The soulnotskin Podcast with Jen SluMac
A podcast about the stories that shape us, connect us, and help us live with more honesty, compassion, and purpose.
The soulnotskin Podcast shares honest human stories that help us see ourselves in each other. Through reflective conversations about childhood, identity, family, adversity, recovery, reinvention, and service, guests explore what shaped them, how they learned to cope, what those patterns protected or cost, and what helped them choose what came next.
Listeners leave with greater recognition, compassion, and—when appropriate—a practical next step to explore.
Real Stories. Real People. Real Insight. Becoming Who We Are.
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The soulnotskin Podcast with Jen SluMac
Latest Episodes
The People We Fear May Be the Ones We Need
A red Winnebago, a box of ashes, and a woman who can’t outrun her guilt. That’s the emotional launch point for my conversation with author Leanne Walling, who published her debut novel *Salt and Light Express* at 69 and proves, in real time, th...
You Cannot Earn Belonging By Giving Yourself Away
A life can look successful on paper while you are quietly starving for belonging. I sit down with Sunaina Mehta, founder of Design Your Next and former VP Global Head of Insights at HP, to unpack what happens when a high achieving woma...
Jail to College: Why Willpower Isn’t the Missing Piece
You can’t “willpower” your way through reentry when the barriers are baked into vision care, literacy, trauma, and the way institutions respond to a record. I’m joined by Denise Richardson and Mildred McKinney, the founders of OpenGate Inc., an...
Survivor’s Guilt After Leaving Prison - Chris Miner
You can believe in accountability and still question the way we punish. That tension is exactly where this conversation lives, and it gets real fast. I’m joined by Chris Miner, a mitigation specialist at the Champaign County Public Defender’s O...
Not In My Backyard, Until It’s My Nephew - Pr. Carlton
Eighty-five percent. That’s the success rate Pastor Carlton cites for a restorative justice model that helps people leave prison and stay out and it forces a bigger question: why do we accept cycles of reoffending as “normal” when support and a...
