People On Paper Podcast

In this episode I interview Victoria about her two birth experiences. Her first was a planned home birth, unmedicated, of a single daughter. Her second was a planned c-section of twins. She talks about the difference in pregnancy, birth, and after birth of these two extremes of birth in today’s society. Did you like this interview but want to know more about this amazing mother? She has a blog! And she’s told me she would be happy to talk with listeners and answer more questions – iamjustanothermother.wordpress.com Check it out! You can listen on on iTunes and all other major podcast streaming outlets.  Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  Big News! I will be taking about a month off from posting interviews and when I come back there will be a new format! I will be focusing on one topic for a month or a few weeks at a time giving us a chance to really delve deeply into one lifestyle or experience and understand it from many different angles and points of view. I’m really excited about this change and can’t wait to get back on the air! What topic would you like to hear covered? What experiences are you curious about? What character are you writing? Let me know! If you aren’t already subscribed now is the time to do that, you don’t want to miss it when I come back!  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes. QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE – Don’t forget to Share Your Favorites!

In this episode I interview Natalie, a woman who escaped controlling and abusive relationship. In her early twenties, soon after moving to the United States she met and married a man. She speaks very candidly about his jealousy, how he isolated her and made her question herself, and how – with the help of a battered women’s shelter – she finally got away from him. Check out the quotes below for a deeper look into this interview. You can listen on on iTunes and all other major podcast streaming outlets.  Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. Who would you like to hear interviewed? What experiences are you curious about? What character are you writing? Let me know! And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes. Are you In an Abusive Relationship? Resources by State on Violence Against Women QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE – Don’t forget to Share Your Favorites!     More Quotes: “Now that I look back, especially at those early days, there were things in that relationship that should have been red flags to me. But because I knew nothing about red flags I didn’t pay much attention to that.” **  “I thought, well, maybe he’s just jealous because he loves me so much. You know, I didn’t think it was a sign of a very controlling person, which is what it is.” ** “With my ex, once we started dating… he wanted me to spend all my free time with him, so he was sort of preventing me from spending any time with my new friends. and again I thought it was because he couldn’t live without me. So I didn’t see it as a red flag, and it is a huge red flag. If anyone is trying to isolate you from your friends and family, this is a bad sign.” ** “If you are with somebody and that somebody is clearly trying to isolate you and is being mean to you all the time nobody would want to be with a person like that. Nobody. That’s the thing with abusive men, it appears that they really love you and care about you.”  ** “So eventually he let me back in, but it wasn’t like – he didn’t say he was sorry or anything. He was actually expecting me to say sorry, because I disagreed with his point of view.”  ** “So at some point in this relationship I actually started to believe that there were a lot of things wrong with me. That I was not a good wife, that I wasn’t a good partner, I was not a good person, I was not attractive, I was not smart. I believed those things.”  ** “It seemed like it was escalating and there was an instance that he slapped me so hard that I fell down on the floor. So when that happened I got scared. And shortly after that he started talking about getting a gun.”  ** “He started his isolation fairly early. So of course when I was married to him and going through all this I had no friends. Nobody knew what I was dealing with. My family didn’t know because I was too embarrassed to tell them because you know, this was supposed to be my successful marriage.”  ** “Right away she started telling me that I needed to leave. And I was very resentful because the thought of leaving scared me for many reasons, one of the being well what do I do? Where do I go if I leave? And the second reason was, well, he’ll find me and he’ll kill me.”  ** “There are certain things that women in abusive relationships need to learn and there are things like, assemble your important documents in one place so if you need to run out of your home you can just grab them and you are going to have them on you, or always keep your car filled with gas so you could take off at any time.” ** “Even though I knew that something horrible was happening to me, somehow I was holding on to the hope that it will get better. This is absolutely irrational but I know now that it’s not unusual at all.” ** “What was good for me who had nobody, nobody, in the U.S. that I could go to, the organizations that help battered women, they have a lot of resources so one of the resources they have is a shelter so if you have no where to go you can call them and ask to come to the shelter. which is basically a place where you can stay for a while, kind of like a hotel, and the location is confidential, so nobody knows the address, you can’t even give the address to the police. So it’s completely confidential. So basically the point is that your abuser won’t be able to find you if you are ever there. So that is what saved me ultimately, because I ended up going to a shelter when I finally got out, and my ex didn’t know where I was. He couldn’t find me.”  ** “At that point I felt like I was ready to just get up and run out and the only reason I didn’t do that was because we had two parakeets and many many times he told me if you ever leave I’m going to kill them. And I believed him, you know, I believed him. So that is also one of the things I talked with the shelter about and they actually had an arrangement with the humane society who would take pets and keep them.”  ** “He was drinking throughout this whole scene, and as he kept drinking he will typically eventually pass out, from being drunk. And that’s what happened. And that really was a life saving situation because I grabbed my stuff, I grabbed my birds, I went to my car and said, ‘hey, I’m ready. I’m ready.'” ** “The battered women organization helped me with a restraining order which I did get, so the judge signed it but yeah, I had to see him in court and I had to listen to his crazy explanation of how I was actually abusive towards him. Which didn’t work, luckily.”  ** “Typically people who are dealing with abuse want to share with somebody but they want to be sure that they’re not going to be judged.”  ** “That’s important to remember, that you actually can get out of this and you can recover from it and you can have a normal life. That’s true.”

