The Silver Linings Handbook

Joining Jayson today is Elizabeth McMaster, an attorney and an advocate who focuses on areas of law that intersect with Elder law, guardianship and mental health. Elizabeth not only practices law in this area, but she has a true passion for helping people whose psychological, social and financial wellbeing are negatively impacted and the legal tools that exist that can be brought to bear to improv...

In this episode, Kevin Greenlee, an attorney, and Áine Cain, a journalist, and hosts of The Murder Sheet Podcast join Jayson to talk about their journeys and their backgrounds about what motivates them, about what brought them together as a team in life and in covering cases and about some of the challenges that are being faced right now by the news media. As they work to push against the headwind...

Katie Moran is an author, speaker, social media influencer and an advocate for mental health, sexual assault and suicide prevention. Katie is a survivor of sexual assault, suicide attempts and suicidal ideation and has spoken with remarkable openness about her challenges with depression and anxiety in a world in which we can be prone at times to forget the stigma that still exists around these top...

In this episode, Jayson is joined by Greg Lygon, a former member of Calvary Temple, a church in Sterling, Virginia that has spent more than a decade ensnared in scandals about emotional, sexual and physical abuse, controlling members and alienating them from the rest of the world. They will talk about community, loss of power and religion, the prevalence of cults hidden behind buildings that look...

This is a Silver Linings Handbook bonus episode with The Murder Sheet Podcast with the hosts, Kevin and Áine. We talk about the Delphi Murders and the media circus surrounding them. This episode originally aired on The Murder Sheet but includes additional content for Silver Linings Handbook listeners. I can remember the moments walking along a rural street in Leesburg, Virginia when I wondered wha...

Jayson is joined by Brett Tally, an author of several bestselling novels and anthologies including He Who Walks in Shadow , That Which Should Not Be and The Fiddle Is the Devil's Instrument . He has been twice nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement which is the top award for horror writing presented annually by the Horror Writers Association. Brett is also the author of sever...

Jayson is joined by Brett Tally, an author of several bestselling novels and anthologies including He Who Walks in Shadow , That Which Should Not Be and The Fiddle Is the Devil's Instrument . He has been twice nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement which is the top award for horror writing presented annually by the Horror Writers Association. Brett is also the author of sever...

Two weeks ago, the author Allison Dickson joined us for a surprisingly bright conversation about darkness and this week I joined Allison on her podcast, Ding Dong Darkness Time, a show that explores the weird, the morbid and the macabre whether supernatural or not. More than a podcast about horror or the paranormal, Ding Dong Darkness Time is an exploration of society, culture, sociology, psycholo...

Jayson is joined by Julia Cowley, a retired FBI agent and Criminal Profiler. Julia spent 22 years in law enforcement investigating violent crime including 11 years as an agent and a decade more as a member of the famed Behavioral Analysis Unit or BAU. Julia makes no bones about the fact that true crime is what led her toward forensic science and law enforcement. Prior to joining the FBI, Julia was...

Joining Jayson today is Allison Dickson, who's been writing novels and short stories for more than 15 years and who's the host of the Ding Dong Darkness Time podcast. Allison is the author of several well-reviewed, independently published novels as well as a debuted thriller, The Other Mrs. Miller. That book was picked up by Putnam in the United States and other publishers across the globe. Some o...

Jason is the creator, producer, writer and head elf of the true crime satire podcast Santa Maybe, a Criminal. Jason has been an audio producer for more than a half dozen popular podcasts including several popular true crime podcasts and those of other genres. We talk about creating and writing fictional characters, both those that are naughty and those that are nice and how to create authentic cha...

In this episode, Jayson is joined by Shawn Rech, a documentary director and producer and former journalist who's mostly known for his films that document wrongful convictions and unjust sentencing. Sean has been a frequent guest on television shows and podcasts over the last few weeks because of his directing of the recent film Convicting a Murderer, a rebuttal to the Netflix documentary, Mak...

We have taken you to what the life of a New York Times reporter and a podcaster trying to cover The Lost and Forgotten is like. We've looked at the world through the eyes of an FBI profiler and a woman who's trying to catch a serial killer who's killed her cousin. But this month...the month of October, each week we're going to take you into the world of horror, the paranormal, and some darkness. W...

