Rust Belt Love

By Rust Belt Love

Conversations about life, love and relationships for people over 50... more

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How many episodes does Rust Belt Love have?

The podcast currently has 36 episodes available.

Rust Belt Love episodes:

December 17, 2024 S2 E18 | It's That Time of Year Again
Well, we made it to another 18th episode! Sort of. We are re-releasing part of Episode 18 from Season 1 “The #!!@*&% Holidays” with an updated beginning section reflecting on 2024 and our intentions for 2025. We wish everyone a happy holiday season as we prepare for whatever 2025 will bring our way!
RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and
living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have lots of feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family, single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical
social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and
is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and conversations about life and relationships. Find and follow Rust Belt Love on
Instagram @RBLovePod
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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41min
December 03, 2024 S2 E17 | Getting Unstuck
Samantha’s friend and former colleague, Joanna Hardis, LISW-S, joins the pod to talk about her new book “Just Do Nothing: A Paradoxical Guide to Getting Out of Your Way”. Joanna is a local cognitive behavioral therapist who treats adults with anxiety disorders and OCD spectrum disorder. As you will hear, her book came from her own personal situation, when she had to apply the skills she teaches others to herself and her life. As relates to mid-life dating and relationships (and just life in general), she shares tips and tools in her book and in her (free!) mini-course for identifying what makes you anxious and the resulting reactions and behaviors that have become your automatic response through the years which may not be serving you well. She shares that you can train yourself to “do nothing” when chaotic feelings and thoughts start coming up so that you can better engage in experiences and situations that you might normally avoid or try to control.
Website: www.joannahardis.com
Instagram: @joannahardis
RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA.
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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37min
November 19, 2024 S2 E16 | The exExperts: They've Lived It, So They Get It
Today we welcome the exExperts, T.H. Irwin and Jessica Herzberg to Rust Belt Love. They are long time BFFs who got divorced at the same time and were lucky to have each other through the process. So, to pay it forward, they organized their divorce experiences and advice into a website chock full of information and resources, an online support network, a coaching program, a weekly newsletter, a web series and a podcast that helps folks who are thinking about getting divorced, are in the middle of divorcing and for those on the other side of divorce. And they are fun to spend an hour with and very honest about what they’ve been through and where their lives are now. Find exExperts on social media—links below:
Website: www.exexperts.com
Podcast
Instagram: @exexperts
TikTok: @exexperts

RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA.
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and conversations about life and relationships.
Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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46min
October 29, 2024 S2 E15: From 10m to Empty Nest
Cathy’s brother and sister-in-law join the pod to share their story of being the parents of two amazing kids, one who happens to be a highly competitive, skilled, and elite diver. From junior and high school levels to D1 college athletics and two Olympic trials, she excelled in the 10 meter platform event but has now moved on to medical school and hung up her shammy towel, leaving her parents to figure out what to do with their lives…

RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have lots of feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family, single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and conversations about life and relationships. Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle

