In Her Words

Lorraine hasn't put water on her garden in YEARS. It's THRIVING. Jun 29, 2023

I thought I was going to talk to Lorraine Walker Carpenter about saving a 150 year old log cabin.
Oh no.
We stumbled on something even more fascinating: her mystical connection to her organic vegetable garden which uses ancient natural techniques to use ONLY RAINWATER to grow a bumper crop of heirloom tomatoes, collards and other yummy veggies.
A perfect post summer solstice respite!

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How Simone Finch created SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE on HULU Jun 22, 2023

Simone Finch created the Hulu streaming series SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE based on her personal experience sobering up. She talks real talk about growing up in Boston, success as a writer, bipolar disorder, what her Father/spirit guide told her psychic, women in Hollywood, her Mom’s superpower with customer service, the Writers’ Strike, “California Sober,” the shmuck in Charlotte who wouldn’t follow her west, what AI can never do, and Matzoh Ball Soup. Plus she says I ask really good questions. So there ya have it. An instant classic.

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Bea McCormack: The Candyman & The Klan Jun 15, 2023

Bea McCormack’s brother Bob brought us peppermint candy canes for Christmas … by the millions. But the real stories of Bob’s Candy Co. start with a grouchy Black candy master and a white Roman Catholic Priest, her uncle, who proved to be quite the inventor…and even appeared on the TV quiz show “What’s My Line?”

Great STORY!

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Jen Olin Lafontaine Likes A Good Death Binder Jun 08, 2023

Jen Olin Lafontaine is as practical as she is creative. She values KINDNESS above all else so she and I agree with the Dali Lama: Our religion is KINDNESS.

So she knows…as I have experienced… that leaving a detailed DEATH BINDER with alllllll your wishes is one of the kindest things you can do. Don’t fret. There’s a WHOLE BUNCH OF LIFE in our chat complete with long drives with a 15 year old and dancing your little ole heart out! (Her idea of a great funeral is a BIG DANCE!) It could be worse! ;-)

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Lauren Ansley: Bringer of Joy (even to Corporate Events!) HA! Jun 01, 2023

Lauren Ansley has expanded from standup comedy to bringing JOY (not just laughs but real bonding experiences that include inspirational twists) to corporate events. We talk about her new love interest and she sounds positively giddy. Fingers crossed. This guy sounds like the real deal. GOOD LUCK LAUREN!!!

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When Wendy Swanson's Dad (finally) said "I Love You." May 25, 2023

Dads and daughters can be TOUGH. Dads can shut down. For years, decades, lifetimes. I know. I am one. X4. That’s FOUR grown kids for whom I’m sure I was at one point or another “emotionally unavailable.

That’s why Wendy Swanson’s story of making peace with her Dad meant so much to me. Peace is possible. Amends. Reconciliation. Clinging to the good times, the glimmers of light and hope. Wendy is a Yoga Instructor, Acupuncturist, Breast Cancer Survivor, Wife, Mom, Sister and a Good Daughter. It all took work.

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Lucretia Carter Berry: Can We Talk Black Hair? May 18, 2023

Lucretia Carter Berry went to an HBCU, then married a white guy who became a Youth Minister and they have three daughters and oh I had SOOOOOOOO many questions. She started giving moms straight talk about curly hair and wound up writing books and teaching classes to fight racism. She might be banned in Florida but thank God she’s still teaching in NC schools! To get to know her is to love her. So take an hour and get to know her! Google: Brownicity (her group)

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Alara Vural ROARS (in crisp proper English) May 11, 2023

Alara Vural is 1/2 Turkish, 1/2 British and 100% delightful. I’d listen to her read the phone book. She’s missing her calling as a voiceover artist!

We talk housework (she hates it), her local pub (she adores it) and marketing messaging (her SUPERPOWER). Then we talk about God, the Universal Spirit and connecting with all that. WOW!!! It’s a LOT Y’ALL!

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Roxanne McDonald on Overdoses, Families, Interventions May 04, 2023

Roxanne and Stuart speak from tough personal experiences on the front lines on when and how to intervene in a loved one’s drinking and drugging.

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Roxanne McDonald Laughs, Cries, Laughs, Cries Apr 27, 2023

Roxanne McDonald was beaten by her father, left home as a teen to become a cocktail waitress, disappeared into full blown alcoholism, gave birth to a daughter, went to prison in California, regained custody of her daughter, became a GOOD mom, and went on to become a Sober Coach, Family Coach and Interventionist…and oh yeah, a comic. She’s been clean and sober by God’s grace and a whole lot of anonymous folks for 25+ years.

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Cara's COMEBACK: from bankruptcy, divorce, and losing her sister. Apr 20, 2023

Cara Truitt filed for bankruptcy, divorce and then her sister was killed in a car wreck…all in ONE WEEK. That was more than a decade ago.

Since then she’s married a great guy (“my rock”); they’ve had a son and a daughter together, AND she’s launched multiple businesses. It took time. It took grit. It took an amazing community of women which Cara built.

Listen to her testimony of the power of women in community!

You can find Cara Truitt on LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook and at her business https://www.artofyouretreats.com

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Lianne Hofer Chooses Happiness Apr 13, 2023

How do you find peace, even happiness in the midst of terrible trauma? Lianne Hofer says it’s like falling through the ice. First you get out. Then you warm slowly.
Her amazing restorative energy after severely damaging abuse.
Her latest essay appears in the book STOP THE SILENCE: THRIVING AFTER CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE with Dr. Pamela J. Pine.