At a time when so much divides us, music like fictional books, television and movies are one of those things that tends to bring us together, Dani and Colton and their group NI/CO, have put a focus on what ties us together as partners in life and in music. In 2016, Colton and Dani began writing and within two years they had a body of work that they released their first single which was a creative...

In today's episode, we continue our conversation with Gloria Bobertz about the uncaught Lewis-Clark Valley Serial Killer who is believed to have killed her 21-year-old cousin, the 1982 Lewiston Civic Theatre murders in Lewiston, ID, the 1979 murder of 12-year-old Christina Lee White in Asotin, WA and the 1981 and the links between them. In a conversation that is in turns saddening, maddening and i...

On a cool September night in Lewiston, a town of nearly 28,000 people along the Snake River in Idaho, three young people went missing from the Lewiston Civic Theatre, a community theatre in a building originally constructed in 1907 as a methodist church. Among others, 21-year-old Kristina Nelson disappeared and was found dead months later. That began Gloria Bobertz's decade long search for the ser...

Jayson is joined by Shiloh, a forensic and law enforcement psychologist and host of the true crime podcast, L.A. Not So Confidential. Forensic psychologists play a much broader and more nuanced role in law enforcement and criminal justice. At its core, forensic psychology is the practice of psychology as it applies to the law and it's a way to bring behavioral scientific knowledge and methods...

In this episode, Jayson is joined by Robert Parmer, the host to The Broken Systems Podcast, a podcast focused on bringing justice to those who deserve it. The people whose cases are derailed for a variety of reasons, whether it's tunnel vision, their socioeconomic backgrounds, their mental health, the neighborhood they live in, internal problems with law enforcement or just plain laziness. Robert...

Jayson is joined by John Cleghorn who is the pastor of Caldwell Presbyterian Church in the Elizabeth neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. John has served at Caldwell since 2008 where he's the minister and head of staff at the church. Caldwell is a progressive mission-oriented church at the time when participation in the church and all sorts of religious organizations in America has declined,...

As a mental health coach and former New York Times reporter, Jayson Blair brings his deep curiosity and strong belief in the value of human life to each episode. The goal is to make you feel like you're sitting in the same room, having a chat with some of the most fascinating individuals. The Silver Linings Handbook podcast is a welcoming and inclusive space for discussion. The door is always open...

In this episode, Jayson is joined by Kevin Joseph Grogan, who is a former Savannah Chatham metropolitan police department homicide detective who has a reputation as a straight shooter, who cares passionately about public safety and the people in the mostly poor minority and dangerous neighborhoods that for twelve years he was sworn to protect. Kevin has traded his badge and gun in for a pen and no...

In this episode, Jayson is joined by Kevin Joseph Grogan who is a former Savannah Chatham metropolitan police department homicide detective who has a reputation as a straight shooter, who cares passionately about public safety and the people in the mostly poor minority and dangerous neighborhoods that for twelve years he was sworn to protect. Kevin has traded his badge and gun in for a pen and now...

Jayson is joined by attorneys Brett Talley and Alice LaCour, and hosts of the true crime podcast, The Prosecutors. In this episode we're going to talk about Brett and Alice's backgrounds, their histories, what made them who they are, the community that's been built around their podcast, some of the value that comes from open debate, some of the challenges in true crime podcasting, as well as what...

Jayson is joined by attorneys Brett Talley and Alice LaCour, and hosts of the true crime podcast, The Prosecutors. Today we're going to talk about the real life of being a prosecutor and an attorney, the role that the legal system and the rule of law plays in upholding democracy, the myths and misconceptions around those roles and about crime and the role that prosecutors play. Learn more by visit...

In this collaboration with The Science of Personality Podcast, Jayson joins Ryne Sherman and Blake Loepp of Hogan Assessments to talk about "Coaching the Whole Person." The coaching profession has long said that it focuses on the whole person, but the mental health of Jayson’s clients during the pandemic suggests that maybe coaches haven’t been doing the best job of practicing that approach. Learn...