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I Will Watch Anything Once - Conversations about Movies Missed or Avoided
Mark David Christenson and Connie Shin watch and discuss movies that their guests suggest they should see for various reasons. Music by Timm Sharp and Logo designed by James Mulholland
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The Thriving In Chaos Project with Paulette Rigo
Paulette Rigo
Created and Inspired by our courageous journies, love for connecting with others and having meaningful conversations that teach, impact and heal through sharing our stories. In each episode, Paulette is joined by some of the most experienced and compelling experts in ALL Things Divorce and Transformation. Listen to prepare and thrive through the toughest chapters as we reveal our hardships, celebrate our lessons learned and see the future clearly with encouragement, hope and joy. Leave feeli ...
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Ep. 128 Jaimie Sherling: You Do You! Despite all that life throws at you. (Divorce and Cancer included)
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Jaimie Sherling is a joy seeker, drag ambassador, and the founder/designer of YDY, Sweets—a clothing line created for her sister breast cancer survivors. She lives in Wisconsin with her two kids. When she’s not working at her day job or trying on piles of clothes at thrift stores, you can find her screaming YAASSSS surrounded by a bunch of queens. …
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Ep. 127 Dr. Anissa Reilly: The Wounded Healer: Turning Life's Messes into Messages of Hope- From Violence to Victory!
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Dr. Anissa Reilly has been in education for over 30 years. For just under the last 15, she has been the principal of an elementary school in a large urban school district. She received her undergraduate degree from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, her master's degree from Bank Street College of Education, and her doctorate from The S…
Joe Bernstein is a senior reporter for BuzzFeed News. “The question of disinformation is almost an attempt to create a new mythology around why people act the way they do. I don’t mean to say that it’s some kind of nefarious plot. ... It’s a natural, or a convenient explanation. And that’s why I think it caught on for some time anyway.” Show notes:…
Vauhini Vara is a contributing writer at Wired and author of the novel The Immortal King Rao. “With a magazine story, it might be like six months or a year or two, if it's something that took you a long time. With this [novel], it was 13 years for me, but the sort of emotional arc felt similar, where there were these periods of despair and a sense …
Azmat Khan is an investigative reporter for the New York Times Magazine. She won the George Polk Award for uncovering intelligence failures and civilian deaths associated with U.S. air strikes. “I think what was really damning for me is that, when I obtained these 1,300 records, in not one of them was there a single instance in which they describe …
Daniel Chang covers health care for the Miami Herald. Along with Carol Marbin Miller, he won the George Polk Award for "Birth & Betrayal," a series co-published with ProPublica that exposed the consequences of a 1988 law designed to shelter medical providers from lawsuits by funding lifelong care for children severely disabled by birth-related brai…
Sarah Stillman is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the director of the Global Migration Program at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She won the George Polk Award for "The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters." “I’m all about the Venn diagram where the individual meaningful stories of things people are up against inter…
Maria Abi-Habib is the bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for the New York Times. Along with her colleague Frances Robles, Abi-Habib won the George Polk Award for revealing concealed aspects of the murder of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse. “We’re not going to stop covering Haiti just because you don’t like us … at the end o…
Clarissa Ward is the chief international correspondent for CNN. Along with field producer Brent Swails and photojournalists William Bonnett and Scott McWhinnie, Ward won the 2022 George Polk Award for her real-time coverage of the rapid rise of the Taliban as U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan last summer. “I used to come back from war zones and…
Jackie MacMullan is an NBA journalist who has written for The Boston Globe, Sports Illustrated and ESPN. She hosts the podcast Icons Club for The Ringer. “[Athletes] think they don't need journalists—and they're wrong. And I tell them all this. I'm like, ‘I know you think you've got your own production company, but we can tell your story better tha…
“Human beings, we are the same, right? Like when you come out of the womb, you need to eat, you need to sleep, you need to pee, you need to shit, and when it comes to emotional needs, you need to feel loved. You need to feel there's compassion, you know? You need to feel significant and of value. And when it comes to like the feeling of significanc…
Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosopher and journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The Verge, The Believer and many other publications. Her new book is Easy Beauty. ”I literally didn't talk to anyone in my life about disability until I was, like, 30. Ever. Not my husband, not my friends, as little as possible to my own mother. I had this very bad id…
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Ep. 126 Michelle Dempsey: Mom's Moving On!