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Megan Miller's Son Fights Cancer but Don't Call Her Supermom. Apr 06, 2023

Marketer Megan Miller put her skills to work for Claire’s Army and other pediatric cancer causes after her own son was forced to fight cancer. She talks real life about what pulled her family through and what did not help. Also her love of Opera and why she remains a person of faith and a devout Catholic after trying times.

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Kim DeRhodes- Expert on Healing and Harm from Nutritional Supplements Mar 30, 2023

Kim DeRhodes trained for years getting her degree from UNC-CH as a licensed pharmacist when she noticed that no one ever taught her about the exploding world of herbal and vitamin and mineral remedies flooding the counters of health food and drug stores. So she did her own research and soon became the go-to expert at the hospital for doctors and other treating professionals who wanted to know how these “nutritional supplements” interacted with prescription drugs. Kim gives us the good and the bad. Illuminating conversation!

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Betty McKemie, WWII Bride (reprise) Mar 24, 2023

My dear family friend Betty McKemie, died last Friday in Asheville at the age of 96.

In this interview she recounts her personal experiences during the bombing of her home town of London, England and her arrival in NY Harbor as a “war bride.”

She had five children, 11 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.

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Dr. Andrea DeSantis: Compassion Heals Mar 23, 2023

Dr. Andrea DeSantis (no relation to Ron) took a sharp turn to Med School from studying Hotel Management at Penn State.

Now she treats patients, many of them immigrants, quite sick, but without a whole lot of money. She does so with great care and compassion.

I don’t know how she maintains such an unruffled demeanor. Listen to some of her stories!

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Dr. Hannah Brandt lost 60 lbs and STILL eats potato chips! Mar 16, 2023

Dr. Hannah Brandt failed again and again at losing weight. So she hired the help she needed and dropped 60 pounds…not all at once…but she has kept it off. We talk about butt-kicking hikes in National Parks and how she still loves good kettle cooked potato chips and how she helps other women lose the weight and keep it off.

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Kristen Lampert: Parental Shift Coaching Mar 09, 2023

Kristen Lampert became a mom “in the bottom of the ninth inning” so to speak after a heartbreaking series of tries with IVF (in vitro fertilization). Now she coaches high performing parents on how to stop frantic juggling and lead more peaceful, balanced lives.

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Marisa Wheeling Ciesluk: Fire Starter Mar 02, 2023

Marisa Wheeling Ciesluk could have been insulted when her boss called her a “fire starter.” It probably was not meant as a complement.

Now she has taken it as a badge of honor and her unique mission: to stoke the fires of true passion in the hearts of women. But first she had to face and honor and heal her own history of childhood abuse.

A powerful conversation with a steadfast and powerful woman.

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Rachel Hatteburg Walt: The Human Design Experiment Feb 23, 2023

Rachel Hatteburg Walt invites us to learn a lot more about how our energy works through our personality by way of The Human Design Experiment.

From passion to vocation to making the most of our hidden talents, you’ll see applications everywhere.

Rachel invites us to download a FREE personalized chart at Craftingood.com

Enjoy!

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Alina Doran, Ukrainian Immigrant, NYU Grad, Executive Coach. Feb 16, 2023

My fellow Squad Members kept stopping me at the GRAB LIFE BY THE GOALS SUMMIT kicking off the New Year and saying, “You’ve GOT to talk to Alina Doran!” So I did! And I was suitably impressed.

We’d known each other for two days before I learned that A) she survived a thyroid cancer scare and B) she immigrated from Kyiv where she lived as a girl during the infamous Chernobyl nuclear disaster. You buried the lead there Alina!

We talk about her girlhood experiences with anti-semitism and her important work elevating the best in humanity now as an Executive Coach. Memorable conversation!

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Bronwyn Hinton BONUS Feb 10, 2023

Bronwyn Hinton on her late husband, artist Steve Hinton.

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Bronwyn Hinton, southern chef, talks fried quail and pigs’ feet (but no eel). Feb 09, 2023

Bronwyn Hinton grew up in Chattanooga, moved to Texas when both of her parents died, went to college at Vanderbilt and moved with her husband Steve to NYC. When they had children the couple moved to Albany, GA, my home town. We talk frankly about “the trailing spouse” and how she fell in love with South Georgia and how she reinvented herself as a chef. Then in bonus tracks she talks about her late husband Steve Hinton and his unique art.

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Tamara Park Makes Storytelling a Superpower Feb 02, 2023

Tamara Park is a master storyteller: on video, in book form, and live in person. She’s travelled all over the world capturing the tough stories of refugees from war, famine and sex trafficking. Now she empowers others to tell their own stories after studying the neuroscience of story. Hint: storytelling benefits both the teller and the audience by bathing the brain in positive, natural mood elevators like dopamine. Fascinating! You’ll feel better just hearing Tamara!

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Kathleen Murray Moran: Widowed by a Terrorist Bomb Jan 26, 2023

Kathleen Murray Moran’s first husband was an NYPD Bomb Squad technician killed in the line of duty by a terrorist bomb. She has written a superb memoir of the tragic loss of her husband Brian Murray after terrorists placed a bomb in Grand Central Station.

Our conversation starts with her bleak childhood in a Bronx basement and how her lifelong love of reading and writing took her to college at age 30. It’s the story of a gifted and disciplined writer who has mastered the craft of non-fiction narrative.

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Betsy Hauser: Founder and CEO of a Tech Company Jan 19, 2023

Betsy Hauser (HOO-zur) knows what it’s like to be passed over in the hyper-masculine world of tech just because she’s a woman. She stuck around to found and run her own company TTS - Tech Talent and Strategies - and to lead programs that taught thousands of women to code. She believes coding should be taught alongside any other language in school. And she’s living proof that more diverse companies are more nimble and creative companies. We talk in her parents' home with 270 degree views of Lake Norman. A fun and illuminating conversation.

