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Fatherhood, a Memoir, sold 200 Copies, Then a Court Order? Sean Coffin Tells His Story | Ep. 20

2026-10-2001:30:57

What happens when writing your own story becomes another battle? Sean Coffin says his memoir, Resenting Joy, sold 200 copies in less than two weeks before a temporary court order stopped him from publishing it. In this episode of The Stand with Meg Show, Sean and his fiancée, Brittany O’Brien, join me for the story behind that moment. Sean, a New York City teacher, coach, and father, recounts the intervention where he says he was accused of dealing drugs, the police response he describes, a...

What About the Kids? Hope, Stories, and Parenting with Julie Lavender Le Doux | EP. 19

2026-10-1854:30

When the world feels heavy, what story is your child telling themselves? On The Stand With Meg Show, I sit down with author, musician, and artist Julie Lavender Le Doux for a conversation about children, books, and the stories we carry about ourselves. Julie introduces The Amazings Series, where a family that sees color lives in a town that sees only gray. We discuss the questions she wants her stories to raise about conformity, independent thinking, and the messages children hear from the ...

No One Is Coming to Save You. How to Write the Affidavit That Gets a Case Opened. | Ep 18

2026-09-3055:09

⚖️ Every fraud indictment Shawn has put on this table started the same way. A victim walked into a law enforcement office and put what happened in writing. Nobody came to save them. They wrote it down. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks real sworn affidavits, the documents that turn a complaint into a case: a Wichita Police detective's probable-cause affidavit in a Sedgwick County, Kansas false-information case (charged, not convicted, trial set for November 2026), a six-page FBI wire-f...

They Called Fake Court Orders a Conspiracy Theory. The DOJ Just Put One in an Indictment. | Ep 17

2026-09-3051:14

⚖️ Families have been saying "fake orders" for years and getting called crazy. This month a United States Attorney's office put those words in a federal indictment. Criminal trial attorney Shawn Lee walks the actual indictment of a Madison County, Illinois guardian ad litem charged with bank fraud and mail fraud: over $400,000 allegedly withdrawn from minors' accounts, and a fake court order allegedly created and mailed to a minor to conceal it. Charged, not convicted. Then the timeline, wit...

Untitled EpisodeShe's a Doctor. Family Court Still Took Her Kids. Custody MD Author Dr. Adwoafuaa Nwokocha | Ep 16

2026-09-2001:15:06

👩‍⚕️ She spent her days saving other families' children. Family court still took hers. I sit down with Dr. Adwoafuaa Nwokocha, Houston family medicine physician, first generation Ghanaian American, mother of five, and author of Custody MD: Fighting for the Woo. In her words: homeless with a newborn and a Northwestern degree, medical school as a single mom, then a custody battle where she describes a full year without her children, three nannies whose courtroom stories contradicted each other...

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