HeyJaredWho We Become - Life Beyond Change
Who We Become, Life Beyond Change is a podcast hosted by Amanda, exploring the space after life-altering moments — illness, loss, caregiving, and unexpected change.
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Laura Todd: Motherhood Without a Map and the Phone Call You Can't Make (opens the original)
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Today's conversation explores what it means to become a mother without the one person you always expected to guide you through it. My guest, Laura Todd - licensed clinical counselor, perinatal mental health specialist, and founder of Early Bond Therapy - shares her powerful story of losing her mother to breast cancer in 2015 and then becoming a mother herself six years later, during COVID, in isolation, without the support she had imagined. Laura opens up about the shock of her mother's rapid de
We Are Not Our Diagnosis with Linda & Tamara Zoldak (opens the original)
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A mother and a daughter — and a story that began long before either of them ever heard the word "diagnosis." It started with a loss: Linda Zoldak lost her only child. Then, an ocean away, a beginning — a 22-month-old named Tamara, adopted from Bulgaria into Linda's arms. Decades later, Linda was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis, and Tamara — a paramedic living with her own fibromyalgia — stepped into caregiving. Two women, two chronic illnesses, one shared refusal to let tho
Our Bodies Whisper Until They Shout (opens the original)
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For years, the labs kept coming back "normal" — while Ashley lived in a body that felt anything but. 35 pounds of unexplained weight gain, joint pain, brain fog, crippling fatigue, and a changing voice. Doctor after doctor sent her home. Then she stopped waiting for someone else to figure it out. In this episode of Who We Become — Life Beyond Change, Amanda Lentz sits down with Ashley Cruz Arata — integrative hormone health specialist and founder of Ashley Cruz Arata Wellness — about what the st
Dr. Kasi Lacey: On Toxic Leadership, Burnout, Reinvention & Reclaiming Confidence (opens the original)
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They Said He'd Hire a Man. She Told Him He'd Hire Her Instead. Dr. Kasi Lacey moved out on her own at 16. School was her safe place, so she chased stability the only way she knew how — through her grades, her degrees, and fifteen years climbing higher education all the way to a president's cabinet. She had the title, the influence, the seat at the table. And then she named the environment for what it was: an abusive relationship. In this episode, Dr. Lacey joins Amanda Lentz for an honest conver
Cindy Mich: Love, Loss, and the Life Built for Two (opens the original)
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Today’s conversation explores love in its hardest and most human form — the kind that asks everything of you. My guest, Cindy Mich, shares the story of loving her partner Michael through stage‑4 lymphoma, becoming his caregiver, advocate, and constant presence, and then navigating the grief and identity shift that followed his passing. Cindy opens up about the beginning of their relationship, the long‑distance years, and the moment she realized something was wrong. She talks about the emotional
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