The Truth So Help Me Good

Hello Co-journeyers! My special guest Paige Gordon , recently profiled in the  Wall Street Journal , is a writer, advocate, and women’s commissioner whose work lives at the intersection of writing and systemic disruption. Drawing on her lived experience with bulimia, her passion is championing large-scale, biologically informed studies that reframe eating disorders as neurobiological conditions ra...

Kara Kavensky is a corporate communications expert, public relations strategist, author, and podcaster. She has decades of marketing and sales experience in executive leadership and she has been a professional writer for over 25 + years. Her specialty is a strong passion for honest, powerful, effective storytelling catalyzing meaningful, positive change. She has written thousands of personal inter...

Edward McDonald headed the Justice Department’s largest and most successful Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn throughout the 1980s. He was responsible for the convictions of the leaders of four of the five Mafia families in New York, over sixty La Cosa Nostra capos and soldiers, more than seventy corrupt labor union officials, and countless others associated with the LCN. He also successful...

Hello Co-journeyers! Welcome to The Truth So Help Me Good Mini POD!! MiniPODs are short episodes that share ideas, spark curiosity, and inspire reflection as we continue exploring this journey we call life—together! Thank you for listening! Executive Producer: Jake Landry * The discussion of awareness, expression, and connection is informed by my training in Grief Yoga and the work of Paul Dennist...

My special guest, Tim Smith, never set out to become a writer, but he carried a story that refused to stay buried. His memoir, Fault Line - Still Standing, follows Tim’s long, uneven path toward healing, identity, and personal truth. With a voice that is direct, reflective, and at times unexpectedly humorous, he explores resilience and what it means to build a life after survival—and the quiet rea...

Hello Co-journeyers! Please join me with the second edition of The Truth So Help Me Good Mini POD!! Mini PODs are short episodes that share ideas, spark curiosity, and inspire reflection as we continue exploring this journey we call life—together! Thank you for listening! Executive Producer Jake Landry.

Ana Hebra Flaster was nearly six when her family fled Cuba and settled in Nashua, New Hampshire. After graduating from Smith College and enjoying a career in software consulting, she began her writing career. Her writing about Cuba and Cuban Americans has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and elsewhere. Her commentaries and storytell...

Lena Fein is an author, retired engineer, and philanthropist based in San Francisco. A graduate of Engineering at UC Berkeley, Lena spent decades as Vice President of Sales and Marketing at a successful high tech company. When Lena was fifty-one, her mother died which propelled Lena on a path of healing from childhood abuse and trauma. Her debut memoir, Shattering the Mirror, explores her transfor...

Hello Co-journeyers! Nancy Shear, author of I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms, was only fifteen when she began sneaking into Philadelphia Orchestra concerts through the stage door, and seventeen when she was hired as a member of the orchestra’s library staff to help prepare the music; one year later, she became Leopold Stokowski’s musical assistant. Being young and female, she was a pioneer in both pos...

Hello Co-journeyers! Join me and my special guest, Mario Cartaya, author of Journey Back Into the Vault: In Search of My Faded Cuban Childhood Footprints, to hear the amazing story of his return to Cuba after 56 years to rediscover his childhood memories reconnect with unknown family members, and find inner peace through reconciliation with his past. Executive Producer: Jake Landry

Hello Co-journeyers! Join me for my discussion with Dr. Craig Yorke as we explore the meaning of success and failure, and how they both shape our life journey.

Hello Co-journeyers! Welcome to Season 3 of The Truth So Help Me Good! As we enter this New Year, and for reasons that require no explanation, it is incumbent upon us to take our exploration of the bigger questions about this journey we call life to a new level. Why? Because our hearts and minds demand it. As human beings, our longing for meaning and purpose are at the core of our very existence....

My special guest is author Wendy B. Correa.  Wendy is a writer, hiker, as well as a licensed massage therapist she has worked in the film, television, multimedia, and music industries in Los Angeles and as a radio DJ in Aspen Colorado. Wendy holds bachelors degrees in psychology and theater arts and his contributed articles to Mothering magazine. She is a wife and mother and resides in Denver Colo...

