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Chronically Candid is a conversational, reflective podcast hosted by Morgan Barrett, a Millennial mom to twins and an adult living with cystic fibrosis.
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From PICC lines to Fairy Tales: On Being "Lucky", Trikafta, and Storytelling for Your Inner Child with Avalon George (opens the original)
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This week on Chronically Candid, Morgan sits down with Avalon George — Minneapolis-based writer and author of the debut middle grade novel Ivy Ever After , out this October — for a conversation that feels less like an interview and more like two old friends finally getting the chance to talk. Before diving in, Avalon shows off her yearly vision board tradition (this year's made a few months late, post-holiday CF crash and all), and the two quickly bond over a shared observation: an awful lot of
Fear and Joy: Two sides of the same coin. (opens the original)
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In this Fireside Friday, Morgan shares a quick life update — the twins started kindergarten this week, and while her daughter breezed in with old friends by her side, watching her son put on a brave face despite feeling some anxiety made her so proud and was a bittersweet realization of his budding maturity. Morgan reads her essay Fear and Joy: Two Sides of the Same Coin — a reflection on chasing joy anyway, from childhood pool jumps haunted by a made-up water woman to nervous a cappella open mi
Part 2 | The Art of Getting Out: Evangelical Upbringing, Cult Survival, and Reclaiming Your Light with Blind Visual Artist, Lindsay Lion Lord (opens the original)
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PART TWO OF TWO | Trigger warnings: Emotional abuse, suicidal ideation In part one of this two-part conversation, Morgan sits down with Lindsay Lion Lord — neurodivergent, legally blind art witch and recent MFA graduate — to trace the arc of a life shaped by an evangelical upbringing that dimmed her light, an abusive psychological cult she escaped at 19, and the shunning that followed. They dig into why cult dynamics are closer to everyday life than most of us want to admit, and what it really t
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