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...
by lameredith | Aug 3, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
As a young man spiraling out of control with drug addiction, Colleen Elaine’s son clearly had a problem. He wasn’t the only one. Colleen Elaine shares lessons learned after her life unraveled, and the permanent changes made as her son and entire family...
by lameredith | Jul 26, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
It’s been over nine months since I packed my few boxes, stuffed my cats in an airplane, and flew from Alaska to Tennessee to a home where I knew no one, leaving the place where I’d spent more than 5 decades of my life....