doesn’t just happen - but it can be taught. And she’s just the one to teach it! 
Since our conversation (masked, during COVID) she’s taken off like a big ole ROCKET, teaching courses on LINKEDIN and online helping all kinds of women step into their power and use their real voices to change our world for the better. 
I worked with Roshanda back in the day at WCNC-TV and I’m proud to call her a friend. Coincidentally she helped me to develop and launch this very podcast as a consulting producer. THANK YOU RO! 

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LeAnne Feliciano has taken women on shamanic journeys to discover their sacred connections to spirit guides.

It’s every bit as wild and mystical as you might expect.

When a podcast starts with a prayer to the Universe, we’re in for a wild ride!

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I’m tremendously grateful to have worked with Allison Andrews on national award winning investigative reporting in my career in TV news. Then she was my go-to developmental producer who strongly encouraged (bitch slapped) me into starting this podcast almost five YEARS ago! 
Now she’s encouraging me to strategize and REBOOT this whole “man listening” thing - especially when I get down and just want to either mail it in or quit. She won’t have it. THANK YOU ALLISON!!! 
This is a repeat episode TBH but it’s worth repeating! 

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I admire Susan Andersen so much for creating ANSWER Scholarships to send dozens and dozens of young Moms back to college to graduate into higher paying vocations where they can make better use of their talents and earn significantly higher incomes over the course of a career. 
Often Susan finds a “Halo Effect” in the lives of the next generation of school kids who witness first hand what is possible through hard work and focus on a goal. 
I have personally donated to this cause and strongly endorse Susan’s work. 

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