Transformation Thursday

This week's show is a solo effort, with Penny Sterling reflecting on what's in a name if you're trying to change it, something less than magical that happened in The Magic Kingdom, and a a revisitation of her sexuality. 

(CW: A frank but unerotic discussion of sex and sexuality. Plus a couple of "S Bombs.")

In this episode Penny Gold joins Penny and Amy this week to talk about her life in Israel growing-up in an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect, her move to Brooklyn as a teenager, her experience coming out as transgender, her non-binary identity, and how she spent four months in Thailand during the COVID19 pandemic recovering from a surgical procedure. 

This is part two part our episode with Sue & Ted O'Brien, and in part two we all discuss Ted's at home recovery and Sue's continuing advocacy for her husband. 

Amy and Penny take a break from Transgender and LGBTQIA+ issues to discuss Ted O'Brien's battle with COVID-19. Not only do we look at Ted's battle with the disease but as well the story of Ted's primary caregiver Sue O'Brien who is Ted's wife, and with her background in healthcare what she did to advocate for her husband while he was in an induced coma and on a ventilator. This is a heartwarming saga of how modern medicine, advocacy, and the mind come together to heal the complete person. In part one we focus on the early stages for Sue and Ted of getting the disease and Ted's hospital confinement, and then in part two we will discuss Ted's at home remarkable rehabilitation.

In the first part of Transformation Thursday's first two part episode Amy and Penny take a break from Transgender and LGBTQIA+ issues to discuss Ted O'Brien's battle with COVID-19. Not only do we look at Ted's battle with the disease but as well the story of Ted's primary caregiver Sue O'Brien who is Ted's wife, and with her background in healthcare what she did to advocate for her husband while he was in an induced coma and on a ventilator. This is a heartwarming saga of how modern medicine, advocacy, and the mind come together to heal the complete person. In part one we focus on the early stages for Sue and Ted of getting the disease and Ted's hospital confinement, and then in part two we will discuss Ted's at home remarkable rehabilitation.

In this episode Amy addresses how she methodically approached her transition, and how she has faced some criticisms from the transgender community for getting facial feminization surgery. Penny in the second segment previews all the good things in her life that are going on this fall.

This week Amy Stephens has a special co-host in her BFF from England Emma Bruce. Emma and Amy discuss what it was like for Emma to come out as the world went into lock down due to COVID-19 and how things have worked out for her family. In the final segment of the show Amy and Emma discuss how the world view transgender woman, and how simple changes have a big impact on how the world views us.

With cohost Amy Stephens recovering from surgery, Penny Sterling strings together enough sentences to make a podcast.  Topics include:

This week on the podcast Amy Stephens takes a break from discussing transgender issues and sits down to chat with her friend Lisa Guetzko who lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. This episode is especially timely as we deal with COVID-19 and everything going on regarding the Black Lives Matters Movement and the push for equality in our society for everyone. Lisa talks very openly about what it is like for her to raise two biracial sons as a single mom in a town and school district that is predominately white, affluent, and so close to Minneapolis where George Floyd was murdered. 

In this episode of Transformation Thursday Penny and Amy discuss dating and their surgeries. Penny reviews her breast augmentation she had just over a month ago, and Amy previews her facial feminization surgery on August 17, 2020.