Today’s show opened with Lawrence Winnerman and I fresh off writing about the CNN “online rape academy” story, and you could feel it. The anger, the grief, the very real sense that something fundamental about safety and trust is being chipped away in ways that don’t feel abstract anymore.
Our stories…
We talked about the instinct to hide behind data—how quickly the conversation shifts to numbers instead of what’s actually happening—and why that, in itself, is part of the problem.
Then our guest Katrina Anne Willis joined us and shifted the energy.
Her new memoir, Hurricane Lessons, is about coming out later in life after a decades-long marriage, and what it takes to finally live as yourself. What stayed with me most wasn’t just her story—it was her pace. Ten years to write the book. And an honesty about not being ready to write about everything, even now.
It was a conversation about timing, identity, and what it actually means to process something before you put it into the world.
Heavy. Honest. Worth it.
Thank you Nick Paro, NeuroDivergent Hodgepodge, Mr. Troy Ford, Le Simple Sudiste, Karen Marie Shelton, and many others for tuning in, and to Karen Marie Shelton and Yanni Hamburger for moderating like champs.
We love you, mean it!