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Cheryl Brayboy: The Only Black Kid In Her Elementary School Jan 12, 2023

Cheryl Brayboy is no typical TV anchor at WBTV. She went to an Ivy League School (U. Penn). She has a Ph. D. She attended one HBCU (Spelman College) and now teaches at another (Johnson C. Smith University). We talk bluntly about race, slave narratives (about which she is well-versed) and pathways to racial healing - oh, and also about why she never dated a white boy in her almost all-white high school. (Hint: it was NOT because they didn’t ask!)

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Kelly Finley's Bada** Women in Erotic Thrillers Jan 05, 2023

Kelly Finley says she writes about “badass women and grown ass men” in a genre known as “EROTIC THRILLERS.” This ought to boil your kettle. Stuart asks if there’s any such thing as an empowered, self-actualized stripper. Of course there is!

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Kelly Finley Empowers Women Dec 29, 2022

Kelly Finley came highly recommended by one of our most powerful podcast guests ever - USMC veteran Erin Cobb, who survived two gunshots to the head from her ex-husband. Kelly taught Erin Women’s Studies at UNCC, but there’s some question of just who taught who more. The two have become fast friends and mutual admirers. When Erin was lying in a hospital bed fighting for life, Kelly Finley was there. To say they are friends doesn’t do justice to the relationship. But this interview is about Kelly and what made her the amazing woman she is today.

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Dominique Johnson Gives Grace Dec 22, 2022

Dominique Johnson ran away from home barefoot, unable to stand a mother who had at times whipped her bloody. Yet by the time she had a daughter of her own, she found a way to let go of a lifelong resentment and invite her mother into their lives. How did she find the strength to let go and grant her mom Grace? That’s a great story...

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Diana Li, Phd Dec 15, 2022

Diana Li can’t wait to get home to the Hudson River Valley of New York and her Chinese immigrant parents cooking! Now she has a Phd and a post-doc at Duke to give her all the credentials you could ever want to explain how her mom and dad’s own cooking isn’t just delicious, it can help her (and others) live a longer, healthier, HAPPIER life!

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Jessica Lackey Dec 08, 2022

Jessica Lackey went to the famous Harvard Business School and learned about consulting at the famous McKinsey and Company. Then she worked in leadership positions at places like Nike. Then she decided to take care of herself first. This is what the best of Feminism looks like. Listen closely especially towards the end.

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Molly Ruggere Brings The Alcohol-Free Party Dec 01, 2022

Molly Ruggere founded CounterCulture Club as an alcohol-free alternative and works as a certified Sober Coach - not for hard core alcoholics bound for detox or rehab - but for Millennials and Gen Z (Zedheads? Zoomers?) - who just find life without booze to be liberating and a whole lot easier.

Stuart and Molly venture way beyond the outdated either/or of partiers vs. puritans to wander around in the “grey zone.” An illuminating conversation between a boomer man (Stu) and a millennial woman (Molly) learning from each other.

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Mar survived a hate crime, now works for peace. Nov 25, 2022

My friend Mar lives on the left coast in Washington state and survived an anti-semitic shooting rampage. It changed Mar. They now work for peace among all people. I met them in the overlapping worlds of adoption and addiction recovery.

It’s taken this old boomer a few tries to get the pronouns straight! But I’m a huge fan of Mar and we’ve learned from each other. I think you’ll be inspired as well.

Mar invites you to listen to their podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YYURVCddlb0Z8hdvCpT05

Happy Holidays everyone! No re-runs here on the big podcast. We’re coming up on THREE YEARS of new episodes EVERY WEEK (even when I had COVID or was on the road!!!)

This episode brought to you by (among others) VOICELOCKET.COM

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Erin Cobb Nov 17, 2022

USMC Iraq War Vet Erin Cobb can still describe the admirable qualities of the man who shot her twice in the head. It was her ex, a man once known as “GI Jeremy,” himself a Marine veteran of Iraq and ex-CMPD cop.

Erin walks us through their infatuation, love affair in a war zone, marriage, breakup, divorce and his obsessive stalking that culminated in an attempted murder suicide.

This is absolutely NOT a crime/murder podcast. It’s a compelling story of a complex and courageous woman who experienced profound trauma, healing. resilience and triumph. It both shocks and inspires.

TRIGGER WARNING: EXPLICIT REFERENCE TO WAR, GUN VIOLENCE AND SUICIDE.

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Erin Cobb. Nov 10, 2022

Erin Cobb survived Iraq only to be shot twice in the head by her ex - also a US Marine she met in the war zone. She survived. Her ex shot himself and died. But to really understand her story, you need to hear from Erin herself about how she joined the Marine Corps and met her ex-husband. We start there in the first of two episodes profiling this exceptional woman whose self awareness and courage and resilience is nothing short of breathtaking.

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Kristin Winkle Beck's Own Great Resignation Nov 03, 2022

After years, even decades of working for The Man at one of those “too big to fail” places, Kristin Winkle Beck bailed for her own sanity and well being. Now she feeds her soul in the non-profit world but she and her husband also operate a very much for-profit franchise. She calls it a “portfolio career.” I just call it fascinating. HEADS UP: This episode comes with a companion BONUS EPISODE with Kristin’s VERY useful advice on using LINKEDIN - a platform she calls her “favorite social media.” Spoken like a true entrepreneur! Check it out as well!!!

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BONUS EPISODE - Kristin Winkle Beck on LinkedIn Nov 03, 2022

BONUS EPISODE - Kristin Winkle Beck's VERY useful advice on using LINKEDIN - a platform she calls her “favorite social media.”

