Only One In The Room

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Tia Levings right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: Voyage et Cie: Voyage et Cie's curator Melanie Apple has cultivated a passion for notable moments using the sense of smell. Voyage et C...

What if you grew up in Christian Fundamentalism and were taught that a women’s role was to serve as a model of duty and purity? Author and activist, Tia Levings took her four children and fled her marriage in the middle of the night, leaving everything she had ever known behind. But what if after you remarried, your husband asked you to choose between him and writing. Would you revert back to bein...

Scott and Laura are avid listeners of the What Was That Like podcast. And every once in a while, they are so compelled by an episode that they just have to share with you. Please enjoy this special presentation of the What Was That Like podcast. Probably the most difficult thing for a parent to experience is losing a child. It’s often been said that the English language fails us in this area. 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 Patricia Grayhall right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: Voyage et Cie: Voyage et Cie's curator Melanie Apple has cultivated a passion for notable moments using the sense of smell. Voyage...

Imagine discovering that you were a lesbian at a time in history when being gay was considered to be a mental illness.  Medical doctor and author, Patricia Grayhall was just a kid when she was tackled by another girl in the schoolyard – and a thrill ran through her. So what would you do if you discovered that there were others like you, but no one ever, ever talked about it? Would you decide to ig...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Hannah Sward right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: Voyage et Cie: Voyage et Cie's curator Melanie Apple has cultivated a passion for notable moments using the sense of smell. Voyage et C...

What if you were kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, and grew up to be a stripper and a prostitute? Best-selling author and essayist, Hannah Sward, found herself drinking in drug store bathrooms before therapy sessions, and doing methamphetamines to stay skinny. But what would you do if you realized that you could be the author of your own life story? Would you continue on into an eve...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Melissa Gould right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-o...

What if your husband died unexpectedly? Screenwriter, speaker, essayist, and best-selling author, Melissa Gould, was left to raise her thirteen-year-old daughter by herself when her husband, Joel passed away suddenly, after contracting West Nile Virus. So what would you do if, because of your age, you didn’t look like the typical widow, but you were still grieving? Would you stay silent about your...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Mike Collins right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-ow...

Imagine being thirty-seven years sober from drugs and alcohol and thirty-two years sober from sugar. Michael Collins, founder of Sugar Addiction.com and Quit Sugar Summit grew up believing that sugar was love, eating bread, butter and sugar sandwiches and drinking Kool-Aid with three times the amount of sugar. But what would you do if would do if you realized that not only did sugar give you acne...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Olivia Allen right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: AirDoctor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300...

What if your father was killed by the police while sitting in his car? Olivia Allen, podcaster, coach, and therapist was fifteen years old when she got the call that no one ever wants to get. So what would you do if alcoholism had ravaged your family and after your father’s death, it threatened to take you down for good? Would you succumb to your grief and drink yourself to death? Or would break t...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Wayne Altman right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Want to join The Only One In The Room team? Check out our internship position  PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the...

What if you heard a constant noise in your ears, I’m talking, screeching, loud, and all the time? Combat veteran, Entrepreneur, and founder of Melody Clouds, Wayne Altman, suffered substantial hearing loss while serving his country, which resulted in constant and unbearable tinnitus. So what would you do if one day you discovered something that suddenly made the noise stop? Would you keep this rev...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Matthew Quick right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: Nutrablast: Just visit amazon.com/nutrablast and use code: OneRoom20 for a 20% discount off your entire amazon order. Notion AI: Notio...

What if the novel you wrote went on to become a movie, and not just any movie, one that was nominated for a total of 91 awards and won an Academy Award? Silver Linings Playbook author, Matthew Quick went to the Oscars that year and understood that he was breathing rare air, that he’d achieved something that few other authors would ever achieve. But what would you do if while everything looked amaz...

Last time, we talked about how audiobooks have become one of the nation’s largest bookseller’s most popular formats, accounting for 50% of books that hit number one - isn’t that amazing?  I had the pleasure of reading my debut memoir, Stash My Life In Hiding myself for audio. Scott and I want to share some Stash excerpts with you and today you’ll hear a section from Chapter Four, where I wrote abo...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Brian Lowery right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: Nutrablast: Just visit amazon.com/nutrablast and use code: OneRoom20 for a 20% discount off your entire amazon order. Notion AI: Notion...

What does it mean to be Black in America? Stanford Professor and author, Brian Lowery was called the N-word while riding his bike, arrested as a teen for sitting in his car, and had the police called on him while on a recruiting visit for one of the nation’s most prestigious universities.  So what would you do if some of your peers argued that hardships were hardships and that those events, while...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Carmen Rita Wong right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: AirDoctor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $...

What if you grew up believing a lie? Author, writer, reporter, and producer, Carmen Rita Wong and her brother, Alex, were born to a Dominican mother and a Chinese father - or she thought. So what would you do if, as your mother lay dying, you found out that she’d been lying to you about your father’s identity? Would you accept your mother’s deathbed confession? Or would you do some real detective...

Did you know that audiobooks have become one of the nation’s largest bookseller’s most popular format, accounting for 50% of books that hit number one? I had the pleasure of reading my debut memoir, Stash My Life In Hiding myself for audio. Apparently this is a job that usually goes to an audiobook narrator or an actor, and now I know why! (It was quite demanding!)  Scott and I wanted to share som...

Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Ryan Dusick right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room  Special thanks to our sponsors: AirDoctor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 o...

What if you were the drummer for Maroon 5, and soon after you became one of the best-known bands in the world, you realized that there was something very wrong, something that impaired your ability to play? Founding member of Maroon 5, author and associate marriage and family therapist, Ryan Dusick, found himself keeping his condition a secret from Adam Levine and the rest of his bandmates. Hoping...