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Connectedness is a podcast about the magic and mess of being human together.Hosted by Fernanda, founder of Filled Cups, this show dives into the real, vulnerable, and often bumpy journey of building meaningful relationships - platonically, romantically, and with…
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Ep. 42: Who Were You Before Motherhood? Reclaiming Your Identity with Mare (opens the original)
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At 12 years old, Mare survived a traumatic brain injury that erased her memory and forced her to rebuild her identity from scratch. Decades later, she founded Oshanah, a personal development practice rooted in neuroplasticity, to help other people do the same thing, on purpose. In this episode of Connectedness, Mare and I talk about what happens to a woman's sense of self after years of mothering, caretaking, and putting everyone else first. We talk about why identity loss in motherhood is so co
Ep. 41: How "I know my worth" changed Jenny Ferran: A story of connection, surviving cancer, and grief (opens the original)
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Jenny Ferran was a French teacher at a school with a tough reputation when she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019. She thought the hard part would be the diagnosis itself. It wasn't. The hard part came later, when she realized she'd spent years operating out of fear, measuring her worth by how useful she was to everyone else, and living a life that looked right from the outside but didn't feel like hers.In this episode, Jenny talks about the moment her students, kids who'd been written off
Ep 40: The Viral TikTok That Built a Real Friend Group (Evan Oliver's Story) (opens the original)
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Evan Oliver moved to Charlotte in her 30s with her husband and baby daughter, ready for a fresh start. Two weeks later she lost her job, and she didn't know a single person in the city. So she did something most of us are too scared to do. She posted one honest TikTok video asking if anyone wanted to be friends.That video went viral in Charlotte, and over 700 women messaged her. In this episode, Evan talks about what happened next: meeting up with over a hundred of those women one by one, hostin
Ep. 39: Adult ADHD Diagnosis: How It Rewires Your Relationships and Self-Worth (opens the original)
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What if the thing you spent your whole life blaming yourself for was never a character flaw at all?In this episode of Connectedness, I sit down with Kathleen Long, founder of Coached by Kath and an ADHD life coach who spent over 20 years in education before being diagnosed with ADHD herself at 41. Kathleen coaches adults, teens, and families, and she brings a national board certification, trauma insight certification through NAMI, and two decades of lived classroom experience into every session.
Ep. 38: Narcissistic Households, Explained: Roles, Gaslighting & Healing | Dr. Nzinga Cates | Connectedness (opens the original)
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If you grew up with a narcissistic mother or father, you already know the confusion isn't really about one bad day or one hard conversation. It's a whole way of surviving that gets built into you before you even have words for it.In this episode of Connectedness, I sit down with Dr. Nzinga Cates, victimologist, licensed clinical mental health counselor, and one of the first researchers to center the lived experience of Black daughters raised by narcissistic mothers. She's also the author of What
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