Only One In The Room

Imagine growing up Pfeiffer, younger sister to Michelle and an actress in your own right. And then during a ten-year absence from Hollywood, you earn a Bachelors and a Masters from UCLA, before dealing with something that you’d thought you might be able to keep to yourself - alcoholism. For years, Actress Dedee Pfeifer presented a good front, but one day after starting to dial an 800 number for he...

Blood alcohol concentrations aren’t just something police measure with a breathalyzer. Yes, your blood alcohol concentration or BAC is used by police when measuring just how intoxicated you were when you made the decision to get behind the wheel of your car, but your BAC is also used by doctors when determining just how drunk you really are. There are a lot of reasons to be concerned about some pe...

Today's reading is from Chapter Five of Group, the critically acclaimed writer and essayist, Christie Tate. Christie O. Tate is a Chicago-based writer and essayist. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Pithead Chapel, McSweeney’s, Motherwell, Entropy Magazine, A Perfect Wedding, Together.com, Brain, Child and others. Her debut memoir, Group,...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Meg Weber right after the show. Special thanks to our Sponsor Betterhelp: Start living a happier life today! As an Only On In The Room listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at Betterhelp.com/One. Join the over one million people who have take...

Imagine contacting someone through a dating app, only you’re not looking for a date, you’re looking for someone to dominate you, to be the top to your bottom. Meg Weber, Memoirist and mental health therapist spent a year with Mr. Lucky, the moniker she’d given to the top she wanted to bottom with, but she ended up catching feelings for him, just before he ghosted her. So what would you do if you w...

Parental alienation occurs during a high-conflict divorce in which the child identifies strongly with one parent, usually the custodial parent. The alienating parent programs the child to despise their other parent by criticizing the alienated parent and interfering with their relationship.  Here to dive into this with us is Dr. Petra Deeter. Dr. Deeter is an award-winning film director and a soci...

Today is Meditation Awareness Day, and in honor of that we are departing a bit from our typical reading and bringing you two of our favorite calming, restorative and relaxing meditations from two of our favorite previous guests, Katie Krimitsos and Jeff Kober. I read the first one, by Katie and then Scott follows with his reading of Jeff's. We really hope you enjoy them. Katie Krimitsos Katie is a...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Tim Brown right after the show. Special thanks to our Sponsor Betterhelp: Start living a happier life today! As an Only On In The Room listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at Betterhelp.com/One. Join the over one million people who have take...

Imagine responding to an emergency call on September 11, 2001 and finding yourself at the base of the south tower as it collapsed. Tim Brown, retired, decorated 20-year FDNY firefighter and a survivor of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, lost 93 of his friends on Sept. 11th, including his two best friends. So what would you do if you’d survived the most horrific attack ever to t...

Jason Feifer is the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur magazine and host of two podcasts: Build For Tomorrow, a show about the things from history that shaped us and how we can shape the future and Problem Solvers, about entrepreneurs solving unexpected problems in their business. Twitter: @heyfeifer Instagram: @heyfeifer  Website: jasonfeifer.com  Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jasonfeifer/  Podcasts: Bu...

Laura wrote this (slightly) racy piece back in 2019 and The Temper published it in 2020 with a new title (and a few edits).   Laura Cathcart Robbins is an author, writer, podcast host, mother of Miles and Justin, Hon’s GF, dedicated inclusionist, disruptor, thought leader, ally, volunteer, storyteller, public speaker, and often the only one in the room. Find out more about her on her website, or y...

Occasionally we run across a podcast so good that we just have to share it with you.  Today, it’s Role Model, which dropped this week.  Role Model, hosted by British model and fashion designer Leomie Anderson, sits down with industry “role models” who have carved out a space for themselves at the cutting edge of culture and business. Leomie chats with her guests to explore how on their road to suc...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Cheo Hodari Coker right after the show. Special thanks to our Sponsor Betterhelp: Start living a happier life today! As an Only On In The Room listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at Betterhelp.com/One. Join the over one million people who h...

What if you were like the Black kid from Stranger Things, and you grew up knowing everything about comic books, and Dungeons and Dragons but you had to drive half an hour out of town to get a haircut? Cheo Coker grew up in Storrs, Connecticut playing with multi-colored dice and reading J.R.R. Tolkien. But then after covering music while at Stanford University he found himself right at home in anot...

Today is Mother’s day and to honor what this day is and what it means, we want to talk about birth with advanced birth doula, postpartum educator, child sleep consultant and podcaster, Adriana Lozada. Adriana believes in, and advocates for the transformational power of giving birth. She’s also a bestselling author, speaker, and the creator and host of the acclaimed Birthful podcast. Visit the webs...

Today, in honor of Mental Health Month, I am reading the essay, Not Just Me, by best-selling author, Lisa Jakub.   Lisa Jakub is an author, therapeutically-focused yoga teacher, mental wellness educator, and retired actor who has more than FORTY film and television credits to her name. At the age of twenty-two, Lisa retired from her eighteen-year acting career and found a more purposeful path as a...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Karen Brailsford right after the show. Special thanks to our Sponsor Betterhelp: Start living a happier life today! As an Only On In The Room listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at Betterhelp.com/One. Join the over one million people who ha...

What if, as a child, you were drawn to the church, not necessarily by what was being preached from the pulpit, but by the music and spirit that you felt and heard while you were there? Karen Brailsford author, spiritual guide, and intuitive creator was always a seeker and found herself on many different career paths throughout her life, but never gave up hope that there was something out there for...

Heather is a strategy and experiential content consultant. During quarantine, she created an anonymous matchmaking experiment based on the exchange of voice memos and then proceeded to spend the next 11 months creating the experience into the 6-episode podcast, It's Nice to Hear You. Heather is an enthusiastic hobbyist, consumer of culture, seeker of connection, fan of Dutch golden age paintings a...

Today I am reading the essay, The Dissemble, by author, blogger and art dealer, Carine Fabius.  From Carine’s “about” page on her website: I am an author and blogger, art dealer, freelance museum curator, jewelry designer, and co-owner of Lakaye Studio, which manufactures all-natural temporary tattoo kits, using henna and jagua, a fruit from the Amazon. I am a native of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I ca...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Andrea Owen right after the show. Special thanks to our Sponsor Betterhelp: Start living a happier life today! As an Only On In The Room listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at Betterhelp.com/One. Join the over one million people who have ta...

Have you ever thought it was love at first sight only to find yourself obsessing over that person to the point where you wonder if there’s maybe something else going on? In 2007, author, podcast host, and professional certified life coach, Andrea Owen, read the book, Facing Love Addiction, by Pia Melody and wondered, “how did this woman sneak into my life and spy on me?” So what would you do if yo...

A few weeks ago I received a pitch that read, “The current addiction system doesn’t work and is killing more people every year. But here’s the catch, the system continues to blame the individual. Something has to be done before more lives are lost, which is why Dr. Adi Jaffe is going against the status quo in order to completely change the way addiction is thought of and help millions of people br...

Today’s reading is from the chapter titled, “Scene Number One” by the critically acclaimed author, Meg Weber. Meg Weber writes memoir about sex, grief, love, family, therapy, and tangled relationships. Meg's writing gives voice to the ways her life continues to unfold outside the boundaries prescribed for her. She is a queer mental health therapist who specializes in gender and sexuality. She live...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Matt Cox right after the show. Special thanks to our Sponsor Betterhelp: Start living a happier life today! As an Only On In The Room listener, you’ll get 10% off your first month by visiting our sponsor at Betterhelp.com/One. Join the over one million people who have taken...