  In this episode I interview Kari, a woman who moved from the tiny, all white town of 300 to 400 people where she had lived her whole life to Baltimore. She speaks candidly about her personal experience integrating into a racially diverse city, her fears, how her understanding of white privilege grew, her reaction and the reaction of the city and media to the death of Freddie Gray, and how much she loves Baltimore and the people who live there. You can listen on on iTunes and all other major podcast streaming outlets.  Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. Who would you like to hear interviewed? What experiences are you curious about? What character are you writing? Let me know! And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes.   Quotes From This Episode. Tweet them! Pin them! Share them!  “I just had like a very, probably maybe naive perception of race coming out of high school” “I was aware of my own naïveté, I guess, coming out here because I knew that my little 300/400 people town in Idaho that was all white was not the same thing. So I kind of assumed that coming out here I should just play it cool whatever I do and not act like I’m getting freaked out or bothered by anything. Like I way overcompensated like “I’m cool, I’m cool, Im cool. I can do this. I’m not freaking out at all.” “Oh that’s why racism exists because all the people like the white trashy people that I was afraid of in Idaho who I could identify as scary were now all black.” “It still has to be a conscious switch sometimes to like: No. You’ve got to evaluate each person. Because there are scary people, I’ve had scary things happen, but each person is there own person, and is that person a threat but not, like, that whole group of people a threat.” “I’m poor white and have been for all my life so I’m not in positions of power but when I started seeing that I was getting any kind of advantage for my skin color and that the people with decision making powers were using racism as a factor that is when I started to feel like, ‘oh…'” “I feel probably more protected as a white woman than I would if I was black or hispanic or something else because there’s just this ancient history of over reactions when a white woman is a victim of a crime.” “Since the riots the police have kind of reacted by doing less enforcing and so our murder rate has gone way up. Yeah, because they took it very personally that we were upset about the way [Freddie Gray] was treated and so they were like, ‘fine, if you don’t want us to do our job then we won’t.'” “At no point during that week of curfew and everything did I feel like somebody was going to come after me because I was white. I didn’t feel like it was… I mean it was racial in the sense that the police and the young black of Baltimore have a problem but it wasn’t like everyone who sees my face has a problem.” “There was more confidence on the white citizens of my neighborhood that we would be heard and we wouldn’t have any kind of police reaction and, you know we’d be safe and we’d be heard. Where maybe our other neighbors don’t feel that kind of confidence. I think a lot of the reaction is to lay low and keep your family close and don’t say anything and hope for the best.” “Is it just the tattoo you’re afraid of? Is it just their skin color you’re afraid of? Is it only their braids your afraid of? Is there anything else that’s giving you that fear because I mean, there’s a reason for fear, I’ve had experiences you know, just self preservation stuff, but is it founded in anything? And if it’s not, just talk to them.”