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Michelle Dempsey-Multack MS, CDS, is a writer, mom, coach, certified divorce specialist (TM) (CDS), speaker, and genuine girl power enthusiast. She graduated from Hofstra University with a degree in journalism and communication and then earned a double masters degree in education from Adelphi University. She hosts the weekly podcast Moms Moving On,…
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Ep. 125 Roy Biancalana: Relationship Bootcamp Post Divorce: Hard-Core Training Life, Love and the Pursuit of Intimacy
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Need to Relationship Fitness Check! Let Roy be your guide. #1 Best Selling Author Certified Relationship Coach Former Relationship Expert for Fox 35 TV/Orlando, Florida Roy's #1 Best Selling Book!: RELATIONSHIP BOOTCAMP: Hard-Core Training for Life, Love & the Pursuit of Intimacy www.coachingwithroy.com Facebook: RoyBiancalana Twitter: @coachingwit…
Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans. ”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on t…
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and many other publications. His new book is A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance. “I learn from hearing my elders tell stories. There’s an inherent knowing of yourself as a vessel for narration who also has t…
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Ep. 124 Tracy Malone: Divorcing Your Narcissist: You CAN'T make this shit up!
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Perhaps you are stuck in the cycle of not being able to get over your difficult divorce from a Narcissist Ex? Meet Tracy Malone! She is a survivor of narcissistic abuse on a new journey just like you. As soon as she learned what the heck all the crazy people in her life were doing she started teaching, sharing and bringing others to understanding. …
Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, and has been reporting from Ukraine for the last several weeks. His most recent article is "What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine." “I’m not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it, though who would lik…
Heather Havrilesky writes the Ask Polly and Ask Molly newsletters. Her latest book is Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage. “It’s not a good story when you're bullshitting people. I didn't want this book to feel like bullshit…. I wanted to show enough that you could feel reassured that it's normal to feel conflicted about your life and the…
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Ep. 123 Donna Shin: There comes a time in your life when you finally get it! Surviving Narcissistic Abuse and Coming Out The Other Side
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Meet Donna Shin: a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and holistic wellness coach specializing in helping women recover from grief, trauma, and loss caused by narcissistic emotional abuse. Join Paulette and Donna for this deep dive into Narcissistic Marriage awareness, survival and recovery. Donna has been there and knows her stuff. She can h…
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Ep. 122 Connie Jones: What IS the difference between Therapy and Coaching and how to know it's time to get one!
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Connie Jones is a heart warrior. A freedom fighter. Master of Breakthrough. Coach. Therapist. Motivational Speaker. Best Selling Author of Warrior Arise! Live Bravely, Freely, and Authentically YOU. She is passionate about helping high achieving entrepreneurs break free from limiting mindsets and habits, so they can live in greater fulfillment and …
Laura Shin is a journalist covering cryptocurrency and hosts the podcast Unchained. Her new book is The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze. “I was extremely well-acquainted with what the failings were with our traditional financial system. I was seeing through my other reporting how everything w…
Tara Westover is the author of Educated. “I used to be so fearful. ... I was afraid of losing my family. Then, after I had lost them, I was afraid that I made the wrong decision. Then I wrote the book and I was afraid that was the wrong decision. Everything made me frightened back then, and I just—I don't have that feeling now.” Show notes: @tarawe…
Matthieu Aikins is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine who has reported on Afghanistan since 2008. His new book is The Naked Don’t Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees. “I think at some point you just say, screw it. I'm gonna act like a human being and help my friend. That's the most important thing. You actu…
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Episode 475: Brian Reed and Hamza Syed
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Brian Reed and Hamza Syed are co-hosts of the new podcast The Trojan Horse Affair. “I had lost all faith in the reporting that already happened on the subject matter. And that was my mentality with each source and each interviewer. I wanted the debate ended in the room because I didn't want commentary beyond it. I didn't want any kind of interpreta…
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Ep. 121 Joanne Johnson Interviews Paulette for a change on How Divorce Doesn't Have To Be Hell.