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46min
October 15, 2024 S2 E14: Always Moving Forward
Today’s guest is Alison Battaglia, PhD, a fabulous single
woman with paraplegia. She talks with us about her marriage, divorce, and dating and shares her mid-life revelations about managing the intrusive questions and indecencies she’s been subjected to daily for almost 40 years—and take note, she has some really great come-backs. She is reflective on her life experiences and resiliency and optimistic and excited about her next chapters in love, life and career.
You can find Alison
Instagram @alibattaglia
Facebook: alison.battaglia.1
[email protected]
RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have many feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family, single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and conversations about life and relationships. Find and follow Rust Belt Love on nInstagram @RBLovePod
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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44min
October 01, 2024 S2 E13: Talking Menopause with Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg
Menopause and aging are coming out of the shadows with Gen X and Boomer celebrities talking candidly about it publicly and on social media and women reacting to ageist and misogynistic commentary making too many headlines these days. To start a conversation about this, we asked Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg to join us. She is a clinical psychologist and researcher at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center where she is the Chief of the Division on Behavioral Medicine in the Department of OB-GYN and professor of reproductive biology, urology and psychiatry at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She is an expert in female sexual disorders, menopause and reproductive mental health and has been working in this field for over 30 years.
Tune in to learn about GSM (genitourinary symptoms of
menopause), which she says 50-80% of women will develop symptoms of, and HSDD (hypoactive sexual desire disorder) and the array of treatments we are likely
not even aware of.
More about Sheryl Kingsberg, PhD
University Hospitals' menopause site
Dr. Jen Gunter ("Vagenda" newsletter) instagram @drjengunter
Terms and medications mentioned in this episode:
Intrarosa, Estradiol, Vagifem, Ospemifene, SERM (selective estrogen receptor modulator), Addyi, Vyleesi, AndroGel, Veozah, WASO (wake after sleep onset)
RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have lots of feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family, single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and
conversations about life and relationships. Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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46min
September 17, 2024 S2 E12: Burning it Down with Dr. Jennie Young
Jennie Young, PhD, is the founder of the Burned Haystack Dating Method (BHDM) and a writer and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin. She explores rhetoric, language and metaphor analysis and how it applies to dating in this day and age. She is also a daughter of the Rust Belt, a feminist and prolific
at using social media to get the word out about BHDM. We talk about the 10 BHDM rules, a few of the rhetorical patterns found in communications and profiles of men on the apps as well as the growing movement her method has fostered.
Jennie Young on Instagram @word_case_scenario
BHDM private Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/9116647515019601
Jennie’s Substack: https://burnedhaystack.substack.com/
RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have lots of feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family, single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and conversations about life and relationships.
Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Email us: [email protected]
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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41min
September 03, 2024 S2 E11: Rekindled & Reimagined Love
Cathy and her childhood neighbor and BFF, Kirsten,
reconnected a few years ago on Facebook after having lost touch for 30 (ish) years. The first thing Cathy noticed was that Kirsten was recently married and the man she married was the young man Cathy vividly remembered Kirsten being crazy for in high school. Kirsten shares her story of finding her way back to her first love, both having been through a few marriages and some hard times. She talks about what is different in their relationship now and how it's working out, eleven years in.
RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have lots of feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family, single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and
conversations about life and relationships.
Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Email us: [email protected]
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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38min
August 20, 2024 S2 E10: Public Service and the Single Woman
This episode will drop the
week of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, so we are featuring a
conversation with Meryl, who, as a young woman was twice elected to public
office and continued in public service after that. We talk about her experience
being young and single and navigating public life then (in the 1990’s)—dating,
rumors, men behaving badly—and semi-public life now. We also include a short
bonus conversation between Merle and Cathy about democratic presidential
nominee Vice President Kamala Harris and what we know about her single life as
a public figure, her later-in-life marriage and co-parenting in a blended
family.
Get all the info you
need to vote in November 2024 at either of these two links:
· Vote.gov
· League of Women Voters

RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and
living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have lots of
feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family,
single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical
social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and
DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field
of mental health therapy. She has two children.

Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and
is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.

Subscribe and tune in to hear their stories and
conversations about life and relationships.

Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Email us: [email protected]
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
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46min
August 06, 2024 S2 E9: A Primer on Man Parts
Hadley Wood, MD, Professor of Urology at Cleveland Clinic, joins us to discuss the basics of physical issues related to sex and sexuality that affect men over 50. It’s a technical and informative conversation touching on vasectomies, erectile dysfunction, the prostate, andropause and other fun stuff that wasn’t covered in 7th grade health class. We learned a lot and hopefully you will too.

RBL hosts Samantha and Cathy are both single, over 50 and living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, Rust Belt, USA. They have lots of feelings, thoughts and questions about love, friendship, relationships, family,
single life, dating and more…
Samantha is a master’s level independently licensed clinical social worker supervisor, licensed chemical dependency counselor supervisor and
DBT-Lineham Board Certified Therapist with over 20 years of experience in field of mental health therapy. She has two children.
Cathy is a program manager in a local healthcare system and is a certified yoga instructor and coach. She has four children.
Subscribe so you never miss an episode!
Find and follow Rust Belt Love on Instagram @RBLovePod
Email us: [email protected]
Podcast music: Outside Friend https://on.soundcloud.com/W197DLsn7WDGrJDo9
Podcast artwork: Good Parts @goodpartscle
...more
38min

FAQs about Rust Belt Love:

How many episodes does Rust Belt Love have?

The podcast currently has 36 episodes available.