The Silver Linings Handbook

Today we're sharing a bonus episode from our December meetup in Atlanta with several podcasters where I facilitated a discussion on the motivations behind hosting and producing true crime podcasts. The panel included Brandon Hall from Music City 911 Podcast, Nina Innsted from Already Gone, Dana Poll from True Crime P.I., Robert Parmer from The Broken System Podcast and Jason Ursy from Santa Maybe, a Criminal.

For those of you who could not make it to the meetup in Atlanta, I want to share this illuminating panel discussion with you and share it for those who made it and would like to re-listen.

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Jayson is joined by Kristina Ralph, who works with leaders and others on the personality characteristics, can help people develop self-awareness and live better lives and Brittney Lawhorn, the Director of Operations at Goose Creek Consulting who also works with leaders and others who have those same goals. Today we're going to be using a framework designed by Dr. Bob Hogan, the founder of Hogan Assessments and we'll be exploring 11 personality tendencies that are core to our lives.

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In this episode, Jayson is joined by Brandon Schrand, an essayist, an award-winning author and the host of The Snake River Killer Podcast. In addition to hosting The Snake River Killer Podcast, Brandon is the communications director at the College of Agriculture, Hhuman and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington.

In a day and age where true crime podcasting and television has become mainstay, investigative podcasters take on a special burden of diving deep into emotional cases which takes a toll as they explore deep social issues and fight for justice.

We're going to look into those issues explore the emotional toll of working on these kinds of cases and discuss what podcasts like Brandon's are truly looking for on the inside and looking to accomplish.

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This is a bonus episode with Elizabeth McMaster, an attorney and an advocate who focuses on areas of law that intersect with Elder law, guardianship and mental health. Today we’re talking about a Virginia case that became national and international that she calls the granny kidnapping.

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Joining Jayson today is Elizabeth McMaster, an attorney and an advocate who focuses on areas of law that intersect with Elder law, guardianship and mental health. Elizabeth not only practices law in this area, but she has a true passion for helping people whose psychological, social and financial wellbeing are negatively impacted and the legal tools that exist that can be brought to bear to improve the welfare of others.

Today we're going to discuss the role that conservatorship and other similar tools play in society, that tension between individual rights, protecting individuals and what we can learn to make society a better place for those who are elderly and disabled.

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In this episode, Kevin Greenlee, an attorney, and Áine Cain, a journalist, and hosts of The Murder Sheet Podcast join Jayson to talk about their journeys and their backgrounds about what motivates them, about what brought them together as a team in life and in covering cases and about some of the challenges that are being faced right now by the news media. As they work to push against the headwinds of the social media environment and sensationalism, we're also going to talk about the importance of truth, pursuing it and finding the best version of it you can.

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Katie Moran is an author, speaker, social media influencer and an advocate for mental health, sexual assault and suicide prevention. Katie is a survivor of sexual assault, suicide attempts and suicidal ideation and has spoken with remarkable openness about her challenges with depression and anxiety in a world in which we can be prone at times to forget the stigma that still exists around these topics. We discuss stigma, healing and advocacy in these areas, the cost and value being vulnerable in the public sphere and using creativity to find healing.

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In this episode, Jayson is joined by Greg Lygon, a former member of Calvary Temple, a church in Sterling, Virginia that has spent more than a decade ensnared in scandals about emotional, sexual and physical abuse, controlling members and alienating them from the rest of the world.

They will talk about community, loss of power and religion, the prevalence of cults hidden behind buildings that look like any other religious organization, religious trauma in general and what happens to you emotionally and socially when religious leaders, the people who are supposed to guide us, our Shepherds, betray us.

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This is a Silver Linings Handbook bonus episode with The Murder Sheet Podcast with the hosts, Kevin and Áine. We talk about the Delphi Murders and the media circus surrounding them. This episode originally aired on The Murder Sheet but includes additional content for Silver Linings Handbook listeners.

I can remember the moments walking along a rural street in Leesburg, Virginia when I wondered what happened to those little girls in Delphi, Indiana.

Who videotaped their kidnapper on an abandoned railroad bridge? I thought it must have been solved. I was wrong. I quickly found out that The Murder Sheet Podcast owned the case of the deaths of 13-year-old Abby Williams and 14-year-old Liberty Germain. Kevin Greenlee and Áine Cain brought a journalist's perspective to the case unlike other podcasts I had come across. They were more ethical, honest and balanced. They were not sensationalists and advocates who were most of the people who filled the airwaves. They are also unbelievably empathetic people and have been a great support to me, especially since my mother's recent passing.

The sensationalism and absurdity among content creators has only gotten worse and some of the inappropriate behavior has spread to even the defense team for the man charged.

In this episode, we discuss the media circus surrounding this case and how it's not serving the defendant or the victims.

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Jayson is joined by Brett Tally, an author of several bestselling novels and anthologies including He Who Walks in Shadow, That Which Should Not Be and The Fiddle Is the Devil's Instrument. He has been twice nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement which is the top award for horror writing presented annually by the Horror Writers Association.

Brett is also the author of several true ghost stories and a nonfiction book called Haunted Tuscaloosa, which explores the paranormal in the Alabama town from the now shuttered local insane asylum in antebellum mansions said to be haunted by ghosts to cemeteries where confederate soldiers are still said to march and ghost stories from the University of Alabama Grounds.

Brett is an attorney and his interests include horror, science fiction, the paranormal and other whodunnit mysteries. He's the host of the Prosecutor's Podcast where he and his co-host Alice tackle well-known and less known true crime cases. But they also tackle some mysteries and some flat out hard to explain events.

Today we're going to continue our discussion about the paranormal, horror, science fiction and all that's mysterious and spooky both about fiction and in reality.

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Check out The Prosecutors podcast and The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs, both hosted by Brett and Alice.

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