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Episode 66: Ed DiGangi Gave Himself The Gift Best Given as He Neared 70 and Found His Biological Mother

Ed Di Gangi wasn’t an adopted person who’d always wondered about his biological family. His childhood had been a good one. That changed as he approached his 70th birthday, when Ed’s curiosity was piqued by a trip to the graveyard. His journey to know his history is documented in his memoir, The Gift Best Given. You will […]

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Minisode: Minisode: The Book-to-Movie Journey, Mistakes Made, and Your Questions Answered, Pt 1

Welcome to this three-part miniseries  about the book-to-movie process. Contrary to what I mentioned in the recording, the next two will be published this week! 🙂 I’ll be sharing some of what I learned when my memoir, Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters became Stolen By Their Father on Lifetime Television, and mistakes I made and nearly […]

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Episode 65: LaTonia Edwards Talks Healing for Sexual Abuse and Military Sexual Assault, and the Signs She Saw in Herself that She’d Healed

For LaTonia Edwards, seeking help to heal from childhood abuse and, later, military sexual assault, wasn’t something she learned from her family growing up. But her journey to find the right services led her to become the vibrant business woman she is today, creating the very support she’d not found back when she was seeking […]

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Episode 64: Stel Coombe-Heath Talks Beating Binge Eating and How Trying Less Can Lead to More

Stel Coombe-Heath sat in her home a few years ago, surrounded by the evidence of fast food and donuts she’d eaten, and realized it was her time to ask for help. She’d long taken her fitness and weight to punishing levels, depriving herself for period of time, followed by bingeing. Then shame. Discomfort. And pushing […]

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Episode 63: How Village Life in Alaska Has Transformed this Ohio Native Educator

Ohio native Jacob Deskins was already an anxious young man when he finally graduated from college and got a job as a teacher. Then the pandemic came, and wiped away his sought-after opportunity. He and his wife faced a difficult choice. Move to Los Angeles, or to the village in Alaska of Kwigillingok, with a […]

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Episode 60.5 The Truth About Happily Ever After and the Journey of Recovery (From Anything!)

Today is so very significant to me. Stolen By Their Father, the Lifetime Television movie based on my book, Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, premiers today. And it’s 32 years to the day after leaving abuse behind, something to celebrate, indeed. You will learn: Happily Ever After is for fairy tales, but my family […]

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Episode 62: Dr. Naeema on When She Learned She Was Raised As a Lie

It wasn’t until new schoolmates threatened to lynch her in her teens that (now) Dr. Naeema’s mother had to tell her the truth: her father was not the man on her birth certificate, and was a Black man. In that moment, whom she believed herself to be was forever changed. You will learn: Family secrets fester […]

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Episode 61: How Kerryn Vaughan Allowed the Loss of Her Younger Sister to Help Others and Create Her World

Kerryn Vaughan was living her best life in her 30’s, playing in a rock band in Australia and enjoying the adulation when her younger sister received a cancer diagnosis. Kerryn felt helpless, watching her sister die, and it took a long while before she was able to pivot. Today, Kerryn’s the host of Get Off the […]

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Episode 60: Indie Author LoLo Paige Finds a Back Door to Her Dream of Being Traditionally Published and Sets the World on Fire With Her Alaska Romance Series

LoLo Paige had already enjoyed a career in fire science and retired from a career in federal government when she decided granted herself permission to pursue her writing. She had a vision of being traditionally published. But the publishing world changed. (Authors, sign up for my Book Marketing on the Skinny waitlist HERE.) You will […]

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Episode 58: The Day Joann Keder Created Space for a Whole New Identity as a Writer

As Joann Keder sat next to her husband’s hospital bed after his cardiac arrest, she knew there was no more time to waste in pursuing her dream as a writer. Many books later into her author journey, Joann has a sense of satisfaction and a supportive community that she’d never imagined. (Freebie alert! Authors, grab my […]

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