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Eileen Carpenter registered Black voters in Mississippi. She could have been murdered for it. Oct 27, 2022

Eileen Carpenter’s epiphany came when she heard a Southern Belle at Vanderbilt bragging about her horse. She did the math. The animal was worth more than her parents’ house. And her parents were both college educated professionals. They worked at a university. But Eileen and her parents were Black and living in Nashville in the 1960’s.

Eileen’s experience at Vanderbilt University was so painful she did not return for more than two decades. She went back, she says, to face down the ghosts. She’s glad she did. She called our interview “cathartic.”

This is the very history some people are trying to keep out of our schools. It’s important to hear.

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Amy Kurland founded the legendary Blue Bird Cafe Oct 20, 2022

I met Amy Kurland’s sister Wendy before I ever knew her. But I’ve known Amy for well over a quarter century. Nashville music people are as open and giving and generous and humble as bi-coastal superstars are….not. I generalize. I’d love to be proven wrong.

We talk about her father playing string parts for Patsy Cline, her watching Johnny Cash up close taping his TV show, as well as Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, and my personal crushes, Marshall Chapman and Mary Gauthier.

In short, a name dropping extravaganza between a couple of old pals. SO FUN! If you love music of any kind and value songwriting, do not miss a moment.

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Tiffany painted her nails and prepped enough pills to kill herself. The Universe intervened. Oct 13, 2022

Tiffany Carter’s mother dressed her in a hot pink micro-miniskirt and sent her on a date with a 23-year old man. She was 11. Thus began a decade of hellish sexual abuse.

As an adult, Tiffany had all the trappings of success. She kept it together on TV, at five star restaurants, on private jets and in multi-million dollar mansions. Beneath the facade, she plotted suicide.

This is the miraculous story of how The Universe intervened and slowly, surely, with the help of many, many people, Tiffany did not merely survive. She thrived - and is now the Founder of the top business coaching brand and podcast, ProjectME with Tiffany Carter. (And she coached Stuart).

Check out her Instagram: @ProjectME_with_Tiffany , her podcast by the same name (this week with STUART!) and her website https://projectmewithtiffany.com/

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Miss Teen USA Charlotte Caroline-Myers Ashing makes peace with herself Oct 06, 2022

A teenager uses a beauty pageant as a means to confront her own eating disorder.

Once upon a time beauty pageant contestants starved themselves to compete.

Meet a new kind of beauty queen: Caroline-Myers Ashing who says the pageant actually helped her confront her own anorexia - and get well.

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Karen Weeks Puts Humanity Back in HR. Sep 29, 2022

Karen Weeks is the Chief People Officer at a startup, Ordergroove, dedicated to building amazing cultures. She is determined to inject some human kindness back into the world of “Human Resources” or HR. Stuart pushes back with some HR nightmares and Karen sympathizes. It’s quite the lesson! You can also find Karen at her new coaching business:

https://www.karendweeks.com/

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Charlene Jefferson on God’s Will & Big Data Sep 22, 2022

Charlene Jefferson was climbing the corporate ladder. Then she stopped to ask, “Why?” The resulting pivot brought her closer to family, faith and her true self. Now she helps others in a new coaching program she’s designed herself. Stuart engages Charlene in a conversation on practicing faith in the workplace.

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From Rob to Robbi Sep 15, 2022

I knew Robbi when she was Rob and her pronouns were “he” and “him.” Now he wears heels and occasionally dresses “to the nines” for clubbing on Saturday night in downtown Charleston or church on Sunday morning. As a job, she drives a truck. So she says truck stops can be tricky for trans people. We get personal - like how her wife and son reacted when Rob became Robbi - and how 12 step recovery groups welcomed her. An intimate conversation between two old friends.

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Jessye Wilden adopts her niece and nephew after their parents homicide/suicide. Sep 08, 2022

Jessye Wilden was pregnant, living in her in-law’s garage apartment in Mount Shasta, California, when she got the phone call that her brother-in-law and sister-in-law would not wake up. They were covered in blood. The caller: Jessye’s 11-year old niece, who found her parents and called her aunt.

Jessye and her husband did not merely comfort the children and take them in. She adopted them. She made them her own. She consoled them. She comforted them. She parented. And she did the most amazing thing of all - she found grace and hope when most of us would be shattered and bitter. Now she’s chronicled the uplifting story of resilience in a forthcoming book: WE WROTE YOUR NAME IN COLOR.

WARNING: EXPLICIT DISCUSSION OF SUICIDE.

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Lauren Widrick inspires others to follow. Sep 01, 2022

Lauren Widrick bailed on banking. How did she feel? Terrified. Exhilarated. Wouldn’t change a thing. She’s gone from coach to a kind of cheerleader in the best sense. Her enthusiasm is palpable. Infectious. Now she’s created THE SQUAD to “GRAB LIFE BY THE GOALS.” Stuart is all in.

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Kim Honeycutt Aug 25, 2022

Kim Honeycutt has been shamed by her mother and shunned by her church. She self-medicated with alcohol. She got sober through a miracle of grace and has brought hope and healing to many. As a licensed therapist she points out that PTSD is the one disorder directly associated with substance use disorder (aka addiction). But she found little in traditional 12 step literature to directly address shame and trauma. So she got to work.

Kim Honeycutt is a therapist, founder, author, AND podcaster! Look for her book BUT YOUR MOTHER LOVES YOU and check out her conversation with Stuart on her podcast FLIP YOUR LID WITH KIM HONEYCUTT this week!

