About Face
Summary: A storytelling and interview podcast about big turning points, events, and life changes that set us on a path to becoming someone else, or maybe just getting closer to who we are.
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Episode 6 - Family Secrets and the Time to Severe from Family w/ Lisa
How do we overcome our challenges and manifest change? How do we decide the next right step without being held back by fears? Larry Tee is a renown DJ, music producer, and fashion designer and has made a life out of starting over, creative entrepreneurship, and using his own intuition and passion to manifest positivity and change in his career and life. Larry Tee was one of the original Club Kids and arrived on the New York scene with his good friend, Rupaul in the late 80s.
A trophy wife shares her story of discontent and talks about why she decided to leave it all behind and follow her dreams to live abroad. While pursuing her dreams, even at the expense of financial security has been an accomplishment, it's not without its challenges. Ally shares her story about divorce and why she didn't take a penny.
This episode explores the complexities of growing up as a gay Mormon. Sam opens up about the struggles he faced while at Brigham Young University, threats from the community, the possibility of expulsion, and what it was like to graduate as one of the first openly gay students at BYU nearly 20 years ago. We talk about his life since graduation, including recovery from alcohol addiction, his experiences with other "cults" and the spirituality of travel.
Susie Kahlich has always been brassy, even back to her early years in Chicago and punk rock days in 1980s New York. In this episode, we sit down and talk about the impact of sexual assault, the night she was brutally attacked in L.A. and her life’s work teaching self-defense to women. We did this interview before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, before the #metoo campaign went viral. At the time, not even two months ago, it did feel like no one was talking about all the forms of harassment and assaul
I am Kate Leismer, the host of About Face, and though this podcast is not going to be about me, I want to take this first episode to introduce myself, and to tell my story, because I think if you hear a little bit about me, you’ll understand the show better, what I’m investigating, the truths I’m looking to unearth, not only in other people’s stories, but in my own.
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