2 LIVES - Stories Of Transformation

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION After years of capture kill missions Kervin Aucoin now employs his military training to help people thrive. He says sharing his story keeps his PTSD at bay. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and website designer....

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION At 15 Meghan Callaghan was left alone with her grandfather for the day. What started out as a seemingly ordinary day became a defining moment in Meghan's life. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and website designe...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Rod Nordland, author of "Waiting For The Monsoon," doesn't plan to die from an incurable brain cancer. He's a survivor — of violence, war, and now disease. "Although it's been terrible, I wouldn't change it back, his partner Leila Segal says. "Even though I was in love with him and I loved him before, I would never have got the relationship I now have with this...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Shawna Beesley, known to most as Adaline, says there's no dopamine hit like saving someone from hell. Today she finds that high performing on stage. She discovered she had to shed her golden child identity and reconcile with her evangelical upbringing to be true to herself and come out to her family. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION We're working hard on season 10 of 2 Lives, which we'll be bringing you just in time to kick off your summer. In the meantime I thought I'd share a bit about 2 Lives origin story. The following is a speech Laurel gave at the Flagstaff Women's Leadership Summit .  I love stories. I love listening to them. I love watching them. I love reading them. And I love maki...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." TW: We mention an assault. Lauren's heart stopped for 24 minutes. It took almost dying to realize she couldn't get through life on her own. 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and website designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessi...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Joshua "The Jedi" Loya lost his eyesight at 15, but that didn't stop him from skydiving, surfing, Ju-Jitsu, and stand up comedy. Joshua says choosing sometimes the scary thing makes him feel authentically himself and helps him to live well with PTSD.  2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valeri...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION It took a life threatening situation to give Kafi Joseph permission to make her own rules about what she needs.  She learned that burnout was a symptom of a deeper worry that she wasn't valuable unless she was driving hard.  Now this West Point grad uses her can-do attitude to take care of herself. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only on...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Morgan O'Kane spent much of his young life searching for meaning and a high. It wasn't until he sacrificed alcohol for the love of his child that he reconnected with his true nature. Through train-hopping, mountaineering, music, fatherhood and two very special dogs, Morgan O'Kane found his way home. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only o...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Content Warning: We mention suicide in this episode. After decades of telling people what she believed they wanted to hear, Helen Sneed shares openly her struggles with mental illness because it provides hope and ultimately saves lives, but it took many agonizing years of therapy, hospitalizations, and finally finding community to get here. 2 Lives "The second b...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Wenche Fredriksen is on a mission to help people accept they are enough after perfectionism took its toll on her. She suffered from years of chronic illness and back pain before a doctor told her she needed to recover from burnout. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the ass...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Yohance Lacour creates luxury hiphop sneakers because they represent both his humble beginnings on Chicago's south side as well as the high fashion person he became, but it took a decade's long prison sentence to learn how to make the shoes and to work toward the greater good. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created...

2 LIVES - STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION Valerie Milburn was getting help for her mental illness but it wasn't until her husband told her she couldn't come home until she found stability that she turned her life around. It was then she began to fight for her recovery and to find the right treatment for her bipolar disorder and PTSD. Today she's been married 40 years and she's close with her children an...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator and website designer. Music from Blue Dot Sessions. Become a 2 Lives patron at https://www.patreon.com/2lives Drop us a note on Facebook , Instagram , or Twitter . You can learn how to su...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation After hating her body for 35 years Adiba Nelson became a burlesque dancer celebrating her curves and scars to show her daughter, who was born with a disability, how to embrace her own body. This episode won 2 Lives a 2023 Signal Award for best indie podcast (silver), as well as runner up for an International Women's Podcast Award. 2 Lives "The second begins the...

2 LIVES - Stories Of Transformation Alex Reegan became a reverend after two decades of feeling disconnected from God and after rejecting his ultra conservative evangelical christian faith. Today he helps other LGBTQIA folks on their spiritual journey. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer....

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation Beth Pizzarello's blindness saved her life in a hurricane when she used her heightened senses to get to safety but she had to figure out a way to help herself before the Americans With Disabilities Act passed and when she didn't qualify for disabilities. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Val...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation Mike Ivy, Deputy Chief Medical Officer at Yale New Haven Health, shares his story of burnout and suicide because its a crisis in the medical community and he wants to help other health workers but he fights taboos of shame around his perceptions of "weakness" and mental illness. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is creat...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation L. Nichols has boundless empathy for their Southern Baptist community but embraces their found family because they helped L. accept who they are. Now having kids of their own, L. shows up for them in a new way. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Chri...

After Jessica Waite's husband died, she was sent a box of his personal belongings that revealed one betrayal after another. But eventually with the help of a death doula Jessica was able to forgive him. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is written and hosted by Laurel Morales, story edited by Camila Kerwin of the Rough Cut Collective. Halle Hewitt helped p...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation Therapist Sarah White broke up with booze and what she calls her 'booze bonds,' friends and family who could only connect through alcohol, after seeing their impacts on her life.  2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Christian Arnder is our illustrator...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation Simon Kent Fung devoted three years of his life to creating a podcast about an aspiring nun, whose life paralleled his own. He also sought out conversion therapy for nearly a decade to become a  Catholic priest. Fung was compelled to understand the truth about what happened to her, and finally face what happened to him. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we r...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation After years of being forced to be a child bride in a cult and keep it a secret, today Tamara belongs to herself, but she still struggles with certain brainwashed beliefs and remains angry with Sufi leaders. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Christia...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation Shamony Gibson died after giving birth from an issue that could have been prevented. Omari Maynard and the rest of her family have made it their mission to prevent more BIPOC women from dying preventable deaths. 2 Lives "The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." 2 Lives is created by Laurel Morales. Valerie Shively is the assistant producer. Chr...

2 Lives - Stories Of Transformation I'd like to think every month is 'Don't Be a Bully Month,' but the social media gods claimed August. Regardless it's a good reminder to listen to one of my favorite 2 Lives episodes featuring Coach Marty who has made it his life's mission to put a stop to bullying. Coach Marty Heilman has made an impact on thousands of kids. He knows all too well what lasting im...