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 | 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 | Jun 28, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Rachel Bruno responded openly when police at the hospital told her that they were there to help her. Her seven week old son had a serious traumatic brain injury, and might not survive the night. What happened next would turn her whole family’s lives upside down,...
by lameredith | Jun 21, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Dr. Susan Landers had it all. A brilliant career in neonatology in the NICU unit, a supportive husband, also a doctor, and three children. It was wonderful, and sometimes, it was far too much. Today, Susan is the author of So Many Babies: My Life Balancing a Busy...
by lameredith | Jun 6, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
“We need to get rid of your mother,” David Crows father told him when he was a young boy. He’d worried David would experience the mental health problems that she did, and insisted David help dispose of her to reduce the likelihood. What happened...