Kitchen Table Sauce

Pull up a chair — loneliness is on the table. In this episode, I sit down with Edila Smith for a conversation about connection, community, and what the hell has happened to friendship. We get into the “friendship recession,” the loneliness epidemic, and how we’ve optimized, therapized, and protected ourselves all the way out of the very thing we actually need: each other. Edila breaks down why lon...

Pull up a chair — the mother wound is on the table. In this episode, I sit down with Danik Bernier (EMDR therapist + trauma-informed parenting coach) for a conversation that goes way beyond “healing” and into what it actually takes to feel safe inside your own body. We get into inner mothering — the kind that rebuilds your nervous system from the ground up, that changes how you move through your l...

The future is on the table, kiddos.  I sit down with Chelsea Riffe for a conversation that feels like two forward-thinkers comparing bruises — the bruises you get from living in a world that’s shapeshifting faster than most people are willing to admit. We talk about collective whiplash. The dissonance of being “ahead” (and not always in a fun visionary way — more like… you can’t unsee what y ou ca...

Pull up a chair — the your family system is on the table. In this episode of Kitchen Table Sauce , I sit down with Paloma Vieira for a deep, intimate conversation about Systemic Constellation and how she uses it to reveal the invisible dynamics quietly shaping our lives, relationships, and sense of self. We talk about what happens when you stop trying to fix yourself and instead start looking at t...

In this second episode of Kitchen Table Sauce , I'm joined by Madison Gregoris to talk about friendship as a lineage of witnessing. We share everything we've learned in our 20-year friendship: the kind of friendship that spans decades, mothers, grandmothers, and continents. The kind that doesn’t just survive collapse but transforms through it. This is a story about the long game of love...

In this first episode of Kitchen Table Sauce, I invite you into the place that taught me how to hold contradiction: my Nana’s kitchen table. It’s where rage and tenderness, jealousy and love, laughter and grief all got to coexist. The place I first learned that staying with the mess — not rushing to fix or simplify it — is how we actually grow sturdy enough to hold real connection and conviction....