Only One In The Room

“The police are the community and the community is the police. If we don’t start recognizing that simple fact, if we don’t start healing – together, we will continue to wake up to the same headlines of unarmed black men being shot, of police officers being ambushed, and of a growing rift between police and the people they’re sworn to protect.” Today’s guest is police officer, Dr. Obed Magny. Dr. M...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Kelly Nishimoto right after the show. Don't miss our Now Normal series releasing every Thursday. Be sure to join our Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on guests, episodes and more. You can also DM us on Instagram @theonlyoneintheroom or email us via the website at...

Imagine growing up bi-racial in a small Georgia town, the daughter of divorced parents, a Scottish/Irish father, and a Japanese mother. Kelly Nishimoto, self-taught, Los Angeles-based fashion designer, lifestyle pimp, and creator of Cutebootylounge, designed a wedding dress out of trash bags and electrical tape at 13, and eventually launched a full collection at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.  But wh...

Although women are at greater risk for negative consequences following traumatic events, many often hesitate to seek mental health treatment. Survivors often wait years to receive help, while others never receive treatment at all. Untreated posttraumatic symptoms not only have tremendous mental health implications but can also lead to adverse effects on physical health. Female survivors may encoun...

January 2021 marks the ninth month of a pandemic. Drinking (day and otherwise) has skyrocketed, and for people in recovery, relapsing (drinking again after one has set a sobriety date) has too. So just how does one retain or regain their balance in recovery during this perilous time? Today we have my dear, dear friend and woman of the hour, Holly Whitaker. Holly’s best-selling book, Quit Like A Wo...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Chris Browning right after the show. Don't miss our Now Normal series releasing every Thursday. Be sure to join our Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on guests, episodes and more. You can also DM us on Instagram @theonlyoneintheroom or email us via the website at...

Imagine being a successful working actor, booking movie after movie, show after show, and being the envy of your peers.  Chris Browning, American film and television actor, was living the dream before succumbing to an addiction so powerful that he ended up losing his home and began a life of homelessness, winding up in an encampment under LA’s infamous 405 freeway. But what would you do if while g...

Webster’s definition of a bucket list is simple: "a list of things that one has not done before but wants to do before dying".  But picture this: Your father’s life is taken by a distracted driver, and after his death, you find a bucket list that was created the year you were born - some items checked off and others still not accomplished. Would you take it upon yourself to complete his bucket lis...

Now that coronavirus vaccines are being distributed, the first people to get it have become de facto ambassadors for it, reassuring the public that it’s safe. As U.S. states figure out how to roll out the inoculations, some people are wondering whether to get it at all, often because they’re scrolling in online communities where emotional anti-vaxxer anecdotes spread faster than accepted science....

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Lady Bain right after the show. Don't miss our Now Normal series releasing every Thursday. Be sure to join our Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on guests, episodes and more. You can also DM us on Instagram @theonlyoneintheroom or email us via the website at www.t...

Picture this: A Black woman dreams of serving underserved communities, and grows up to become one of Detroit Michigan’s finest, a policewoman. When Cassandra “Lady” Bain, former Detroit police officer and internationally acclaimed singer, put on her Detroit PD uniform and served with her fellow officers, she knew that she had found her purpose, and was proud to serve and protect in the community w...

To round out our 2020, we wanted to bring you something really special as our last episode of the year. Previous guests Rochelle Webb of Episode 46: Rochelle Webb Is The Only One Who Finds Power In Being Self-Partnered and Traci Kearney of Episode 53: Traci Kearney Is The Only One Fighting To Prove Her Husband's Innocence combine forces to come together with one mission: to bring Traci Kearney's h...

Picture this: Two weeks after a traumatic birth and a cerebral palsy diagnosis, you are adopted and taken to a small town in the south where you and your siblings are the only Black children with white parents. Imagine then, being thirteen-years-old and making the decision to come out and tell your family that you are a lesbian. Nineteen-year-old Bliss Besinger is now a sophomore at Meredith Colle...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Monique Farook right after the show. Don't miss our Now Normal series releasing every Thursday. Be sure to join our Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on guests, episodes and more. You can also DM us on Instagram @theonlyoneintheroom or email us via the website at...

Picture this, you and your husband are young and in love and the only thing that’s missing from your lives is a baby.  Monique Farook, host of the popular podcast, Infertility And Me, found herself in an impossible position when it became clear that she wasn’t going to get pregnant the way the rest of her friends and family had, that she and her husband were not going to conceive a baby naturally....

Season 5 of the Only One In The Room began in early April 2020 and the show couldn't help but respond to the reality that was unfolding regarding COVID-19. Therefore, the COVID Warriors bonus series was launched in order to learn from and honor those who work in fields that have stories to share related to the pandemic. Laura Cathcart's father happens to be one of those people and we are delighted...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Sergey Young right after the show. Don't miss our Now Normal series releasing every Thursday. Be sure to join our Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on guests, episodes and more. You can also DM us on Instagram @theonlyoneintheroom or email us via the website at ww...

What if you had an amazing life, an enviable career, a beautiful family, the respect and admiration of your colleagues, and most importantly, your health? Sergey Young, author, economy & finance expert, and founder of the $100 million Longevity Vision Fund, went to his doctor for his annual checkup and got some disturbing news, news that would require a daily life-long, medication regimen. But wha...

Weight stigma is something we touched on in earlier episodes like with Randy Jackson who talked about his journey with Gastric Bypass surgery, or Athena Dixon who talked about shrinking to make herself appear smaller. But our society's diet culture, this obsession with thinness and the resulting eating disorders and body dysmorphia isn’t something we’ve ever really explored - until now. Today’s gu...

In season five we pivoted from our COVID Warriors series to address the ever-changing climate to what we are calling The NOW Normal. This episode was the launch of this new series and one of our fan favorites. Thank you all so much for listening and sharing. Please enjoy this pivotal episode from season five, while Laura and Scott continue to record brand-new episodes for season eight of The Only...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Traci Kearney right after the show. Don't miss our Now Normal series releasing every Thursday. Be sure to join our Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on guests, episodes and more. You can also DM us on Instagram @theonlyoneintheroom or email us via the website at w...

Can you picture being on the quest for the perfect woman, a woman at your level who loves and understands her own potential? Now can you picture being a kid, too young still to get your driver’s license but already knowing what you want in your mate? Robert Ri’chard, Emmy award-winning actor/producer, chef, and spokesperson was cared for and prepared for life by his grandfather and father. Men, wh...

Season seven was our most downloaded season EVER! Thank you all so much for listening and sharing. Please enjoy this fan-favorite from season six, while Laura and Scott continue to record brand-new episodes for season eight of The Only One In The Room. To mark the occasion of our one-year anniversary this past April, we asked YOU, our listeners, to submit your fabulous Only One stories with the ob...

Season seven was our most downloaded season EVER! Thank you all so much for listening and sharing. Please enjoy this fan-favorite from season five, while Laura and Scott continue to record brand-new episodes for season eight of The Only One In The Room. In an effort to really acknowledge this time, this crisis that seems to keep going on and on, hosts Laura Cathcart Robbins & Scott Slaughter track...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Geoffrey Owens right after the show. Don't miss our Now Normal series releasing every Thursday. Be sure to join our Facebook Group for the most up-to-date info on guests, episodes and more. You can also DM us on Instagram @theonlyoneintheroom or email us via the website at...