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A deep connection to humanity: Motherhood in the 21st century
From: Suki Wessling
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Women discuss the challenges but especially the joys of being a mother. In this time of social media oversharing, young women may get the message t...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 187: Going Deep on Childhood with Dr. Dima Amso , 4/7/2024
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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Nature, Nurture and Good Enough Parenting

  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
Episode 154: Jennifer Wallace on Mattering in a Modern World, 8/20/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes you feel like you matter?

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
StoryCorps: Heidi Koss and Elora Koss-Nobel
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Heidi Koss and Elora Koss-Nobel at their StoryCorps interview in Wenatchee, WA on June 22, 2009., Credit: By Whitney Henry-Lester for StoryCorps.
Heidi Koss tells her daughter, Elora, about her first years as a new mom and her experience with postpartum depression.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WYAP


  • Added: May 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 2
The Lisa Show - The Harsh Reality of Parenthood
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Lisa and friends discuss what life is really like as parents.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps Griot: Jade Rone and Stacia Parker
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Jade Rone talks to her foster mother, Stacia Parker, about the early days of their relationship and the journey that brought them closer together.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Jamie Olivieri and Yennie Neal-Achigbu
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Best friends Jamie Olivieri and Yennie Neal-Achigbu talk about being beside each other through the highs and lows of life, and how they’ve learned ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
StoryCorps: Michelle Huston and Lauren Magaña
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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In 2018, Michelle Huston came to StoryCorps with her daughter, Lauren Magaña, to talk about her life’s calling to take care of the dying, and how i...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 03:05
StoryCorps: Dena Kohleriter and Jori Kohleriter
From: StoryCorps
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Dena Kohleriter had always seen herself becoming a mother one day. So when she was 36 years old, she decided to have a child on her own.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
Tying a Knot
From: Israel Story
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A series of random events in Nepal bring an Israeli reporter and a nepalese teenager to grow an unlikely bond.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 23:57
StoryCorps: Anna Freeman and Brianna Freeman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
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Anna Freeman and her daughter, Brianna, discuss how bullies have impacted their lives.

Bought by WEZU and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 2
Last Best Stories: Episode 3
From: Jule Banville
Series: Last Best Stories
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Blobs + Heartbreak is the third episode of the podcast Last Best Stories produced by Jule Banville. It features two stories: The first (9:06), "Cri...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 15:05
Mama, I'm a Girl
From: Marlo Mack
Series: How to Be a Girl
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A mother comes to terms with the fact that her young son...is actually her daughter.

Bought by XRAY.fm, HowSound, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2014
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 7
Supermoms
From: Sarah Lawrence College Radio
Caption: Frimet Goldberger and her family
College can be tough but students who are also mothers have to balance work with real-life home work.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 10:00
A Nurse Remembers: Thumbelina, a Green Dress, and the Little Girl With Red Hair
From: Emma Deans
Caption: Lorelle Pelletier
There are some people who simply know how to tell a story. They can recount experiences with such vivid detail that the listener feels instantly tr...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 16:37
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Incarcerated mother in Decatur Prison’s Nursery Program and Reunification Unit. , Credit: Photo courtesy of Shannon Heffernan http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Making Noise to Prevent More Noise
From: Hillary Frank
Series: The Longest Shortest Time
Caption: Like a lot of kids with Tourette's, Finn also has severe ADHD. The flip side of that, Amanda says, is that his high energy makes him a ton of fun., Credit: Amanda Morgan
A toddler sniffs all of his Christmas presents before opening them and his mom realizes something is really wrong. What Tourette’s, OCD, and ADHD l...

Bought by PRX Remix and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 2
Representing Yourself in Court
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A mother struggles to represent herself in a custody dispute when she runs out of money to pay her lawyer.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: http://www.timeontheoutside.com, Credit: Shannon Heffernan
A look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside US jails and prisons. What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next g...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Flatline Days
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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The story of being bipolar and being a mom.

Bought by KUOW, KFAI Minneapolis, WMPG, SALTcast Podcast, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 5
One Story of Disability Care in New Mexico
From: Rogi Riverstone
Series: KUNM News
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Interview with a single mom of two developmentally and physically challenged daughters on her struggles with the medical profession and the Childre...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 11:27
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
A Welcome Home
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A profile of a Maine foster mother who's taken in dozens of kids over the years.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 21, 2009
  • Length: 07:13
  • Purchases: 1