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A few years ago Joanne and Paulette met in Maui of all places when both of their lives were shifting in 2016. Since then the work they do and the people they serve have clearly solidified. Joanne reached out to Paulette in awe of her transformation and asked if she could interview her. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thriving-in-chao…
Chuck Klosterman is a journalist and the author of eleven books, including his latest, The Nineties. ”Selling out… was very much injected into the way I understood the world…. And I am now supposed to do all of these interviews and all of these podcasts promoting this book. And because it's a book about the nineties… it feels incredibly uncomfortab…
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Ep. 120 Amy Sanders: Toxic Relationship Expert Teaches Us How To Know You Are Happy and Create Your Joy List
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Amy Sanders is a mother of 7 kids, a master-certified mindset and a life coach. For more than two decades she has taught and inspired thousands of women through weight loss, mindset, relationships and business. Amy works with women to uncover their purpose by exposing their strengths and slaying their demons that hold them back in life. This includ…
Khabat Abbas is an independent journalist and video producer from northeastern Syria, and the winner of the 2021 Kurt Schork News Fixer Award. ”I can see from my experience that there is a gap between the editors, who are kind of elites in their luxury offices, and the amazing journalists who are in the field, who all sympathize with what they are …
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Ep. 119 Tierra Womack: When You Know It's Time To Face Your Fears and Succeed In Every Aspect of Your Life.
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Tierra Womack MBA, multiple best-selling author, host of the Mind Your Business Radio Show, speaker & founder of The Brave Way, is a serial, multi-platform mompreneur of 17 years whose businesses have generated over 7-figures. As a Business Growth Specialist, Confidence & Wealth Coach, Tierra helps female surTHRIVErs of narcissistic abuse rediscove…
Michael Schulman is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He recently profiled Jeremy Strong of Succession. ”There's an interesting moment that's part of this job where you’ve spent a lot of time with someone and it often feels very personal and very intimate. And then when you go to write the piece, you have to sort of take a breath and say to yourse…
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Ep. 118 Laura Joseph: When Enduring and Surviving Abuse Becomes Your Superpower
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Since 2006, Laura has been providing spiritually based integrative holistic health enrichment with a subspecialty in trauma healing & recovery through workshops, outreach, retreats, and private sessions. She’s an experienced healer, speaker, writer, seeker, social justice junkie, spiritual mentor, intuitive, Jikiden Reiki Shihan (teacher), medicine…
Sarah Marshall is a writer and hosts the podcast You're Wrong About. ”I love it when people tell me that listening to the way I talk about these people in the stories that we tell, and just about the world generally, has made them practice empathy more. I almost feel like I have preserved this a-little-bit-past version of myself, because I've been …
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EP. 117 Lisa Shippell: Being Approachable and Traveling Through Divorce, From Point A to Point ME!
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Lisa Glauber Shippel is the managing attorney at Lisa Shippel Law, LLC. She has been practicing law in the Alpharetta area since 1994. Her practice concentrates in the areas of real estate; wills trusts and probate; and general business law. Lisa has assisted thousands of clients in real estate closings and the development of North Fulton and the s…
Abe Streep is a journalist and contributing editor for Outside. His new book is Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana. ”The way journalists talk about, ‘Did you get the story?’—that's not how I see this. That would be extractive in this setting, I think. If someone shares something personal with…
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Ep. 116 Amy Schadt: No More Feeling Alone and Inadequate When There Is a Community Waiting Just For YOU.
