In Her Words

In Her Words

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In Her Words episodes

  • Sonja Chisholm - "Gracious Hands" founder helps homeless women with her own 401K.
    Stuart likes Sonja so much the first time they met he gave her $1,000. The money is for her life’s work - Gracious Hands - a shelter for single moms with small children. Sonja had a vision to start the home relying strictly on her faith to fund it. After a radio story about her, an angel showed up and bought her first home! Sonja shoots straight about making peace with her own mother after a rocky start and about becoming a mom at 16. After you hear this, you might want to help Gracious Hands, too.
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    48 min
  • Jan - birth mom gives up daughter for adoption and is reunited.
    Jan gave up her baby for adoption. Stuart was given up as an infant. When an adoptee and a birth mom get together to compare experience, LOOK OUT!  Powerful things happen. Stuart asks Jan about things that she’s totally willing to share…but NO ONE ever asked her! Notes:  Jan went through twelve kinds of hell before the miracle happened for her. If we listed all of them they might scare you off from listening to the whole episode. But don’t quit before you hear the miracle. Tease: Jan is reunited with the daughter she gave up. Ok, all right, and there’s a wedding. Warning: there will be trauma and there will be tears, and not just for Jan. But it’s totally worth it! A profound story of grace, healing and transformation.
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    47 min
  • Sheri Lynch - "Bob & Sheri Show" co-host started as a terrified little girl.

    Sheri Lynch is something of a broadcast legend in these parts, the brilliant woman behind the syndicated "Bob & Sheri Show." Stuart and Sheri speak the same language when it comes to the crying need for good mental health care. Why? Because both had biological fathers with profound brokenness and addiction that wrecked their families. Maybe that's why "family" is a magical word for both Sheri and Stuart. But that doesn't make family easy! 

    51 min
  • Dr. Maggie - becoming a cancer patient changes this doctor.

    Dr. Maggie is one of Stuart’s closest friends. Kind and compassionate, a genuine healer, she’s the best that medicine has to offer in difficult times. 

      Some of Dr. Maggie’s empathy comes from having a problematic first labor and delivery, from surviving breast cancer and from having a sister with aggressive uterine cancer.    She is gentle but direct. And she has rich perspective. She’s a calming presence in challenging times. 
    39 min
  • Gay loses a brother, a husband and a son, but keeps her faith.
    Gay was just a little girl playing fairies under the grey moss when her mom told her to watch her little brother. She kept playing. The brother toddled into a pond and drowned. Thus began a lifetime of trauma, post trauma, shame, addiction, therapy, healing, faith and a miraculous belief in a benevolent universe. Powerful stuff. You're gonna wanna share this.    BE ADVISED: heavy discussion of loss and grief which may trigger some listeners. Also, audio recorded in the common space at C3 Lab in Charlotte's historic South End, so background noise will drive some audio nerds nuts. Stuart apologizes to audiophiles personally and promises never to do this again. 
    48 min
  • Tamrah Barber coaches a white man on navigating racial reconciliation

    Tamrah Barber is a Bronx, NY transplant who got herself elected senior class president in her mostly black Petersburg (VA) public high school.

    Ten years earlier Stuart, a native southerner, was student body president at his all-white private high school in Albany, GA.   So Stuart wades right in the middle of it, engaging his friend and mentor Tamrah on race, truth and what reconciliation requires.    Don’t bail on this conversation before the end! 
    59 min
  • Amy Rupertas Peacock makes history personal with her grandfather.

    Amy Rupertus Peacock and Stuart share a history from before either was born.

    Her grandfather Bill Rupertus was the commanding general in the bloody Battle of Peleliu where Stuart’s biological father was wounded in action.

    Now Amy is using original letters and photos to fight for family and honor.

    To her, history is personal.

    41 min
  • Sis Kaplan shakes up the "good ole boys" in radio, makes history.
    Sis Kaplan brought Rock N Roll and a fresh, new Big WAYS Radio to a cultural backwater called Charlotte. She faced sexism misogyny and anti-semitism at every step.  Stuart takes as much of Sis’ time as she has to spare to talk about the birth of WBBM radio on her grandmother’s rooftop in Chicago, playing softball with Edward R. Murrow, whether she prays, being called a “G=D Jew” in her own sorority, covering the Cubs and the White Sox as the first woman in the press box, her cigar chomping husband and partner Stan, and her daughter’s Bat Mitzvah in Israel. 
    50 min
  • Leigh Ann Walker turns to the Chicago Cubs to know her father.
    Leigh Ann Walker learned to toddle near the bases at Chicago’s Wrigley Field. Her father coached 3rd base for the Cubs but he died when she was just two years old. She grew up with no memory of him. Now at age 50, Leigh Ann herself is facing down breast cancer with a calm resolve and a clear recognition she has no time to waste.
    54 min

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One man commits to really listen to women - one at a time. IN HER WORDS features the life stories of strong women who bounce back. IN HER WORDS - because everyone deserves to be heard. Find us…