Diana Merrifield: Healing The Motherless Child
I met Diana at a retreat for adult adoptees who never really worked on healing the inner wound created by losing your mother at birth. That was almost five years ago. WOW! Have we both come a long way. This is wisdom born of pain. Hint: No shame and no blame.
Kenya Templeton’s Gorgeous Voice
I met Kenya in 2016 when we were in a play together at Spirit Square and a presidential candidate who shall not be named was campaigning in the next theater . Secret Service. Security. Crazy times. Kenya Templeton has a GORGEOUS singing voice. A clip from this podcast was featured on WBUR’s HERE …
Dr. Octavia Cannon’s Thousands Of Babies
Dr. Octavia Cannon is kind. She’s been personally kind to me. And she’s kind to the women she treats. Unfailingly kind. Just listen.
Mary Hopper Didn’t Leave The GOP; It Abandoned Her
More than 50 years ago, Mary Hopper needed a safe abortion. She found it in Mexico. She was a Republican… until the Equal Rights Amendment and the Reagan Right ignored women like her. She never went back. Could the US Supreme Court beholden to you-know-who sink GOP? A Reprise of our conversat…
Wendy Hickey: “Art Mama” on ArtPop
Wendy Hickey relishes her nickname as “Art Mama” by lots of artists who have benefited from Wendy’s tireless support for local art! But you might not know how Wendy was a bit of a teen rebel who left home at 16. Relax! It all turns out well. Wendy combined her years of experience in billboard …
How Kim Alexander Found Purpose and Fell In Love With Life
Kim Alexander grew up in New Orleans, assaulted by her own father and grandfather. She turned her own life around after Hurricane Katrina and now works with boys and young men to show them a more hopeful future. Now Kim runs Our Daily Bread Foundation teaching young men to bake bread as an alte…
Jennifer Szakaly (Sock-Eye): “What are we going to do about Mom?”
Dealing with an aging parent can be stressful and heartbreaking in the best of times. Add dementia and money problems or a health crisis and it strains families to the breaking point. Jennifer Szakaly (pronounced Sock-Eye) has decades of experience both personal and professional in precisely this …
Darcy: When a White Christian Joins a Black Church
Darcy is a White woman born in Canada with an atheist father. Then as an adult in the American South, she was invited to attend a Black Church.
Laura Vinroot Poole on Women and Fashion
Laura Vinroot Poole has survived breast cancer and recently lost her mother. We talk about her wonderful Mom who just passed, her love for her native North Carolina, her Dad’s races for Governor, her black designer wedding gown she got for $75 at a thrift store in San Francisco, the NC Republican…
Julia Greenfield Goes To The Statehouse
Julia Greenfield hadn’t thought about running for political office… until 2016. Now she’s going to the Statehouse in Raleigh. Her goal: make Roe v. Wade the law of the land.