Jacqui Just Chatters

Send us Fan Mail Warning - Adult Language! During my interview with Eve Simon, before it got all serious in our discussion about grief, we were laughing it up with some strange conversation paths. We discussed regional differences because of a chicken suit comment. Swearing around family garnered a salty chat. I decided to take these cutting room floor gems and put them into a bonus episode for yo...

Send us Fan Mail Warning, this episode has adult language and includes the sensitive topic of grief. Gen X expert (because she is one) Eve Simon’s joins me to talk about the 80s, bacon, adventures in college, technology, and the passing of her father in the last year. Eve touched me with her honesty about facing death and the grief that comes after. Our conversation gets very personal about hearta...

Send us Fan Mail Warning, this episode has adult language and includes the sensitive topic of grief. Gen X expert (because she is one) Eve Simon’s joins me to talk about the 80s, bacon, adventures in college, technology, and the passing of her father in the last year. Eve touched me with her honesty about facing death and the grief that comes after. Our conversation gets very personal about hearta...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode I chat with Kent Sanders a professional ghostwriter, and host of the Daily Writer podcast and the founder of the Daily Writer Club, a membership community that helps writers build a business with their skills. Our topics include growing up in the 80s, responsibility, the art of listening, Kent’s book 18 Words to Live By. Kent pulls back the curtain on life as a...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode I chat with Kent Sanders a professional ghostwriter, and host of the Daily Writer podcast and the founder of the Daily Writer Club, a membership community that helps writers build a business with their skills. Our topics include growing up in the 80s, responsibility, the art of listening, Kent’s book 18 Words to Live By. Kent pulls back the curtain on life as a...

Send us Fan Mail This first half of my episode is about PERFECTIONISM. This mental blocker is such a drag! It is a condition I struggle with, as well as my guest for the episode. Vicki Smith is a licensed psychotherapist and coach specializing in people pleasing and perfectionism. She loves seeing people discover their true nature and share it with the world. Vicki brings her personal and professi...

Send us Fan Mail This is the second half of my episode about PERFECTIONISM. This mental blocker is such a drag! It is a condition I struggle with, as well as my guest for the episode, Vicki. Vicki Smith is a licensed psychotherapist and coach specializing in people pleasing and perfectionism. She loves seeing people discover their true nature and share it with the world. Vicki brings her personal...

Send us Fan Mail  It’s February and love is in the air. Though love means different things to each of us. We are going to explore a few meanings today in our first story share.  Each episode in this series will be full of authors’ works on a common theme. Find info on authors and how to submit below. We have a classic tale of how a husband and wife came together, another that will remind you of by...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to season 2! We are kicking things off with a thrill ride. Travel back to the 1930’s with my guest and author Janet Newman. We discuss her book LETTERS FROM CLARA: ONE INTREPID WOMAN’S TRAVELS ON THE EVE OF WAR, 1936-1939. At 40 years of age, this seemingly normal woman from Wisconsin goes on a three-year journey to travel the globe to exotic locations and learn about...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome friends old and new! Season 2 is about to begin. Feb 9, 2023, marks the return. What is new? I've changed my theme song. Interesting and chatty new guests will be talking about mental health, others fascinating books that they have written. This season will also feature several bonus story episodes. During which I will read true stories from writers about a given them...

Send us Fan Mail Come and get started on this cozy whodunit.  Test your skills and see if you can solve the crime before the last letter arrives. This episode contains all 14 letters and the reveal of whodunit.  In Agatha Christie style go back to 1950's England, in a quaint village. You will take on the role of Gwen, a university student, getting mail from her Aunt Ivy and others from the id...

Send us Fan Mail Agatha Christie or Sherlock Holmes fans, have fun trying to solve a murder mystery! Perhaps you've already listened to the murder mystery serial - To Silence a Scandalmonger, and you want to hear it again. Did you start it and then faze out. Have you never tried your hand at figuring out this whodunit? Now the 15 episode drama will be available in one complete audio file. It...

Send us Fan Mail In this flashback episode I think about laughing at our mistakes and not letting them get us down. When the heat goes out, people start to get creative on how to keep warm. I share an opportunity I had, to learn in the kitchen.  Basically, I messed up.  Find out how to NOT make banana bread, told in a very dramatic style.    Do you have any screw ups in the kitchen?  I would love...

