Roar with Katherine Kendall

Cleo Stiller has been an award-winning health, sex, and technology reporter for the ABC News/Univision joint-venture Fusion. Her acclaimed television show Sex.Right.Now. explores deeply personal and political stories about health and identity. We discuss her book Modern Manhood where she explores what it means to be a good man surrounding all the conversation around #MeToo

Drew is a producer, writer, mother, silence breaker. On December 14th, 2017 she was on the front page of the New York Times where she told Jodi Kantor that Russell Simmons raped her when she worked at Def Jam in the early 90's. We talk about what it took to come forward, to call out such a famous and powerful perpetrator, and her decision to no longer be governed by fear In every area of her life. Drew is featured with survivors Sheri Hines and Sil Abrams in the widely anticipated new documentary ON THE RECORD On HBO Max.The movie centers on allegations of sexual assault against Russell Simmons and is exquisitely directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering. The movie is released today. (5/27/20)

My guest today is Sally Taylor. She is a singer / songwriter and the founder of Consenses, a non-profit that engages artists from around the world to participate in a game of "Artistic Telephone", a way to use their different mediums to interpret one another's work. We talk about the pros and cons of being born into a family with 2 musical legends as parents ( Carly Simon & James Taylor)" and the film Born Into the Gig which explores that topic. She saw also shares Carly's songwriting advice, which consequently has become a mantra for her life.

In this episode I speak with Leslie Morgan Steiner. She is an author, consultant and thought leader on overcoming adversity and surviving violence against women. She talks about surviving domestic violence and we discuss her Ted talk on why people don't leave. We celebrate the fact that she finally did leave and lives to write a book about called Crazy Love. Her fourth book, The Naked Truth was just released and explores female sexuality after divorce. We agree that the business of being female is not for wimps. I admire the way she challenges the stereotypes of women, especially woman as they get older, leaving me with a newfound sense of hope, and even excitement at the idea of getting older.

In this episode I speak with Rosanna Arquette about everything because she's the kind of woman with whom you feel like you can talk to about everything. We talk about being empathic, to figuring out who our friends really are, to the brilliance of Apple TV's The Morning Show. We find ourselves agreeing that Quarantine is a time for sifting out what no longer works and cultivating the things that do. She shares about the grief of losing her sister Alexis, and her pride in the Alexis Arquette Family Foundation which is committed to the care and support of the LGBTQ+ community. Come listen to our convention.

A specialist in addiction, And Depth Psychology Carder Stout has been practicing in the Los Angeles area for many years. Also a writer, he just published his first book Lost in Ghost Town, a memoir, to rave reviews. Carder Is a frequent wellness contributor to Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle website Goop and has been featured on Larry King, Good Day LA and Us Weekly. He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and to superstar musician Alanis Morissette's health and wellness site Alanis.com. For more information about Carder and his practice go to http://drcarderstout.com/. Today we discuss his new book, and the dangers of addiction during this pandemic.

Today's episode is was made with the intention to inspire and elevate. I asked two of my best est friends to join me specifically for this this. Heather Reid is a singer songwriter who was diagnosed with AML (acute myeloid leukemia ) in 2018, and is now fully recovered. She has also been one of my closest friends for over 20 years. She shares how she got through intense fear, being quarantined, and how she found the gifts in the darkest of times. Suzanne Hesseloff has also been one of my closet friends for over twenty years, she is a therapist in los Angeles, and is also one of the wisest and warmest people I now. She was by Heather's side through the entire journey. I am always eager to hear healing nuggets from Suzanne.

Heather coincidentally just released single RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW., a beautiful and inspiring song she wrote her journey and recovery.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/right-here-right-now-single/1506411911

On this episode of ROAR with Katherine Kendall, we speak with guest Lou Godbold - trauma expert and my personal trauma guru. Today we discuss the survivor and the survivor brain, and how trauma survivors are particularly prepared for the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic

Louise Godbold is the Executive Director of Echo, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit that provides science-based parenting, trauma recovery, and resilience training to parents, educators, trauma survivors and recovery professionals from all over the world. She's also a Weinstein survivor. Since we met, she's been my guiding light, and she's also the person who asked me to start this podcast.

You can learn more about Lou and Echo on the Echo website, at echotraining.org.

Monica Ramirez is an activist, author, civil rights attorney, and social entrepreneur engaged in direct service and advocacy for farm workers, Latinas, and women. I learned about her work when I read her "Dear Sisters" letter in TIME Magazine, which helped spark the TIME'S UP movement. We spoke about the COVID-19 pandemic and the vulnerability of frontline workers, especially migrant and undocumented farmworkers. Monica explains why these essential workers are even more vulnerable now, how daytime panic-buying in some rural areas has left them to go hungry themselves, and what must be done in this moment to keep all the people who feed this country healthy, safe, and free from fear of enforcement actions that place them in even greater danger.

Lauren Sivan is a journalist and news anchor best known for her work on Fox News and KTTV, the Los Angeles Fox broadcast affiliate. She's almost as well-known for her sense of humor, appearing regularly as herself on Lights Out with David Spade, and as Queen Victoria and Barba Walters on Drunk History. She's also a Silence Breaker, and we talked about the unwillingness of Fox News, her employer at the time, to include her story in their coverage of Harvey Weinstein's history of harassment and abuse. We also talked about how much I wish she her own podcast or television show, so I could hear her take on everything every day. How do we make it happen? Hashtags, please! Twitter @laurensivan Instagram @idiotsivan IMDb https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4365438/