Episodes

  • Marriage and Difference: Navigating Core Challenges

    Marriage and Difference: Navigating Core Challenges
    Dec 9 2024
    Eleanor Vincent is an author whose latest book is called Disconnected: Portrait of a Neurodiverse Marriage. In this memoir, she recounts her experience of courtship and marriage to a man on the autism spectrum and paints a picture of what it was like to build up hope, fall in love late in life, and fight to connect with her husband when their brains were wired in fundamentally different ways. Kari and Eleanor talk about relationship dynamics that start in childhood, romantic love, and grief. Connect with Kari O'Driscoll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • One Writer's Relationship to Writing with Aggeliki Pelekedis

    One Writer's Relationship to Writing with Aggeliki Pelekedis
    Oct 10 2024
    Kari and Aggeliki talk about writing, how it relates to life, and Aggeliki's new novel, Unlucky Mel. Exploring themes of caregiving, workplace politics, and humor, the book is tremendously entertaining and relatable. Aggeliki's work can be found here- LinkTree Preorder Unlucky Mel here www.cornellpress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr
  • The Challenges of The Sandwich Generation: Taking Care of Kids and Elders at the Same Time

    The Challenges of The Sandwich Generation: Taking Care of Kids and Elders at the Same Time
    Sep 6 2024
    In this episode, Kari and Nina McCollum talk about what it's like to be a caregiver to kids and parents simultaneously. In the last couple of decades, the emergence of the so-called Sandwich Generation has put an enormous strain on families (mostly women) to navigate the pressures of raising kids and caring for elders within systems that weren't designed to support them. Nina's website: www.NinaWriteNow.com Link to the private Facebook Group for The Sandwich Generation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Kari and Author Garrett Bucks on Being 'The Right Kind of White'

    Kari and Author Garrett Bucks on Being 'The Right Kind of White'
    Jul 5 2024
    Garrett Bucks is a writer and organizer dedicated to creating spaces where White folks can have conversations about what it means to really create communities where we all thrive and talk honestly about racism and the way it affects us. Come listen as he explains why the movie ET is a perfect metaphor for how he thinks about whiteness. Garrett Bucks' website https://www.garrettbucks.com/ Kari's memoir about growing up with a Filipino brother and a Vietnamese sister https://www.cavankerrypress.org/product/truth-has-a-different-shape/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Grounding our Activism in Love

    Grounding our Activism in Love
    Jun 12 2024
    Dr. Paul Zeitz, a physician, activist, and author, joins Kari to talk about his new book, Revolutionary Optimism. They explore ideas of overwhelm and grief and share tips for how to stay focused on love in challenging times, and use that love to fuel our activism. Dr. Paul Zeitz website: https://drpaulzeitz.org/ Sign up sheet for the next Grief and Rage Workshop that begins June 24: Sign up here Kari's website: www.kariodriscollwriter.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 mins
  • Kari Talks with Abolitionist Jason Sole about Our Relationship to Justice

    Kari Talks with Abolitionist Jason Sole about Our Relationship to Justice
    May 3 2024
    Join Kari and Jason Sole to talk about what it means to be in community with each other in ways that heal and repair rifts, and why abolition is a key part of this. Jason's experiences as a Black man in the United States, holding healing circles, and his lived experience with violence and incarceration give him a strong perspective on what it means to find "justice," and where we can't find it. This timely conversation can help us frame the police response to student encampments at colleges and universities all over the US and the world right now. www.kariodriscollwriter.com Jason Marque Sole on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-marque-sole-68340114/ Humanize My Hoodie: https://www.humanizemyhoodie.com/ A Case for Love documentary: https://www.fathomevents.com/news/documentary-inspired-by-presiding-bishops-teachings-on-love-due-for-nationwide-theatrical-premiere-jan-23/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Judy Hall talks with Kari About Relationship to Food and her Body Post-Cancer

    Judy Hall talks with Kari About Relationship to Food and her Body Post-Cancer
    Apr 12 2024
    Kari talks with Judy Ryan Hall about how her tongue cancer and the subsequent treatment radically changed her relationship to her body and to food. The treatment not only resulted in serious complications that kept her hospitalized for an extended period of time, but it left her unable to taste most food. As someone who has always loved food and being in a human body, the last few years have been a practice of reinventing these connections. Meet the host Kari O'Driscoll Books by Kari O'Driscoll Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Relationship to Parenting with Rachael Steidl

    Relationship to Parenting with Rachael Steidl
    Mar 14 2024
    Kari and Rachael talk about how they came to their parenting philosophies, examine the complexities of parenting, and look at how their ideas changed over time. Exploring ideas of discipline and attachment and how we often parent as a reaction to the way we were parented, this conversation is full of insight and laughter. youthwell website: https://youthwell.org/ Happy, Healthy Teens book: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475863796/Happy-Healthy-Teens-Why-Focusing-on-Relationships-Works Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 13 mins