Women With Strength

This week's episode is a story of survival and forgiveness. Our guest will remain anonymous to protect the details of her story, and she will be referred to as Vicky. This is a very important story to us, and our guest's perspective on life is aligned with our reasons for starting the podcast. Our hope is through sharing these interviews, we can provide some support, insight, and hope to those who have been in similar situations. [Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of Violence and SA]

On this week’s episode we are joined by Becky Lipkin to discuss her journey through addiction, and how Alcoholics Anonymous saved her life.

Chelsea Navarro sticks around to join our discussion of the 2004 documentary "Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed".

On this week's episode Nancy Baer returns to join us in a conversation about friendship. Nancy and Nancy have been friends for 49 years, and have only lived in the same city for a year and a half when they were 19 years old. We will be discussing the ways they make their long distance friendship work, and the importance of finding a best friend.

On this week's episode we are joined by Emmie King. She joins us to discuss growing up with undiagnosed learning disabilities, selecting a path that allowed her to focus on her strengths and pivoting in an entirely new direction later in life due to circumstance. Emmie shares how sometimes a new direction may not be so new after all, and how she now sees her disability as her super power.

This week's episode features Tracey Hartzog, who joins us to share the story of her experience using an adoption agency, and how sometimes bending the rules can transform something good into something great - a lifelong friendship.

This week's guest is Kimberly Mobley, AIA. She shares with us her journey to becoming a licensed architect: from Clemson to Gantt Huberman, taking her seat at the table, the role architects have in resolving complex issues in our society, and carrying the legacy of her mentor Harvey Gantt.

In this week's episode our Woman With Strength is Chelsea Navarro. Chelsea joins us to discuss the challenges in becoming the primary care giver to her younger sister, when she was a teenager herself. Chelsea shares how this experience has informed her approach to becoming a mother, and some of the career choices she has gone on to make.

This week, our Woman with Strength is our very own Ashley McEneny - Nancy's daughter and Summer's bonus sister. Ashley joins us from Seattle to share a story about a time she made a CHOICE that is threatened in our country and has been reduced drastically or removed in many states (choosing our words for the algorithm). Tune in to learn how she made that choice, how she healed from her experience, and what the future holds for her.