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Drop into the middle of raw and honest conversations about love, sex, family, heartbreak, and how we define ourselves in and out of relationships. Therese Barbato hosts this slumber-party style podcast from her bed in Brooklyn, where guests unpack and explore how their personal history and experiences have shaped their unique sense of love.
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novelist amy bloom joins us for our love(d) finale: a deep dive into her memoir “in love” - a beautifully rendered portrait of a mid-life romance and their decision, following her husband’s alzheimer's diagnosis, to go to dignitas - an organization based in switzerland that allows people to end their own lives with dignity and peace.
jen nilsson changed her whole life when her fiance Jeff died of cancer in 2018. she quit her job and set off to see the world, writing and traveling and living as if there might not be a tomorrow. a candid conversation about their 296 day love story and how her life has been transformed since jeff’s death.
montana-based mom of 3 ali mullen shares her story: falling in love with her husband john, his struggle with undiagnosed mental illness, losing him to suicide during the darkest days of the pandemic and how she and her children have found light in the days since john’s death.
actor & writer nadia bowers joins us for a deeply candid and generous episode: her intensely close relationship with her sister sasha, losing her to an opioid overdose 7 years ago, and how she has navigated being in relationship with sasha since her death.
the fabulous leslie gray streeter graces episode 4: finding later in life romance with someone she knew since high school, losing scott suddenly just after they had adopted a new baby and putting the whole experience down in ink in her incredible memoir “black widow.”
melissa gould, author of the best-selling memoir “widowish" sits down for a deeply honest conversation about her experience of love & grief: falling in love with her husband joel, losing him to multiple sclerosis 7 years ago and what the aftermath has been like for her and her daughter.
stephanie bruneau on the loss of her husband, the peace & conflict neuroscientist emile bruneau: their remarkable love story, how emile’s ‘peaceful and radiant optimism’ informed their lives together as he navigated brain cancer, and what their relationship is like now since his death in 2020.
the magnificent dr. lucy hone graces our season 6 premiere: an intimate conversation about the tragic death of her 12 year old daughter, the dance of grief & resilience, and her experience of loving abi in the present tense as time goes on.
coming spring 2022: our 6th season spinoff, love(d)
wild love season finale: dr. lucy kalanithi is a physician, professor, advocate and the widow of dr. paul kalanithi, author of the #1 new york times bestselling memoir when breath becomes air. she takes us through loving and losing paul, their decision to have a child even as he was quite ill, and how marriage continues even after the person you love has died.
phd student shirin estahbanati shares her story: being separated from her iranian family due to the 2017 travel ban, discovering a library incredibly situated on the us/canada border where they could safely meet and how she’s learned that no matter the suffering, it is always worth it to see those you love.
entrepreneur, mental health advocate & new york times best-selling author jen gotch joins the pod to talk love & mental health: getting the right diagnoses, cultivating independence & how a bad marriage can be like novocaine.
psychotherapist, author and die-hard liberal democrat jeanne safer breaks down her 40 year marriage to a staunch conservative republican: her attempts to change him, accepting their differences and the all important "chemotherapy test."
writer and public speaker toby dorr shares her harrowing story: falling in love with prison inmate john maynard and helping him escape, their experience on the run and how her life has been thoroughly transformed by these events.
actor zabryna guevara shares her experience of donating a kidney to her mother: the considerations and fears that went into the decision and the remarkable recovery process for both of them.
writer and photographer caroline catlin joins us for a raw conversation about receiving an incurable cancer diagnoses, her experience photographing critically ill children, and the gratitude and community that guides her. www.carolinecatlin.com
sanni mccandless (life coach and cofounder of outwild) walks us through the experience of seeing herself depicted in the documentary free solo, cultivating mystery in a relationship and loving a partner whose line of work is extraordinarily dangerous.
psychotherapist and new york times bestselling author lori gottlieb joins us for a frank discussion about our relationships to ourselves & others, and how cultivating “wise” compassion can help strengthen both. Her most recent book is maybe you should talk to someone.
actor, advocate and writer tembi locke joins us for a deep dive into cross-cultural romance, living with grief and the healing power of italian cooking as chronicled in her beautiful memoir from scratch.
writer & speaker amber scorah shares her complex journey in and out of the jehovah’s witness, and the relationships in her life that made the transition possible. Her book leaving the witness is a beautiful account of her experience.
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