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  • Dr. Lisa Wade: Sex & Hookup Culture 

    Dr. Lisa Wade: Sex & Hookup Culture 

    Sex & hookup culture is what Dr. Lisa Wade and Laura talk about this week. Having written t-h-e book on hookup culture, American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus, we couldn’t be in better hands for this ever more important and deeply relevant conversation. Because hookup culture intimately ties to so much else…

  • Kendall Titus: On Sympathetic Joy, Loss, & Overwhelm

    Kendall Titus: On Sympathetic Joy, Loss, & Overwhelm

    This week Laura talks with Kendall Titus, a wise beyond her years entrepreneur and college student. Kendall shares her thoughts about navigating overwhelm, in college and beyond. They discuss loss and grieving, with Kendall offering concrete strategies that have been helping her over the past year. And they talk about sympathetic joy and all that…

  • Alex Soukakos: Long Term Grieving, Cumulative Loss, & Transitioning to College and Adulthood

    Alex Soukakos: Long Term Grieving, Cumulative Loss, & Transitioning to College and Adulthood

    Join Laura this week as she talks about long-term grieving, cumulative loss, and the transition to college and adulting with Alexander Soukakos, a graphic artist and design student. Alex lost his mother soon after his birth and generously shares with us insights about his years of experience navigating grief and loss. They also discuss the…

  • Jayla Wilson: On Race, Gender, Class & Containing Multitudes

    Jayla Wilson: On Race, Gender, Class & Containing Multitudes

    In this episode, Laura talks with Jayla Wilson. Having known each other for years, they head into previously uncharted waters discussing race, gender, class, and so much more. Studying English Literature and Environmental Science in college, Jayla speaks about the various intersections in her life that have been both challenging and growth inducing: being Black,…

  • Flynn David Resnick: Redefining What it Means to be a Survivor

    Flynn David Resnick: Redefining What it Means to be a Survivor

    Transitions are often overwhelming. In this episode, Laura and Flynn dive in, covering grief to growth, pandemic isolation to reconnection, and adolescence to young adulthood. Flynn, a college student in NYC, shares about being the only trans person in his high school, surviving sexual assault, losing his beloved mother, and moving across the country to…