Women With Strength

In this week's episode our Woman With Strength is Lori Avery. Lori joins us to discuss the work of Pat's Place Child Advocacy Center, an organization where Lori serves as Chief Development Officer, and a little bit about the path she followed to find herself advocating for child maltreatment.

Today we are unlocking the second episode of our Patreon. We do an additional episode each week for only $5 a month. Each of these episodes will be focused on conversations surrounding some of media that we are currently engaging with, to help us inform some of the conversations we are having with other strong women.

In this episode we discuss the 2014 documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry. You can subscribe to The Bloom through the link on our website.

On this week's episode Sally Syria joins us to discuss: growing up in eastern North Carolina in the 1950's, being an independent woman at a time when that was highly unusual, and her love of bourbon.

Hope shares with us her journey through the foster care system, the process of adoption, and her career as a social worker.

In this episode Nancy Baer sticks around to discuss the ground breaking 1970 book about women's health and sexuality Our Bodies Ourselves.

In this week's episode we feature our first Woman With Strength, Judy Martins. We are joined by her sister Nancy Baer to share her story and honor her memory. Our host Nancy has been best friends with Nancy Baer for 48 years, and in this episode they discuss some of the logistics of making a long term friendship work.

In this episode Nancy and Summer give you a rundown of who they are, how they came together, and the origin of the podcast. In addition they will cover some of what you may expect in upcoming episodes.