Bring Your Own Baggage Podcast
1) Goodbye Grandma
This episode was recorded on June 18th, 2020, shortly after my grandmother passed away in her sleep. She was 90 years old and she had been battling lung and pancreatic cancer for many months prior. Th...Show More
2) Resilience from Trauma
Our guest, Kelly joins us on today’s episode to share her story of how she was repeatedly sexually abused by her paternal grandfather between the ages of 4 and 8 years old. Sexual abuse has been a com...Show More
3) Tales from Teaching
Our guest, "T," joins us on the podcast today. He currently works as a history teacher here at a local high school in Michigan, and he brought this idea to me about sharing tales from his time teachin...Show More
4) Sibling Sexual Abuse
Brad Watts joins us on the podcast to talk about his work as a licensed therapist with a specialty in sexual offenses and sibling sexual abuse at a residential center called Hallmark Youth in Virginia...Show More
5) Rising Voices of Asian American Families
Laura Misumi, Fatema Haque, and Fiana Arbab, three incredibly bright women who serve on the board of a group called Rising Voices of Asian American Families, join us today on the podcast. In this conv...Show More
6) Hyperadrenergic POTS
Carley Gordon joins us on the podcast today to revisit the topic of chronic illness. Carley has been living with a chronic condition known as Hyperadrenergic POTS which she will talk more in-depth abo...Show More
7) Retirement Answer Man
Today we’re sitting down with the Retirement Answer Man himself, Roger Whitney, to talk about financial planning in the midst of a pandemic, how to keep your finances on track through the peaks and va...Show More
8) Embarrassing Stories
She’s back! My friend Kaori, who you might remember from Episode 9 where we discussed some of the cultural differences between Japan and the US, and I are BACK for an audio mukbang. Join us as we enjo...Show More
9) The Frontline Health Worker's Perspective
Sat down to talk/catch up with one of my favorite humans on this Earth, my cousin Mason, who is considered an essential frontline healthcare worker in Nashville. This was an opportunity to pick his br...Show More
10) Connection During COVID-19
For the second episode in this mini season, we’re going one-on-one to talk about connection in the time of COVID-19 quarantine. There are so many cool things that people are doing that goes to show th...Show More