by lameredith | Sep 20, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Christina Foxwell’s early life in South Africa was with loving and strict parents. Her father was a Penecostal minister. It was during the age of apartheid, and Christina, a fair-skinned person of color, found herself longing to fit in and to be loved. Christina...
by lameredith | Sep 11, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
The bumpy relationship between bestselling author Laura Davis and her mom was well-documented long before her recent memoir The Burning Light Between Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story was published and resulted in a long period of estrangment. Yet where some of us...
by lameredith | Sep 6, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Parenting books and experts have much to say on parenting kids during the early years. Then the information seems to stop. Denise Drinkwalter is a former educator who’s helped scores of parents who are wrestling with issues of communications, expectations, and...
by lameredith | Aug 14, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
You might think that being a twin means you’ll experience the world around you similarly. Not so, says identical twins and authors Joan and Jane, former therapists turned psychiatric entertainers. Perhaps it was their forced separation by medical staff when they...
by lameredith | Aug 9, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
After a diagnosis of arthritis in her spine created neverending pain, Chery Ilov was told to resign herself to the fact she’d need medication for life and wouldn’t be able to dance or become a physical therapist as planned. The pain was just a part of...