In this episode I interview J.K. Fowler, the founder of Nomadic Press with locations in Oakland, CA and Brooklyn, NY. A look inside a small literary press. Are you curious about how one goes from the idea of creating a small press to actually operating one? Where does the idea come from? How did it progress into what it is today? J.K. Fowler talks about the process from the beginning of a thought that emerged while sitting in the Dubai airport, through the difficult first years, to the sustainable community building organization that it is today. You can listen on on itunes and all other major podcast streaming outlets.  Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes. Want to learn more about Nomadic Press? CLICK HERE to go straight to the Nomadic Press home page. Nomadicpress.org Quotes From This Episode: “The interesting challenge was, you know, who are we in the context of Fruitvale. What is Fruitvale? Who is already here doing good work that we can partner with. What does the community need. What does the community want? So, the want is actually more important than the need.” “It became clear that Nomadic had a place in the community and as long as we’re able to listen and have dialogue that can be a really fruitful relationship.” “When I moved over here to Oakland with Nomadic, it was not intentional, it was not conscious, it was not – there was no plan.” “You know this unintentional thing that has happened is amazing. And I assume it could be planned, right, but there’s something kind of magical about the fact that it wasn’t. And there’s something that makes me feel like it’s more sustainable because it arose out of an organic process where mistakes were made and successes were had, but it was, it’s constantly up and down.” “Bringing together people who different perceptions of future time and what’s possible in the near future and trying to create something that meets all of those is a really interesting and fruitful experience.” “So the process is difficult. You have a pile of stuff and you have to say no to a lot of people. And, you know, we tend to create a theme on the backend of reading through submissions.” “I don’t want to stay on the money thing though because I think while it’s a limitation to a certain extent, especially now in publishing it’s not something that can’t be overcome. You can do a lot with a little bit of money these days in publishing.” “There’s a bit of self sabotage that I think a lot of people encounter and that makes it difficult to reach out sometimes. But once I got over that barrier, bringing in volunteers was key.” “Once it became not just my crazy thing, and it became a non-profit, and organization, and people started to flock to it and it became a thing. It was much easier to work on behalf of the organization.” “The first year especially, that first journal, that was like, that was really really hard. I would get sick after every publication came out. Physically sick. So I’d be out for like a week or two weeks.” “It took a physical toll on me because of all that stuff I just said, you know, the self doubt and self sabotage, but also just, it’s a lot of work and it’s a lot of stress and there’s a lot of people’s work involved and you want it to be perfect.” “The challenge is just to keep going. And balance that with real life stuff, like, bills you have to pay and jobs. Like I still have to work other jobs, so that’s where the teaching comes in. So, it’s just about all that trying to not burn out too often.” “Thinking too broadly is overwhelming for me, personally. And it feels ungrounded and it seems to stifle movement.” “It’s not about the space it’s not about the thing it’s not about the object or anything that comes of it – there’s something in the process of creating, of bringing together, of having dialogue that, it seems to be able to dissolve a lot of issues, a lot of challenges that seem to be plaguing our society.”  

This is part 2 of a 2-part episode. Here is a link to Part One if you missed it.  In this episode I interview Erin, a woman who was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder 20 years ago after 5 years of cycling manic and depressive episodes. I split this episode into two parts because her story was so interesting and full of information that it ran almost two hours. The first half focuses mainly on Mania and the second half, which is posted here, focuses mainly on depression, diagnosis, and living with bipolar disorder long term. What you will find if you scroll down on this page: Quotes from this episode Links to resources on bipolar disorder Where to listen to this show How to engage with me and help share these stories with new listeners! Reasons you will enjoy this show: If you have someone in your family who is diagnosed bipolar 1 and want to understand more about this disorder. If you have concerns about some of your own cycling behavior or that of someone you are close to. If you want to help remove the stigma from mental health disorders If you are fascinated with what the human brain is capable of. If you are writing a character who has bipolar 1 disorder. If you love learning about experiences that are different than your own. You can listen on on itunes Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes. Resources on the topic of Mental Illness and Bipolar:  NAMI The National Alliance on Mental Illness  NAMI on Bipolar Disorder  International Bipolar Foundation Mayo Clinic Bipolar Disorder Homelessness and Mental Illness Quotes From This Episode: “Depression feels like it’s this thing that just takes over and you do not have a choice, it’s just, it’s like a huge black cloud that just descends on you and just floors you.” “I would interact with people but I could barely get any words out, I just couldn’t figure out how to communicate with anybody, I didn’t want to.” “You can’t really reach someone when they’re manic. They’re not open to you telling them that there’s something wrong with them because they think that they’re better then ever. And they think you’re the one with the problem.” “Mania feels like you’re Tinkerbell or something, and being on lithium feels like you’re an elephant.” “Being manic feels like “I’m out of my body, I’m out of my head, I’m like, I’m a spirit or, I’m not even here. So being on lithium really just grounded me.” “You know you’ve got to work with your medication. You can’t just pop a pill and then be like, “yeah! I’m going to go have a wild life.” Because you can break through your medication.” “Too much stimulus and stimulation is not good for me.  So, I actually like to spend a lot of time alone. I work at home.” “I am extremely grateful that I am able to have the life that I have and that I have stability. And that I, like I said, I have access to healthcare and the support of family. I’m lucky.” “My experience in a lot of ways is about suffering. And I have also been the cause of suffering. So anytime you get into suffering, hopefully you can figure out how be compassionate in there.”