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Bryant Resch called BS on her BS (Bachelor of Science) and shifted to Reki Aug 18, 2022

Bryant Resch got one degree studying neuroscience. Then she started on another degree in biology. She was on her way to a Masters when her parents abruptly divorced. The shock sent her down a completely new path - Reki. We sit in the boathouse at Sun City and Bryant retraces the long path there which includes a horse (and a house) in the beautiful part of New Jersey, meeting her man at the DoubleDoor, and standing courtside watching the Golden State Warriors.

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Tidy Tessi worked for the man until she became her own brand Aug 11, 2022

Years ago I would chat with Tessi at the Einstein Brothers bagel shop on South Boulevard in Charlotte. After decades of working for the man, she became her own woman. Her daughter encouraged her to become her own brand “Tidy Tessi,” like the also alliterative “Molly Maids” but she’s local, original, real and personable. Tessi talks about the loss of her son to a gunshot and how she was able to go on for her four other children.

Now Tessi has come a long way to be “happier than ever.” A real inspiration!

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Kendall Kendrick on Po' Folks, Underground Raves, Rock N Roll Radio, Miscarriage, Motherhood, and the Ancestors (It's a lot y'all) Aug 04, 2022

The Golden Voice, the mellifluous tones I could listen to all day, speaks to me over the cicadas at Latta Nature Preserve (her happy place). We laugh and almost cry and talk about the time she almost died in an ER and why the US Healthcare system turns its back on women, especially mothers of color. And we summon the ancestors - especially the mothers of mothers of mothers of mothers of…you know, the matriarchy.

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Kelly Turner, a cancer survivor, pays it forward with her own charity Jul 28, 2022

When New Haven, CT police woman Kelly Turner was first diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, it wasn’t just cops who stepped up to support her. It wasn’t just her church or her friends. It was complete strangers. The outpouring of support blew her away. So when she got back on her feet, she vowed to pay it forward. Two decades later her CHAIN charity is still planning charity fundraisers including her trademarked BREAKFAST AND A MOVIE! If you think people aren’t capable of caring and doing amazing acts of goodness, listen up!

The Chain Fund

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Molly Barker is right where she should be Jul 21, 2022

Molly Barker founded Girls On The Run. It helped millions. Then she left her home of Charlotte, NC for tiny Marfa, Texas and a spiritual journey back to herself. She returns to #CLT years later a new person getting back to her roots. We instantly connect over spirituality, sobriety, and loving to “poke the bear.” Our wide ranging conversation moves seamlessly from her rage over the Supreme Court overturning Roe to toppling the pillars of white supremacy to her mom’s blunt honesty to why she gives a shit what anyone thinks.

White Supremacy Culture

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Nancy Day shares her wounds and healing on adoption, reunion, alcoholism and recovery Jul 14, 2022

Nancy Day’s mother never held her, not even for a moment. She thought it would just make it too hard to do what she had to do next: give her up for adoption. At midlife Nancy reunites with her birth mother and discovers a woman with few regrets. Nancy herself has one flash of insight after another about identity, pain, healing, addiction, trauma, and recovery. A rich, rich life as a full contact event - no running. No hiding.

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Caroline Noble's husband died and there was no one to hug. How she learned to dance again. Jul 07, 2022

Caroline Noble’s husband had both pancreatic cancer and Alzheimer’s. So in a cruel joke, she had to repeatedly tell him he was dying… over and over again. On the flip side, he spent many of his days unaware how short life was - which led to uncommon laughter, surprise and adventure. A natural born storyteller, Caroline frames the terrible year in the concept of home and the family cottage on Lake Wylie. When her husband died, she reframed and rediscovered a new home for herself and her wonderful dog Star (who sits in on the interview)!

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Betsy Thorpe: Editor, Writer, Loves a Good Story, Hates the Sound of Chewing (misophonia) Jun 30, 2022

Betsy Thorpe did an AWESOME job editing my new children’s picture book called Sofia Loves Tortillas. Molly Grantham at WBTV recommended her. She’s worked with some real big-time authors and publishers. She’s now in the midst of her own three-book deal meaning she’s got to write every single day. And she loves it. So if you have any interest in writing, publishing, storytelling, TV, film, you’ll enjoy this.

Along the way we talk lots of shop from Chaucer to Tolkien to C.S. Lewis like a couple of old English majors. We start with her misophonia (when the sound of chewing makes you furious) which she did not even know was a real thing until like five years ago. You’ll like Betsy. She’s got a lot to say. And I’ve got a lot to learn!

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Dee's ex kept beating her. So she shot him. She still regrets it. Jun 23, 2022

Dee could sign before she could speak as a #CODA - the child of a deaf adult, her mother. She had two children by the time she was 16 and moved out.

Then about 20 years ago she shot and killed her ex with a sawed off shotgun. He kept punching her in the face and chest when she was pregnant. She says it was self defense, that she was worried he would kill her, the unborn child and her kids.

She gave birth to that child while in the custody of the county jail, and had to hand over the baby on her way to a lengthy prison sentence.

If you meet her today you would never in a million years guess that any of that happened. Dee talks about how she did her time, made honor grade, got into a half way house, landed a job and made amends to the daughter whose father she killed. It has not been easy. She is strong. A huge believer in prayer, resilience and making the most of second chances.

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Liza Donovan illustrates SOFIA LOVES TORTILLAS (my new children's book under the pen name B.B. Bowen) Jun 16, 2022

Liza Donovan is a world class artist who won a competition to produce one of five official posters for the Women’s March in 2017. Her poster of a raised black fist and flame producing a dove has been used all over the world!

So I was VERY impressed when my friends Leigh Ann and Tom introduced me to Liza. She was the perfect choice to illustrate my very first children’s picture book: SOFIA LOVES TORTILLAS (available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Indiebound.org or bookshop.org). Liza and I talk about art and inspiration and (of course) about creating SOFIA! A really fun conversation!

