Chasing Glass

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Are you fighting your partner, or your past? In Part 2 of my conversation with Terrence Payton ⁠@terrencepayton4060 ⁠ and Trevor M. Payton, we go deep into rejection, blended families, and healing old wounds in marriage. Trevor almost didn't marry Terrence because she didn't feel healed enough....

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. He met her when she was 8 months pregnant. Years later, after he lost his wife and she went through a divorce, one bouquet of flowers brought them back together. This is a story about love after loss, blended families, faith, and learning your self worth. On this episode of Chasing Glass, I sit down with Terrence Payton, host of Jus Relati...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. This is part two of my conversation with Joe Tomco, and it goes even deeper than part one. Joe tells me about the weekend he closed a massive deal with General Electric Latin America before his product was even finished. He was up almost 20 hours a day for four days straight, running the whole thing by hand behind the scenes, because he ha...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Joe Tomco has started six companies, employed over 2,000 people, and built an AI language learning company that reached tens of millions of people in over 180 countries. So you'd think this episode is about tech. It's not. Joe grew up as the sixth of ten kids, followed his siblings toward medicine, and then one business plan competition in...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Some protectors don't wear capes. They wear leather vests and road names. Kuan Yu rides with Bikers Against Child Abuse, an organization built to do one thing: take the fear out of a child's world. In this episode we talk about what it means to show up at 2am for a noise in the dark, what it looks like when 60 bikers roll in to meet a scar...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Teri Drake-Floyd works at Nuçi's Space, a musician's health and resource center in Athens, Georgia built to prevent suicide and keep working musicians alive, healthy, and making music. By night, she writes southern gothic and horror fiction under the pen name Lillah Lawson, pulling from her own family's history to tell stories most people...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. On this episode of Chasing Glass, I sit down with Steph Cave, board president of Athens Pride and Queer Collective, for one of the most honest conversations we've had on the show. Steph opens up about living with lupus, Hashimoto's, and complex PTSD, what it actually took to come out in a rural town fifteen years ago, and their time as a p...

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note. Sharvil Kulkarni built a full photography business in one year, all while being a full time college student. On the outside it looks like a highlight reel. On the inside, it is productivity guilt, imposter syndrome, and a moment on a 3 AM flight that cracked everything open. In this episode of Chasing Glass, we talk about what it actually...

Some losses are publicly mourned. Others get pushed into silence. Why? This week I'm joined by Melyssa Munn, a UGA neuroscience and women's and gender studies researcher who lost both her parents at 15. Now, she studies the brain science of trauma and writes feminist theory on how women are valued, then dismissed. We get into the psychology of grief, why some losses are quietly erased, what disenf...