by lameredith | Oct 4, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
At 18, Cindy Villanueva was clearly on the fast path to success. Attending UCLA after an illustrious high school journey that included near- perfect grades, Cindy instead got pregnant and became a teen mom and college dropout. But even after three more children and a...
by lameredith | Sep 27, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Sometimes it feels as though life has it in for us. Since publishing my book and more recently, when that book became a movie, I’ve had the pleasure of connecting with so many people around the world, many experiencing crises similar to those I wrote about like...
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...
