Podcast Notes
Persistence U with Lizbeth Podcast
Podcast episodes are posted Wednesdays and include stories by and for survivors and strivers, all threaded together with a dose of persistence.
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Episode 5: Author Margot Starbuck Shares The Benefits of Community When Learning to Date (Again)
After nearly two decades of marriage, author and editor Margot Starbuck became an accidental dater in her forties when her husband left. Year s passed. The divorce final, her heart healed, she eventually stuck her toe into the world of online dating, and then went all...
Episode 4 of Persistence U Podcast with Lizbeth/Sh*t to Remember When You Lose Your Job/ A Layoff Transforms Ethan Nkana’s Vision for Success and Inspires a Photobook
When attorney and healthcare systems strategist Ethan Nkana relocated cross country with his partner for a long-awaited career opportunity, he never...
Episode 3 of Persistence U Podcast with Lizbeth/The Best Things Sometimes Come From the Worst/My Journey From Domestic Abuse and Child Kidnapping to Becoming the Host of Persistence U
Recorded on the 31st anniversary of my leaving an abusive marriage, the journey out of poverty and domestic violence required some heavy -lifting as well as finding the right kind of information and support. Four years after that, my daughter's kidnapping out...
Episode 2: This Mother’s Journey to Help her Son with Sensory Processing Disorder Turned Into a Best-selling Book and Led her to Write a Subsequent Novel of a Story She Felt Born to Tell/Author Rebecca Duvall Scott
Episode #2.Published March3 ,2021 When parent and former autism behavioral intervention specialist, Rebecca Duvall Scott, unlocked the key to her son’s sensory processing disorder (SPD), she wrote a book sharing strategies and experiences that would change the lives...
Persistence U with Lizbeth, episode 1 with Marti Guzman
Woot! Welcome to a blog changing to a podcast. It's my first week this week as a podcaster. Eventually, the show notes will have it's own place, but for now, here we go. Weds, March 3, the episode will be downloadable. Persistence U with Lizbeth. It was my pleasure to...
New Ways to Connect in the Near Future
Hello, friend. I'm ready for warmer days and less isolation. How about you? This may be one of my last words-only posts. I’ve been blogging for nearly 10 years in addition to writing and making a living. And sometimes it feels as though I’m writing only for myself....
Greenlighting That First Dream/What a Difference a Near-Decade Makes
Hi! This moment of nostalgia is brought to you today by contentment. 🙂 Today is nine years and change since I wrote this originally, which was nearly my first blog post. Now, of course, we're in a worldwide pandemic and few of us are traveling much. When I read the...
Goodbye to 2020, the Year of the Book (and the podcast and TV shows)
... and please, Hello again to movies in the theaters! I wish you a Happy New Year, and hope that you're feeling cautiously hopeful about 2021 like I am. I definitely have a renewed appreciation for our essential workers like doctors and teachers and law enforcement. ...
If I’m Being Honest about this Christmas…
Welcome to the end of 2020. How are you feeling about it? If I'm being honest, I'm over the moon to see 2020 end. But this year's Christmas overwhelms me much less. Normally, my head is spinning for the holidays. Worried about getting out cards. Attending loathsome...
Four Things That’ve Helped Me Turn Goals into Plans
Do you ever catch yourself squashing your goals mentally before you’ve formally stated them? I’ve been writing the last section of my book Crisis, Interrupted: The Smart Woman’s Guide to Creating Calm, Community, and Connection. In it, I recall how sad and betrayed I...
The Four Healthy E’s to Embrace through this Next Wave of COVID-19
I’ve officially joined those of you who feel stuck in your home. COVID gave the dream of retiring a whole new look this month when I realized we may be in for a much longer struggle than I’d imagined. How are you whittling the extra time away? Here are a few...
Author Interview with John Pharr of TIFFANY
I was wonderfully surprised when a quick visit to revise my will turned into a lively conversation about my attorney's foray into the writing life. John Pharr showed my his two beautiful books, but one in particular held my attention due to current events in Alaska....
The Real Reason Why I Won’t Talk to Your Abused Friend (or Your Friends Whose Kids Have Been Kidnapped)
You might think that someone who’s been a domestic violence victim-turned advocate- that person who later wrote about it, might just be the right one to put on speed-dial when someone you know is being abused. Not so. I’ve received more emails and Facebook messages...
