A Daughter's Inheritance
A podcast that explores the complex, sometimes beautiful, sometimes painful relationships of mothers and daughters. Each episode host, Susan Seal, sits down with a daughter(s) whose mother has passed, and they explore the story of her mother as well as the complexities of their relationship and what it means to carry forward the inheritance that was passed down.
The podcast launched with 3 episodes the week of Mother's Day 2026. New episodes drop on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.
A Daughter's Inheritance
Latest Episodes
I Write Because She Couldn't
Donna Ladd was in the third grade when her mother sat her down and said the words she'd never forget: "I can't read or write. I'm gonna need you to help me do my business." In this episode, award-winning journalist and Mississippi F...
Two to Tango: Lorene “Allie” Wright Clevinger
In this episode of A Daughter's Inheritance, host Susan Seal talks with Dr. Donna Clevinger, professor and senior faculty fellow in Mississippi State's Shackouls Honors College, about the mother who shaped her life on and off the stage...
Mrs. Katherine, The Beauty Shop Counselor
This week on A Daughter's Inheritance, I'm joined by my colleague and friend Gail Miller, who works alongside me at the College of Professional and Continuing Studies. Gail shares the story of her mother, Mary Catherine Williams, known...
Playing the Hand You're Dealt
In this episode of A Daughter's Inheritance, Susan sits down with Kate Salter Gregory, Associate Professor and Director of the Mississippi Political Collections at Mississippi State University Libraries who has learned to make th...
Discovering Joy, A Restless Pioneer
She was impatient, restless, and by her own daughter's admission, a bit of a hot mess. But Joy Griner was also a pioneer, a woman who grew up in the hills of West Virginia in the 1930s and spent a lifetime pushing back against what the world to...