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Dr. Alice Yu, recent Duke Med grad, talks Chinese vs. Western Medicine, the Best Possible Death, and A Capella Groups Jun 09, 2022

Dr. Alice Yu tears up as we talk about the loss of a patient. We venture into what Western Docs might learn from Chinese medicine, and her decision to treat kids with cancer. It’s a conversation that’ll make you feel better about the next generation of doctors coming up!

Dr. Alice was the musical director of an A Capella group at UNC Chapel Hill, so we also talk Broadway musicals. Well rounded conversation.

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Rachel Clapp Miller’s MOM taught her sex ed at school; then she won a role as an intern in the Clinton White House Jun 02, 2022

Rachel Clapp Miller carried the hidden camera in her purse for our investigative report on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board boozing it up at public expense. The report won an Emmy and a National Headliner Award. Yet the poor woman got very little credit! Plus she had to work with ME! (No easy task) Rachel agreed to be a developmental producer for this podcast. We start with her MOM being her SEX ED teacher in NY public schools (YIKES) and move on to her internship in the post-Lewinsky Clinton White House. Then we get to whether I shouted AT her in the newsroom. It’s a fun convo. Enjoy.

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Barbara Meislin, the Purple Lady By The Bay, helps #grieving families find joy May 26, 2022

To Barbara, purple means joy. So she brings as much purple into her own life and the lives of others as she possibly can. It started with the death of her child. Now she devotes her remaining years to navigating the inevitability of loss with love and compassion.

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Marie Bailey on Jesus, Mandela and America now May 19, 2022

Forgiveness. Racial reconciliation. Peace.

If ever we needed calm words, it’s now.

Marie Bailey brings personal history with a message of hope.

She’s s a psychologist and Christian missionary from South Africa now working with her husband at City Church Charlotte in the US.

Seems only appropriate we hear a Christian perspective this week. After all, two weeks ago we heard from a “Jewish American Redneck.” Last week we heard from a Muslim woman from Texas. This week: an evangelical Christian serving as a missionary in the American South.

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Sara Surani co-creates @sheistheuniverseproject to empower girls all over the globe May 12, 2022

Sara Surani is the daughter of Muslim immigrants who relocated from Pakistan to TEXAS! Sara takes her commitment to service seriously, graduating from Harvard to take on seemingly intractable global challenges with a spirit of love and hope. Oh yeah - and she tells THE BEST mansplaining story EVER. Do not bail before you hear this y’all. I have not laughed that hard in a long while!

She is the Universe: www.sheistheuniverse.org / @sheistheuniverseproject

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Virginia Stern of Opelika, Alabama: “Jewish American Redneck” May 05, 2022

Virginia Stern describes herself as a “Jewish American Redneck,” an Alpha Female who survived breast cancer. Her father barely made it on the boat escaping Nazi Germany only to settle in (of all places) Opelika, Alabama. His story is now part of a musical theater tribute to the family. She and her brother carry on his legacy of public service through the Henry J. Stern Family Foundation.

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How Kat Weeks' business made one of Oprah's "favorite things" Apr 28, 2022

Kat Weeks gives a master lesson in turning art into commerce without losing your soul (or your personal life). She identifies as an artist. She introduces herself as a small business owner (Addison Weeks jewelry, Modern Matter Hardware). She is most proud of being a good daughter, sister, wife and mom. And her kids are proud of her. How she and her partner did it.

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HOPE means "Hold On Pain Ends" Apr 21, 2022

After watching her husband alienate his family and slowly die from alcohol and pain pills, Hope Aldred can now breathe again. It took years. It took lots of work - not on him, no on her two boys, but on herself. Hope now works in the treatment and recovery field, sharing her story of resilience with families around the country. Hope wants families to know that they can feel joy again - whether the alcoholic/addict recovers or not.

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The Homicide Cop Asked Rebecca: "Can you describe your husband?" Apr 14, 2022

Addiction is about genes + culture + exposure + trauma. Far too often that trauma is straight up violence. My friend Rebecca walks us through her life growing up with a violent father, running away to a hippie commune, marrying her drug dealer and finally staying clean and sober after her husband’s brutal murder. A story of healing and resilience and help coming from God, the Universe and an unlikely voicemail.

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Keshia's Alopecia: "You are not your hair" Apr 07, 2022

Keshia Sandidge is a public figure (running for NC Senate District 34) who decided to shave her head after struggling for years through many tears with alopecia, a war between the scalp and the hair on that scalp that leads to bald patches. She talks about the painful and expensive struggle to keep her hair with Stuart (who once spent $10,000 on hair transplants.) A grown up conversation with no long discussion of Chris Rock or Will Smith . Oh yeah, we talk about Critical Race Theory too.

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Marsha Stone: For Addicts, Alcoholics, Shame & Isolation Are “Murderers" Mar 31, 2022

As a lawyer, Marsha Stone made headlines wrecking her car with a bunch of wine bottles on the floorboard. She was publicly shamed and disbarred in two states. That’s when she created her own treatment center. In the midst of an epidemic of drug and alcohol related deaths, she says shame and isolation are the real killers.

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Jennifer Busco saw a vision of angels Mar 24, 2022

Jennifer Jonnie Busco was just a girl when she saw a vision of angels floating above her. When she told her mom about the bright white light above her bed, her mom said, “Let’s clip coupons.” Now Jennifer is an energetic healer. One thing is for sure. The bubbly podcast host and yoga teacher is filled with energy!

