by lameredith | Mar 29, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Stel Coombe-Heath sat in her home a few years ago, surrounded by the evidence of fast food and donuts she’d eaten, and realized it was her time to ask for help. She’d long taken her fitness and weight to punishing levels, depriving herself for period of...
by lameredith | Mar 21, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Ohio native Jacob Deskins was already an anxious young man when he finally graduated from college and got a job as a teacher. Then the pandemic came, and wiped away his sought-after opportunity. He and his wife faced a difficult choice. Move to Los Angeles, or to the...
by lameredith | Mar 1, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Today is so very significant to me. Stolen By Their Father, the Lifetime Television movie based on my book, Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, premiers today. And it’s 32 years to the day after leaving abuse behind, something to celebrate, indeed....
by lameredith | Mar 1, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
It wasn’t until new schoolmates threatened to lynch her in her teens that (now) Dr. Naeema’s mother had to tell her the truth: her father was not the man on her birth certificate, and was a Black man. In that moment, whom she believed herself to be was...
by lameredith | Mar 1, 2022 | Persistence U podcast show notes
Kerryn Vaughan was living her best life in her 30’s, playing in a rock band in Australia and enjoying the adulation when her younger sister received a cancer diagnosis. Kerryn felt helpless, watching her sister die, and it took a long while before she was able...
