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Grief, joy, and everything in between. Writing it all from a place of yes.
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The Why Behind The Win (opens the original)
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Sometimes things happen that make me so happy that I forget that the whole reason they are happening is that Jake died. And that is sort of a buzzkill. Like yesterday morning, we received the news that A Place of Yes is a 2026 Signal Awards Finalist. What great news! Until I remembered the why. So many of my guests have this same moment, or actually many moments over the course of their lives. Times when they are so proud and ha
Milestones. (opens the original)
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Milestones. During some periods of life, they seem to come at us faster. For parents, one of those times is the stretch between 16 and 23. Driver’s licenses, college visits, applications, graduations, first jobs, adulthood, and all kinds of new beginnings. It can feel like something new happens every day.But add grief to those milestones, and they become something entirely different.Mellisa Allen knows this all too well. Her daughter, Olivia Allen, was diagnosed with leukemia towards the end of
The Highlight Reel (opens the original)
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Who knows if this is true, but there is a theory out there that right before you die, you see a highlight reel of your life. Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, it’s a neat idea. Today’s A Place of Yes guest, Danielle Phillips, heard about this theory, and when her daughter Angelina was diagnosed with a rare and fatal cancer at age 3, she worried that if it was true, her highlight reel would not be all that exciting. What followed were seven and a half years of trea
The Absurdity of Life (opens the original)
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Life can be truly absurd.I don’t mean absurd as in funny or ridiculous. I mean those moments when life can be completely real and still feel impossible.That idea ultimately became a theme of my conversation with David Ferrugio. David was 12 years old when his father died in the September 11 attacks. We talk about things so unimaginable we can’t even process that they’ve actually happened. Even when we know firsthand that they have.A plane flying into a building.A child dying.A person you love he
One More Look Back (opens the original)
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Summer break is just about over. For me. For A Place of Yes. And I'm ready.We never really stopped working. We recorded new podcast episodes all summer. But somehow, it still felt like an old-fashioned summer break. The heat. The adventures. The long days. Having Ethan home for four months (except for his seven-week stint in Boston). And honestly, it was an excellent summer. We spent the hiatus looking back at so many A Place of Yes episodes and
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