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Jeanne Hall boarded the plane with MLK when someone said, "BOMB!" Mar 17, 2022

Jeanne Hall grew up in my hometown of Albany, Georgia. She was almost 18 when an “outside agitator” named Martin Luther King, Jr. launched the small southern town into the nation’s headlines with his non-violent protests. Our conversation takes any number of fascinating twists and turns from Ray Charles and “genteel racism” to NYC theater to Stella Adler and Judy Garland and NBC’s Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (also first person experiences) and on to her triumphant book A LEGACY OF LIES. (This episode may be Producer Liz’s favorite of our first 115.) TRIGGER WARNING: CANDID DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL ABUSE.

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Pam Escobar is a Mama Bear - a Mexican American from Philly who's taking her political fight to the South Mar 10, 2022

Pam Escobar is a proud Catholic and Mexican American from Philly who worked at WBTV. Her family believed strongly in good schools. So does she. So she’s running for School Board in Cabarrus County - a suburban system with growing pains. She fights fiercely for her own kids. She wants to fight for yours too, Cabarrus!

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Tara Brown needed faith when her mom was shot Mar 03, 2022

Tara Brown can laugh about it now. The “Godmother of QC Comedy” is a “family friendly” standup comic after all. But when her mom was hit by a stray bullet in NYC, she was not laughing. She was praying. How Tara learned to lean into her faith just when she needed it most.

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Bee's Truth at 17 Feb 24, 2022

There’s that lyric from the Janis Ian song “I learned the truth at 17.” Little bit of angsty teen drama. That is NOT Bee the intern at age 17. She is remarkably dialed in and self assured so we wade right into the heavy stuff - her open adoption, feminist and lesbian views, ADHD, anxiety, a great relationship with ALL FOUR PARENTS (bio + adopted), all that plus Jesus’ personality and learning to speak up for herself. Wisdom way beyond her years. That’s Bee!

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Sammi Jo Francis - Survivor Feb 17, 2022

Sammi Jo has not merely survived trauma. She has thrived. Here’s how.

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Terra Kelly & Romance (for radio, writing and Brian) Feb 10, 2022

Terra Kelly’s teacher told her to forget about being a writer. Three dozen plus books in, she’s proven them wrong

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Madeline finds her identity (It's not Maddy) Feb 03, 2022

Madeline didn’t know who she was. Then the lights came on. The flashing blue lights.

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Why are women better listeners? Jan 27, 2022

Stuart gets interviewed by a class at the historically all-women Hollins University in Virginia. Here’s the deal: BOTH women and men typically acknowledge that women are better listeners than men. The big questions this class addresses: why? And what if anything is changing for the better? Jointly recorded with Emma Thomas (she/her), Keegan Clark (she/her) and Mars Titus (they/them) for their podcast LISTENING FOR LIFE as a part of Professor Heather Toro Derrick’s class LISTENING IN THE MODERN WORLD. Their episodes drop next month. This episode in their podcast will be #5: “Gendered Socialization and Listening.”

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Lily from Jersey, Age 9 Jan 20, 2022

I have three daughters and only one son. So I know girls need to be heard as well as women. And I know I don’t do the best job of listening to my own daughters, now very capable young women all. So I practiced listening to my niece Lily at age 9. I discovered she could hold her own in a conversation of more than an hour. It was really quite remarkable. We talked about her mom’s profession with the NJ state police and her dad’s work as a marine biologist. And we see how Lily came to connect with animals including blue crabs!

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Aunt Lucy Jane Jan 13, 2022

My kids would call some of the things my Aunt says #CRINGE. My 24 year old son would call it a #HotTake to say the least. I just say she’s from a completely different place and time. Specifically, Anniston, Alabama and the first half of the 20th century. So when I ask her about the Freedom Riders bus burning, look out. I’m more interested in understanding her life and times, than I am calling her out. Listening is about hearing hard things.

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Alice at 100 Jan 06, 2022

My friend Kevin asked me to fly with him to Montgomery to record hours of interviews with his 100 year old grandmother, Alice Cumbus. We watched Bama Football together. We went to church (and I did not burst into flames). We talked for hours. Two years later, at age 102, Alice died. Kevin can’t think about that day without tearing up. This interview was the beginning of a whole new adventure for me: VoiceLocket.com Take a look!

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War Bride: Betty McKemie Dec 30, 2021

Betty McKemie didn’t get to see the Statue of Liberty when she sailed into NYC. She’d rushed below to pack. They’d called her name over the ship’s loudspeaker. Her new husband was on shore waiting for her with open arms. They’d move from her native London to a very different place: Albany, Georgia.

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Bunny Hop at the Lunatic Asylum: Helen Brett Schmid Dec 23, 2021

I didn’t meet my birth mother until I was a middle aged man. It took quite a bit of investigative experience to find her. She welcomed me with open arms. She’d hug on me and talk to me endlessly and she’d cook for me. This year she died. I miss you, my mother. Thank God you let me record your voice telling me how you met my father. Crazy story.

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Preserving Mom's Voice: Nell Martin Watson Dec 16, 2021

Stuart’s Mom and Dad died the same day in the same room of the same disease: Alzheimers . That was ten years ago this week. To honor the occasion, we air never-before-heard raw audio of the voice of Nell Martin Watson of Albany, GA She talks about growing up in Georgia during the Great Depression, World War 2 veterans and the adoption of Stuart and his sister Liz. She laughs. It’s sweet. Take a listen! Enjoy.

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Tammy Bell, Honorary Alcoholic Dec 09, 2021

Relapse Prevention Specialist Tammy Bell is retiring this month after almost 40 years of helping thousands of people recover from drug and alcohol addiction. Tammy talks to Stuart about the desperate need for reform in the realm of treatment shortly after the announcement of more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths in a single year in the U.S. Her answers are not simple but they could save many thousands of lives.

