Joel and Karmela Waldman are mother and son co-hosts of their True Crime podcast called Surviving the Survivor.

Joel worked most recently as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for Fox News, covering national politics from Capitol Hill. He has also worked as an investigative reporter for Fox 5 in New York City and for TV-news programs in West Palm Beach, Miami, and Tucson. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, Ileana, and his three children, Vida, Zizi, and Juda.

Karmela is best known as Joel’s mom (Joel wrote this). But, she’s so much more!

A graduate of the University of Geneva, Karmela went on to get her masters in Social Work at Rutgers University. She’s both a licensed marriage therapist and Holocaust survivor. Hence, the podcast’s name, Surviving the Survivor.

Now from these guests you might have expected a pretty dry, uninteresting podcast, but it was one of those days everything went wrong technically - from inability to sign on to the recording program to improper syncing of voice and video and combined with Kamrela and Joel's senses of humor- leading to what I consider to be the best podcast we've ever done.

Link to the book Surviving the Survivor:

https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Survivor-Conversation-Holocaust-Therapist/dp/B0D3VMVM2T/ref=sr_1_1?crid=HXLB1GUAAM7X&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.JUU8BPhBhkLxg5vwvT2fAruoEoGn-l57lLdHMVnAETMQsSQ7ScF2PbT9hdoUxo2ouuqrfBt4U2qxsdzWIdtgD4WcN-eiOrcNB6glvQ9FvVhagapRw98HCQp09RnddDM4ytVnk3oy5RGEtYGD-JzaImD7uTKkMmkz1QVonWX8csRffNMWkQbqPHBZUz3GqZ3vXyssJMnlL5wFsD-JiC1LpR88VPOYBi8iEy_ZRvh3GBA.JK4_ie9MiSOqy3V-k8G8YH8eFWu3H4aQxQTPtmJrqEg&dib_tag=se&keywords=surviving+the+survivor&qid=1733420176&sprefix=surviving+the+survivor%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1