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Connie Walker is an investigative reporter and podcast host. Her latest show is Stolen: The Search for Jermain. “For so long, there has been this kind of history of journalists coming in and taking stories from Indigenous communities. And that kind of extractive, transactional kind of journalism really causes a lot of harm. And so much of our work …
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Special Episode The Divorce Hour: After Divorce Are You Divorced or Single?
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"The Divorce Hour with Ilyssa Panitz” is a safe and comfortable place for listeners to put their feet up and escape from the daily grind while we offer you comfort and advice during a challenging and often isolating time in your life. It is hard to turn to friends and family who don’t understand what you are going through emotionally, mentally, or …
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Rerun: #371 Parul Seghal (Dec 2019)
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Parul Sehgal, a former a book critic for The New York Times, is now a staff writer at The New Yorker. “My job is I think to be honest with the reader and to keep surfacing new ways for me and for other people to think about books. New vocabularies of pleasure and disgust.” Show notes: parulsehgal.com @parul_sehgal Sehgal's New York Times archive “M…
George Saunders is the author of eleven books. His latest is A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life. ”I really have so much affection for being alive. I really enjoy it. And yet, I’m a little negative minded in a lot of ways too, like I really think things tend to be fucked up. ... To …
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Special Episode The Divorce Hour: What Do I Wear To Court? (and other vital tips about appearing)
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"The Divorce Hour with Ilyssa Panitz” is a safe and comfortable place for listeners to put their feet up and escape from the daily grind while we offer you comfort and advice during a challenging and often isolating time in your life. It is hard to turn to friends and family who don’t understand what you are going through emotionally, mentally, or …
Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm. ”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. ... I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I jus…
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Special Episode: The Divorce Hour: The Horrible Realities of Domestic Violence in Divorce
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“The Divorce Hour with Ilyssa Panitz” is a safe and comfortable place for listeners to put their feet up and escape from the daily grind while we offer you comfort and advice during a challenging and often isolating time in your life. It is hard to turn to friends and family who don’t understand what you are going through emotionally, mentally, or …
Kelefa Sanneh is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book is Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres. “I’m always thinking about how to not be that person at a party who corners you and tells you about their favorite thing and you’re trying to get away. It’s got to feel light and fun. And what that means in practice is writing ab…
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Special Episode The Divorce Hour: Why Hiring a Divorce Coach is a Game Changer
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"The Divorce Hour with Ilyssa Panitz” is a safe and comfortable place for listeners to put their feet up and escape from the daily grind while we offer you comfort and advice during a challenging and often isolating time in your life. It is hard to turn to friends and family who don’t understand what you are going through emotionally, mentally, or …
Anita Hill is a professor and author. Her new book is Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence. "I really do feel that my life now has purpose. And my responsibility really is to live out that purpose as much as possible. The reason that this isn’t entirely daunting is that I realize I am one individual. And that the issues will no…
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Special Episode The Divorce Hour: 8 Steps to a Better Divorce Blueprint
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Episode 465: Ben Austen and Khalil Gibran Muhammad
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Ben Austen is a journalist and the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. Together they host…
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Ep. 115 Leslie Montenile: Divorce Attorney Speaks Out About The Cult Of The Black Card
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Meet Lesley, the Lawyer! She tells it like it is. Raw, honest and radiant, she created a boutique family law practice, authored a book, and shared her personal and professional wisdom with us. Through the lens of a 30-year career in matrimonial law and her decades-long marriage, attorney, and relationship coach, Leslie Montanile offers timely insig…
Casey Johnston is a journalist and editor who writes the column "Ask A Swole Woman," which now appears in her newsletter ”She's a Beast.” ”I feel more comfortable lately with a sort of beloved-local-restaurant level of success. What's nice about Substack is that we've come to this place that I hope lasts where we can have this sort of local restaur…