My special guest, Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor is a board-certified neurologist with over 30 years of experience in general neurology. In her poignant memoir Whispers of the Mind, Dr. Taylor shares a series of essays that trace her path from medical school to private practice, revealing moments of triumph, heartbreak, grief, and healing. Each story offers a window into the complex interplay between t...

Amy Weinland Daughters is an author, key note speaker and humorist. In her book, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened , she gives us her memoir “wrapped in a tortilla of time travel.” In this brilliant and novel approach to memoir, Amy takes us on a journey filled with humor, nostalgia, and memories that reveal life’s challenges, and provides hope for forgiveness and healing....

Hello Co-journeyers! Please join me and my special guest, Tony Stewart, as we discuss his new book, Carrying the Tiger. In his memoir Tony takes us on his late wife, Lynn Kotula’s, cancer journey. He shares with us what it looks like to die with grace, takes us deep into the darkness of grief to discover how it can lead us back to the experience of joy. Executive Producer: Jake Landry

Hello Co-journeyers! Please join me for this special episode where we have changed things up a bit!! Tim Shea, my personal co-journeyer of 25 years, and Special Guest Host, thought it might be fun to interview me to talk about some of the lessons I have learned on my journey! Thank you for listening! Executive Producer: Jake Landry

In her debut memoir Reaching for Beautiful, she shares her heart wrenching journey through the loss of her twenty-one-year-old son Christopher with courageous vulnerability. She takes us deep into the pain of grief, and in so doing, teaches us how love triumphs over pain, how love transcends fear, and how love never dies. Reaching for Beautiful is a must read for any parent who has lost a child, i...

My special guest Rita Lussier is an award-winning journalist and writer whose column “For the Moment” was a popular feature of The Providence Journal for a dozen years. Her writing has also been featured on National Public Radio, in The Boston Globe, The New York Daily News, and many more. In this episode she speaks to us about her new memoir And Now, Back to Me, Stories from an Empty Nest, where...

Cynthia Moore is an award-winning playwright and performer who wrote and directed theater in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty years. A founding member of Otrabanda Company, she worked with the Blake Street Hawkeyes before leaving the theatre to earn a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She has worked as a mental health counselor for twenty-three years, with a particular focus on the...

Hello Co-journeyers! I am excited to share my interview with author Virginia Deluca, talking about her recent memoir, If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets. As a psychotherapist, she dedicated her life to helping her clients navigate unforeseen challenges and painful losses. When her sixty-year-old husband leaves saying he wanted babies, she struggles to deal with her loss and the life she’d once en...

Rebecca (Becky) Faye Smith Galli is an author and columnist who writes about love, loss, and healing. Surviving significant losses has fostered an unexpected but prolific writing career. In 2000, The Baltimore Sun published her first column about playing soccer with her son – from the wheelchair that launched her From Where I Sit newspaper column. Her books, Rethinking Possible – a Memoir of Resil...

Sandra grew up in Barrington, Illinois. She and her husband settled in Singapore, then Australia — where their twins, Kyle and Alexis, were born. After moving back to the United States, Sandra took up the love of writing. A philosophy of curiosity and a promise led her to write her first Memoir, The Housekeeper’s Secret - a personal story to fulfill her family’s dying housekeeper’s wish. Executive...

Hello Co-journeyers! If you are wondering how to be a force for good in this crazy world, please have a listen to my interview with Karen Olson, author of Meant for More. Karen provides us with a blueprint for how to cultivate our innate empathy, compassion and kindness through our own challenging experiences. Karen is the founder and CEO emeritus of Family Promise and has dedicated her life to tr...

Gail Lukasik is the author of the best-selling book White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing, which The Washington Post named “One of the most inspiring stories of 2017." She is also the author of five mystery novels. Her latest was a gothic historical mystery The Darkness Surrounds Us. Gail has appeared on PBS’s Genealogy Roadshow, BBC World News, and NBC’s TheToday Show. She...