Stay Connected“We all have two lives. The second begins the moment we realize we have only one.”
Stories of people who have faced darkness and how those moments transformed them.
2 Lives is hosted and written by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Pod art and website designed by Christian Arnder, music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Copyright: © 2021
Sisters Rasha Pecoraro and Yvette Gentile have dedicated their lives to shining a light in the dark because that is what their mother deeply ingrained in them after she broke the shame cycle.
They've just released the second season of their podcast "Facing Evil." The sisters are better known for their first true crime podcast "Root of Evil," where they open up about their great grandfather's connection to the Black Dahlia murder.
I think you'll agree that 2 Lives and Facing Evil are kindred podcasts. I'm so excited to share their story with you in season 7 of 2 Lives coming up April 18.
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vespoli is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
A nurse teaches health professionals how to orchestrate a death after her two year old son died. She learned she had to experience his death with all her senses before she could accept and believe it.
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vespoli is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
Find out more about Jessica Diefenbach and Project 660 at our website 2lives.org.
Michelle Grua is a woman of science. As a pediatric anesthesiologist, for many years she believed only what she could see, hear, and touch. She trusted data and research. But when her dead husband reached out from beyond the grave in ways she could not deny, she had to reconcile science with the super natural.
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vespoli is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions and in this episode two songs courtesy of Michelle and Kenton Grua.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
TW: Mention of suicide. The national suicide prevention lifeline is 988.
Czarina Salido helps Native girls get to space camp because as a child she found solace in the stars but no one looked like her in her math and science classes.
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vespoli is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
Find out more about Czarina Salido and Taking Up Space on our website 2lives.org.
After hating her body for 35 years Adiba Nelson became a burlesque performer celebrating her curves and scars to show her daughter, who was born with a disability, how to embrace her own body.
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vispoli is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here.
Find out more about Adiba Nelson and her books at 2lives.org. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
This season is supported by the Women's Foundation for the State of Arizona.
Stephanie Keeler raises her two boys with fierce honesty after her own mother hid her depression. But it took facing her own suicidal ideations before understanding how her mom got to such a dark place.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 988. Go to 2lives.org for more resources.
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vispoli is the assistant producer. Annie Gerway is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
Kiersten Parsons Hathcock became a reluctant medium after she discovered an unexpected psychic talent. Today Kiersten helps investigators around the country solve missing children cases, and the spirits have helped Kiersten uncover and heal from her own traumatic past.
TW: We mention an incident of sexual abuse in this episode.
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vispoli is the assistant producer. Annie Gerway is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
Find out more about Kiersten Parsons Hathcock and the Women's Foundation for the State of Arizona at our website 2lives.org
2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." Stories of transformation.
Just a few months before her baby was due Maria del Carmen's own mother died. Still grieving the loss of her mom after her daughter's birth she spiraled into postpartum depression. It was in a moment of despair that she realized she needed two things: to connect with other mothers and her mother's recipes.
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vispoli is the assistant producer. Annie Gerway is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about Maria Del Carmen Parra Cano, the Cihuapactli Collective, and the Arizona Women's Foundation for the State of Arizona at our website 2 Lives.org
2 Lives - Storytelling Podcast about the moments that transform us. "We all have 2 Lives. The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."
We kick off our sixth season of 2 Lives December 13 celebrating stories of Arizona women.
When Maria del Carmen Parra Cano cooks, she thinks of her mom. It was her mother who taught her to cook. When Carmen battled diabetes, liver disease, and postpartum depression she turned to her mother's recipes -- corn mush and beans and cinnamon tea -- for comfort. Then she discovered if she tweaked the recipes just slightly, a miraculous thing happened. She could heal herself.
"At that point they took off the hyper tension medication and I no longer needed diabetes medication," María del Carmen Parra Cano said. "And it was just really, for me, it was an affirmation of food being used as medicine and healing my body. My husband, he's like, 'we need to help other people. Like how can we help other people?' And within a month we had a food truck and that was the birth of Sana Sana Foods and sanar in Spanish means to heal."
Season 6 is sponsored by the Women's Foundation for the State of Arizona. As a Nonprofit organization, WFSA invests in creating social, political, and economic change to achieve an Arizona where women and girls of all identities thrive. Learn more and donate at womengiving.org.
2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales, story edited by Ruxandra Guidi. Lauren Vispoli is the assistant producer. Annie Gerway is our illustrator and web designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions.
Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives
Drop us a note on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can learn how to support the show here. Episode transcripts are posted on our website.
We're busy working on the next season of 2 Lives which we will launch December 13. In the meantime we're bringing you a podcast by Jay Shifman. You may remember we featured Jay on 2 Lives at the end of June. He shared his story of realizing he'd been overmedicated and how he overcame his addiction to prescription pills. Jay is the host and producer of a couple different shows including "Choose Your Struggle" and "Made It." Today we're bringing you an episode of "Made It: Stay Savage," which spent four weeks on Apple's Top 200 list in its category. If you like this episode look for: "Choose Your Struggle Presents Made It" wherever you get your podcasts. And Jay says go back and check out episode one to get the background.
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