Episode 152: Lindsay
The list of major health issues she dealt with in childhood including brain and spine surgeries pale in comparison to the complicated relationship with her father; an alcoholic with no boundaries. Pa...
31 Jan 20142h 8min
Episode 151: Listener Confessions
Culled from a month of surveys filled out by listeners. Paul reads their shames, secrets, fears, hopes and beautiful moments. And of course some "awfulsome" moments as well. See omnystudio.com/liste...
24 Jan 20141h 29min
Episode 150: Ryan Sickler
The standup comedian (Comedy Central, Late Late Show w/Craig Ferguson) and podcaster (The Crabfeast) shares about the hatred he endured from his mother and the love from his father and other relatives...
17 Jan 20142h 7min
Episode 149: Cathy Ladman
The writer (Roseanne) and standup (Tonight Show, Late Late Show w/Craig Ferguson) opens up about the controlling environment she was raised in, her professional anxieties especially about her age (58)...
10 Jan 20141h 54min
Episode 148: Matthew Walden
Although the writer/listener grew up in Hawaii, his childhood was far from paradise; enduring a cornucopia of PTSD, leaving him wondering what is real and what isn't. He also shares his obsession wit...
3 Jan 20142h 6min
Episode 147: Listener Amelia & Postpartum Depression
Amelia discusses her "nuclear" PMS (called PMDD), her first pregnancy and the pressures she felt for everything to be perfect and the crushing Postpartum Depression that followed. She also talks abou...
27 Dec 20131h 51min
Episode 146: Chemda
The podcaster (Keith and the Girl) was raised in NY but born in Israel to a mother of Iraqi heritage and an Iranian father, both of whom had traditional expectations for their daughter, none of which ...
20 Dec 20132h 13min
Episode 145: Dr. David Lisak
Born in Montreal to a WWII widow, the clinical and forensic psychologist talks about the sexual abuse he experienced as a boy, the stigma and confusion adult male survivors grapple with and ultimately...
13 Dec 20132h 6min