Send us Fan Mail On this flashback episode, we relisten to a humorous story from the second release of this podcast. How Jacqui and her husband grade the local light displays on their annual festive drive. Before this look back, Jacqui relates at a surprising interaction on her local drug store.   Share your favorite Christmas decoration photos at – Jacqui Lents - Author | Facebook   #JacquiJustCh...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to Charles Dickens and those wacky Victorians, Christmas gives off ghost story vibes. In this episode Jacqui chatters with Mary Kate, one of the hosts of the podcast East Coast Haunts. In part two of the episode, we begin with other hauntings at Bramshill House. Mary Kate shares shocking tales of her trip to Penhurst Asylum on a ghost hunting adventure.   Share your thought...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to Charles Dickens and those wacky Victorians, Christmas gives off ghost story vibes. In this episode Jacqui chatters with Mary Kate, one of the hosts of the podcast East Coast Haunts. The talk was so successful that this episode, is part one of two. Mary Kate shares an ages old story of a bride who gets married on Christmas day, but then things go awry. Here some of the hi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we focus in on Acts of Kindness to help celebrate Thanksgiving.  The first story has Jacqui chatting with Bert; owner of Bert’s Books in Swindon, England. The store has begun a tag program, which allows people to gift money towards books, a coffee, or a piece of cake to those who need them.   Here are Bert’s socials l @bertsbooks on Facebook, instagram, tiktok and twitte...

Send us Fan Mail Jacqui faces her fear of small spaces.  Setting a challenge of going up to the top of the St. Louis Arch, she endures the tiny elevator system to the top.  Using several behavioral modification tools and a handy anti-anxiety pill, she attempts to overcome a panic inducing fright.  How does she do? Listen and find out. Do you have a story of facing your fears? Share it over at face...

Send us Fan Mail A wonderous autumn celebration is heading your way.  Guy Fawkes Day also known as Bonfire Night is a British tradition that has been adopted by Jacqui and her husband.  Join them and their English mate Lou, as they discuss the history of this holiday.  They will compare how the British celebrate compared to how our American couple have adapted it to work in the American suburbs. ...

Send us Fan Mail Just in time for Halloween, Jacqui has a chat with Grace about her supernatural experiences.  Once a cleaner, Grace has had creepy encounters in, between owner homes, and shares her tales of wandering through an abandoned psychiatric hospital in New York.  If you love spooky stuff nearly as much as Grace you won’t want to miss this episode.   Do you have any supernatural stories o...

Send us Fan Mail Jacqui tells some feel-good tales of generosity, connection, and fun.  All of which take place in her beloved state of Michigan.  Hear about how the band KISS inspired a football team to victory, a bestselling author helps save a local library, and a senior gets a gift from the past leaving him with fond memories.  So much to love in this bonus episode.   Do you have a wonderful h...

Send us Fan Mail Explicit warning – mild adult situation and a few swears.  Jacqui chats with author Jeff Anderson, former employee of the Long Island Railroad.  Jeff shares stories from his long family’s history with the railroad, what it was like to work on the rails, and gives a couple sneak peaks from his upcoming book Thirty Years Behind the Throttle .  One story includes a good old fashion s...

Send us Fan Mail Explicit Warning!  There is some adult language used in this episode.  Not suitable for young children.  Our hostess Jacqui Lents chats with Jess Critchlow, who helps people and business develop skills to help navigate this every changing world.  She has just launched her own podcast Chasing Breadcrumbs.  Jess shares how she was inspired to do that and her entertaining stories of...

Send us Fan Mail This is the final episode in the murder mystery series.  Come find out who whodunit in this cozy mystery.   Test your skills as a detective.  Did you figure it out before the end?     Share your success or thoughts over on my Jacqui Lents Author Facebook page.  Just follow this link - Jacqui Lents - Author | Facebook     #murdermystery #solveamurder #fanchristie #cozymurder   Spec...

Send us Fan Mail Our hostess Jacqui Lents chats with genealogist Heather Murphy.  Heather has a bachelor’s degree in Family History - Genealogy and twenty years of experience helping people discover the stories of their ancestors.  She shows clients how to leverage the power of their ancestry to overcome doubt and fear and capitalize on the skills and success within their family roots.  On this ep...