Three Lessons Learned from a Teenager During My Mental Health 60-minute Makeover—At the Cemetery
If you’ve been with me a minute, you know I’m on a journey to pivot my work after retiring in October of 2020. But we’re in a pandemic. Every person around, every plan, every continency plan is subject to change. Which is all to be expected, right? But...
What I Won’t Miss about Nearly Three Decades of Working in Trauma and Violence, and What I Definitely Will
Congratulations on powering through six months of COVID-19 already! Thank you for those who showed up on Facebook Live on my birthday. I can’t tell you how nervous I get when I’m live on camera, or how much fun it is to forgot about my anxiety when we do connect....
Author Interview with Margot Starbuck of A Grown Woman’s Guide to Online Dating
I'm excited to introduce you to my dear friend Margot Starbuck this week. Margot's book is days from launching, and I can't wait for my copy to arrive. Enjoy! When did you know you wanted to write this book? Tell us about how it went from idea to big publisher. I was...
In Less than 100 Days/The Renaissance Promise
What do you do when your carefully laid plans are interrupted by a pandemic?
Author Interview with Gretchen Cherington of POETIC LICENSE
I'm honored to have author Gretchen Cherington as my guest today. Gretchen's memoir, Poetic License, is getting terrific buzz well before publication. In it, she recounts a very private side of her well known father, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, and...
The Beauty of Crisis, The Joy of Persistence
Can you believe it? Half the year is gone. If you're like me, you likely made resolutions and promptly forgot them with the chaos life has dealt. Funnily enough, I reread the post I wrote after the new year and remembered I had intended to detach some from my adult...
As We Listen to Hard Things
"Never miss an opportunity to keep your mouth shut,” a dear friend used to say. I’ve had too little success living that message. But as the world has turned on its ear, and more people of color have come forward to bear testimony to life as a minority in America and...
Finding Moments of Peace
How are things in your world? Wherever you are, and however the world is in your immediate environment, I hope you'll find a glimmer of peace. Mine have come during walks or when appreciating my new office mate (Oliver, right) while teleworking twice a month...
Five Good Ways Not to Let Crisis Rule
There are times when we scrape to find the good. For me, the current pandemic hasn’t always been one. As an introvert who balances the want for time alone with the incessant need to please people around me, there have been built-in gifts. More time to work. To walk....
The Covid Cleanse/What To Do When Clutter Sparks Joy
It’s well over a month into the worldwide hunkering down. How are you filling your time? It’s been a perfect time to pare down the embarrassing quantities of photo albums and old letters of the past forty-plus years that I’ve...
Managing Menopause and Quiet during COVID-19
How are you doing? I learned the hard way how universally panicked we are regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. I was standing in line at the grocery store recently, the standard six feet away or more from the next customer, when I felt a hot flash coming on. Reflexively,...
Author interview with Rebecca Scott Duvall of Sensational Kids, Sensational Families: Hope for Sensory Processing Differences
If it feels like I posted this interview before, it's because I have. It was among the lost work that resulted when my website was updated recently, and now, I'm including some bonus details. Author and mother Rebecca Scott Duvall has launched her book, and it's a...
Author Interview with Lisa Boucher of Raising the Bottom
I met the multi-talented and award-winning author Lisa Boucher of Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture during a book promotional event, and was immediately impressed by her passion to reach the world with an often unpopular message about...
The Habit of Happiness
I’d been meaning to round off my first chapter in Thriving, Decoded by not simply talking about Adverse Childhood Experiences and the things that may have shaped the lens we see the world through, but to take a look at how wonderful things that happened to us...
Five a Day/Training the Mind Toward Gratitude
I’m not certain in which book, blog, or podcast it was that I first learned about the Five a Day plan. Find five very ordinary things in your life that right this very minute you are grateful for. Then say them, either out loud, or in your head. Maybe a good...
Looking Back to Move Forward/Welcome 2020, Marie Forleo-Style
Greetings, and early Happy New Year! I hope your holidays are going well. More than the eve of a new year, today marks the end of an entire decade. To get in sync, I’ve enjoyed three of Marie Forleo’s bite-sized podcasts on this Decade in Review . In part one, she...
Creating Immortality Through Memoir
“Who do you think will play my part?” My dentist, Dr. McBratney, was helping me envision my happily ever after, just days after my children had been kidnapped and taken out of country after I’d arrived for my scheduled check-up. I had just wept a puddle of tears and...