Thriving Survivor
Episodes
20 episodes
Chelsey
Chelsey shares her story of suddenly learning she has leukemia. She's currently in remission, but her path to thriving has been a long and difficult one.
Jodi
Jodi tells the stories of two tragedies and how they profoundly affected her worldview, and how they ultimately led her to see helping as healing. Hope Loves Company's website is here: https://www.hopelovescompany.org<...
Robyn
Robyn shares the story of how she was attacked and sexually assaulted while out running, and how she turned that trauma into a life-long passion for helping women stay safer in all areas of their lives.Robyn's online safety course for w...
KC Part 2
In our second conversation with KC, she discusses the toxic relationship she had while in the US Army—including how she was beaten, sexually assaulted and stalked. Now—25 years later—KC's assailant is still cyber stalking and harassing her, but...
KC
In this first of two episodes with KC, we hear the story of the murder of KC's mother. KC was just five years old at the time, and in her mother's apartment where the murder occurred. In KC's second episode, we discuss the sexual assault and st...
Dan
Dan Schaefer is the author of The Gay Jungle: A Beginner's Guide to Navigating Life as a Gay Guy. Dan shares his story of overcoming bullying and family difficulties as part of his journey to his currently fully actualized and happy self. <...
Tara
In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, we speak with Kelly's cousin Tara. We discuss her story of finding out about her infertility issues, the incredible struggles she and her husband Ethan went through to become pregnant, and the wa...
Lori Poland
Lori Poland is the Executive Director of The National Foundation to End Child Abuse and Neglect (EndCAN). EndCAN raises awareness of the health, mental health and public health impacts of abuse, as well as focusing on funding research; investin...
Jen Satterly
In this season 2 premiere episode, we talk with Jen Satterly. You might recognize Jen from season 1 where we spoke with her and her husband, Tom, about the effects of military PTS (Post Traumatic Stress). In this episode, Jen giv...
Kelly
In this season finale episode, our co-host Kelly is on the other side of the mic, telling our listeners about her lifelong battle with depression, including her experiences with postpartum depression after the births of her two children. Kelly ...
Kerri
Kerri is a thriving survivor of grief due to the loss of her husband Kevin in 2017. Kevin was a 34-year-old boilermaker who died during a tragic workplace incident. Kerri is the mother of two young sons, as well as a nurse at a children's hospi...
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Julie
Julie is a thriving survivor of various childhood traumas, including highly inappropriate sexual behavior from an older brother, and the stress of living with an older sister afflicted with schizophrenia. Julie credits a close group of friends,...
Tom & Jen Satterly
For 20 years Tom was a member of Delta Force, America’s most elite fighting unit. He and his wife Jen discuss the Post Traumatic Stress he suffered from his experiences fighting desperately for his life, rescuing hostages, killing and capturing...
Leanne
Leanne is a thriving survivor of miscarriage and stillbirth. In 2015, she gave birth to her and her husband’s first child. Leanne went into labor 23 weeks early. Unfortunately, her baby did not survive. Learn about where Leanne is in her healin...
Paul
This episode is centered on domestic violence. Paul is an ongoing survivor of grief due to the loss of his 21-year old daughter, Karissa, who, in 2012, was violently murdered at the hands of her then on-and-off-again boyfriend. Join us a and Pa...
Anita
According to BreastCancer.org, invasive breast cancer will affect about 1 in 8 women in the US, and over 42,000 women are expected to die of breast cancer in 2020. Only lung cancer has a higher death rate t...
Paul & Jessica
Each day, people of color experience acts of racism on institutional, corporate, and individual levels. In this podcast episode, we sit down with doctors Paul and Jessica Spradley, a married black couple who have made it their life’s work to re...
Sara
In 2017, 2.1 million people in America had an opioid problem and a staggering 11.4 million people had misused opioids in the previous year. But once you are using such a highly addictive substance, can you ever find yourself again? On this epis...
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