MeaningMaker Podcast

MeaningMaker Podcast

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MeaningMaker Podcast episodes

  • Bonus Track: "Pillars"

    From Charlene's most recent digital album, "Imperfect".  Available for download on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you stream your music.  

    If you wish to support Charlene's music directly, visit charlenegingerich.bandcamp.com where 100% of every music purchase goes directly to the artist.

    Enjoy!

    6 min
  • S1/E9 Thank you, I'm sorry, I forgive you, I love you

    We’ll never have a more complicated, intricate relationship with any other human being as long as we live, than we do with our mothers. In this episode, you’ll hear how and why one of us lost our mother to her own grief and anger, for a time, after coming out – before we finally lost her forever to cancer, in 2019.

    49 min
  • S1/E8 Faith & Awakenings

    In this episode, we explore the individual faith journeys and difficult spiritual awakenings we each experienced - before we knew one another - and how they were a door to what became our journey together.  We mention God and sin a little.  But not in the way you might expect.  

    53 min
  • S1/E7 Revelations

    We're both walking around the house these days feeling a little bruised from everything the podcast is surfacing in us and for us.  In this episode, we stop to share some unexpected realizations brought to each of us through co-hosting the first several episodes.  

    55 min
  • S1/E6 The Affair

    In this unexpected episode, we acknowledge the truth of how our relationship started.  We talk about crossing moral boundaries, affairs, and whether the search was for another person - or for another self.  

    41 min
  • S1/E5 Love, in the End
    In this episode, we talk about the unanticipated depth of the grief of ending a first marriage - and how different the journeys to the end were for each of us.  The ending of a relationship taught us so much - not only about ourselves - but about love and the way it transforms.
    24 min
  • S1/E4 The Telling
    When we arrived at the decision to tell the truth, there was no right or gentle way to do it.  This episode honours the journey through the telling as much as it does the initial grace extended to us by our former husbands.  Love is a masterclass in acceptance.
    28 min
  • S1/E2 Courage Is A Muscle
    Join us for a far-reaching discussion about closets, courage as a muscle, and how the Universe conspires to give you exactly what you've asked for - though often, it doesn't look like what you've asked for.
    21 min
  • S1/E1 In The Beginning...
    In this opening episode, we talk about the origins of our story.  From moms in separate marriages to men - with children - to friends, to married to each other.  Listen in as we try to make some meaning of how we got from there to here.
    29 min

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Their lives were forever changed - by a closet. Listen in with hosts Jana and Charlene, now middle-aged and married to each other, as they have real and raw conversations about making meaning of the…