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Tammy Bell treats addicts Dec 02, 2021

Tammy Bell has been Stuart’s therapist for 15 years. She has treated thousands of people with substance use disorder, or - to be blunt - recovering drunks and junkies. She specializes in preventing relapses. And she knew some of the original Friends of Bill (Wilson) - co-founder of AA. Now she’s retiring. Stuart promises not to cry.

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Joan is not alone Nov 25, 2021

Joan lives with a couple of cats (indoors) but then there are the neighborhood squirrels and dogs and deer (who have been known to eat out of her hand). The eldest of 13 (THIRTEEN!) was valedictorian of her high school class before heading off to Notre Dame. Listen as two very different people talk about religion and politics without arguing once. There’s a lot to Joan Coggin I never knew! Bout time I just listened.

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"Queen Anne" holds court Nov 18, 2021

Anne Churchwell Stokes never knew her mother. Adopted as an infant she became the heir to a chain of small department stores in Georgia and Florida. Learning the business at her father’s side, she travelled with him to New York, Paris, and Cuba! She also learned a keen sense of civic obligation in a town plagued by poverty, my home town of Albany, GA. The mom to two gay sons speaks directly to evolving views of LGBTQ people in the deep south.

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Nancy birthed her 10 lb. son at age 47 with 0 painkillers Nov 11, 2021

Nancy Jones didn’t want to watch massive social change pass by as a spectator. She joined The Movement. From civil rights to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to The Great Speckled Bird underground newspaper in Atlanta and then on to The Farm - a commune in middle Tennessee - Nancy has seen a lot and she remembers it all. And oh BTW she gave birth to three kids - the last of whom was a whopping ten pounder she delivered in a tent with all natural methods - NOTHING for the pain! YIKES!

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Mimi: Recovery from Opioid Addiction Nov 04, 2021

Mimi broke the law while working at a law office, using clip art to forge prescriptions for opioids.
Once upon a time she stood in line at a methadone clinic while visibly pregnant. Her husband took her to rehab and began crying. “What the f@&! are you crying about?” she demanded, livid at the circumstances she had created.
Nine years later she is a decent wife and mother - and works at a drug treatment center. In the middle of an epidemic of opioid overdoses and deaths, she wants other addicts to know a new life is possible…with help.

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Sarah Frisby on trees and trauma Oct 28, 2021

Sarah Frisby has seen more than her share of trauma…as a girl, as a young woman, and now as a middle aged woman. In times of trouble she turns to nature - mainly to plants. Flowers, vegetables, trees and their amazing healing powers. Sarah and Stuart sit in a park near Asheville and nature speaks for herself. A restorative talk in tough times.

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Jamie just wants the facts Oct 21, 2021

Jamie Weiss just wants the facts. Her birth certificate says she was born in Georgia. She knows that’s not true. So she (and Stuart and many others) are asking the State Assembly to open the records, just like a wave of other states including neighboring Alabama and Tennessee. It’s not going to be easy, but Jamie is hopeful. We talk origin stories - and why it’s important to know where you come from.

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Melinda believes busine$$ and art can coexist Oct 14, 2021

Melinda Benson tells Stuart what it was like to go to college with only women - in the class, teaching it and even all the administrators. From there she tracked down a company founded by a future recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom - because she firmly believed in its mission. On those lines. Melinda talks about living in New Orleans post-Katrina and how Hurricane Ida was the final straw.

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Allison Andrews bears a tattoo of three mountains Oct 07, 2021

They represent three life challenges she has overcome.
1) Infertility
2) Divorce
3) Starting her own company
We get to those. But first - how an Indiana girl went from
a high school across from a pig farm to San Fransisco and
beyond. Hint: it involves David Letterman.

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Beth Troutman's lessons in life and death Sep 30, 2021

Beth Troutman wanted to change the way women appeared in media. So she began working in media - specifically by packing a U-Haul and moving straight from UNC-Chapel Hill to Los Angeles to join the staff of THE WEST WING - the hit NBC TV show. She came home to North Carolina to run for Congress in real life - a losing battle against an old pol later convicted of corruption. We talk about why she still works diligently for peace, justice and a better world.

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Ohavia is a force Sep 23, 2021

Ohavia Phillips is a force. A presence. She shows up big time. Impossible to ignore, she brings love and light with her. Stuart is particularly fragile between funerals and Ohavia steps up to support a new friend she had never met.

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HI FELICIA! Felicia Bittle dresses others to show their best selves Sep 16, 2021

Stuart has hired Felicia Bittle to help him dress in a fun, creative way without coming off as a clown. Client and consultant sit on a park bench in Charlotte’s 4th Ward under umbrellas ️in a drizzle and talk fashion and showing off your best self.

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Tessa teaches two sons Sep 09, 2021

Stuart sits down with his brother Andy’s ex-wife and we do not talk about men. Instead we hear about big moves from Easley, SC near Greenville to Wellsville, NY near Rochester. We also hear about being a single mom to two teenaged boys and a career educator. Tessa Levitt has two masters degrees. She’s taught in the classroom and now she makes classroom learning possible as the Director of Curriculum and Instruction in the Allegheny region of Western New York state.

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Cherene's acts of charity. Sep 02, 2021

Cherene Caraco was about to step in front of a speeding car to end her young life. Then she had an epiphany. Now she draws on her darkest moments to help others see light. The founder and CEO of Promise Resource Network and its new home Respite sits down to talk preventative mental health and a new way forward.

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Mara Palermo ceases fighting Aug 26, 2021

Mara Palermo packs a punch. When her boyfriend’s boss made a crude insult, she gave him a black eye. Now she walks away. How one woman learned to control her emotions after realizing that her emotions had controlled her.

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