This is part 1 of a 2-part episode. In this episode I interview Erin, a woman who was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 disorder 20 years ago after 5 years of cycling manic and depressive episodes. I split this episode into two parts because her story was so interesting and full of information that it ran almost two hours. The first half, which I’ve posted today, focuses mainly on Mania and the second half, which I will post tomorrow, focuses mainly on depression, diagnosis, and living with bipolar disorder long term. For a preview of tomorrow’s half of this episode listen until the end – After I thank you for listening and direct you on how to engage with this topic, I post a preview of the next episode. What you will find if you scroll down on this page: Quotes from this episode Links to resources on bipolar disorder Where to listen to this show How to engage with me and help share these stories with new listeners! Reasons you will enjoy this show: If you have someone in your family who is diagnosed bipolar 1 and want to understand more about this disorder. If you have concerns about some of your own cycling behavior or that of someone you are close to. If you want to help remove the stigma from mental health disorders If you are fascinated with what the human brain is capable of. If you are writing a character who has bipolar 1 disorder. If you love learning about experiences that are different than your own. You can listen on on itunes Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes. Resources on the topic of Mental Illness and Bipolar:  NAMI The National Alliance on Mental Illness  NAMI on Bipolar Disorder  International Bipolar Foundation Mayo Clinic Bipolar Disorder Homelessness and Mental Illness Quotes From This Episode: “To be manic, to be psychotic, to be in that realm. When I was in the realm I felt so good so amazing. I remember thinking all the time, like, I can move mountains.” “I remember, during my first manic episode, I remember thinking that I felt like I was going to spontaneously combust and I don’t think that people can really do that but I felt like I was going to, like I felt like my head was just going to explode.” “I think that there have been cultures that completely embraced the quote unquote crazy person, the person that’s in touch with the gods and I definitely experienced that. In this culture though, it’s not looked upon so well. So in a way that influences how I look upon it too. You know maybe if I was in a different culture I would be like a medicine woman or a shaman woman but in this culture I’m a crazy woman, I’m a psychotic person.” “During the mania and the psychosis I would kind of collect a band of strangers, like random people, that I’d be hanging out with, you know? People that were going to be in my band! And maybe I had, like, moved and suddenly I was hanging out with a bunch of people that, you know, once the mania ends I’m like what, what am I doing, like why am I hanging out with these people; and then I just walk away, basically.” “If you ask me right now would I trade this my life right now where I feel, I feel steady and calm and able to lead a quote unquote normal life, do I want this or do I want to be in touch with the Gods? I honestly want this. I want to be ok.” “Sure it can feel great, for a while, when it’s happening but, you know, it’s not stable, it’s not steady, it’s not, it’s not comfortable. I pretty much always felt like I was not in my body, like, I was just somewhere else. And I do not like the things that happened when I was psychotic and manic.” “I think I picked up on the stigma and the way I navigated it was that I didn’t talk about it. I went to group meetings for a while where I could be bipolar there, I could say “hi I’m bipolar,” um, but as far as in the rest of my life I didn’t talk about it. I was really ashamed.”    

In this episode I interview Sam, a gay father of a newly adopted son. They just signed the paperwork this last week after almost a year of fostering their almost three-year-old son. Sam is a very fun, happy new father who was willing to share all the emotional ups and downs of his and his partner’s process of finding and adopting their son through the foster adopt program in California. You can listen on on itunes Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes.

In this episode I interview Spencer, a set dresser and former production assistant about what it’s like being on the crew for various television shows and commercials. How does one get a job behind the scenes in hollywood? What makes a good day and a bad day on set? What are the day to day tasks of a set dresser and production assistant? Get a glimpse at just how much goes into each and every episode, commercial, trailer that we watch every day. If you are writing a character with access to behind the scenes on a hollywood set, this is a great interview to listen to! You can listen on on itunes Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes.

  In this episode I interview Keegan, a 13 (almost 14) year old young man about what it is like being a teenager. What do teenagers think about? What kinds of relationships are kids his age having and what do they consist of? What is the most important thing in the world to him? What kinds of books does he like and why? We talk about school, pot, “girlfriends”, adults, adventure, family, technology, dreams, and being true to yourself. This was a really fun interview and a very real and honest look at what it is like to be a kid today. If you are an author writing young adult fiction this or a parent who just wants to know what is going on inside a teenage mind, or just someone generally curious about understanding people of all ages, this is the episode for you. You can listen on on itunes Or click on the play button at the top of this post.  And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes.

  In this interview I talk to Laila, a woman of color who is getting her PhD in molecular biology at a large prestigious university. There is a lot of stuff going on in this interview, it is very hard to categorize: Science! (she does an amazing job describing her experiments/daily life as a PhD candidate) Education! (she was not encouraged towards science early on but ran into some amazing mentors later in life) Sexism (Successful women are rare in her field) Racism (Mistaken for the janitor regularly and worse. And why she is against affirmative action / the favoring of minorities in higher education) “All that stuff is just a rotten potato on a plate of awesomeness.” Laila says about these frustrations after explaining how much she loves her life in science. *Some aspects of this interview have been altered/omitted in order to protect the privacy of my guest and her colleagues You can listen on on itunes Or scroll to the bottom of this post to listen! And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes.

In this interview I talk to a woman named Natalie who lives a strict vegan lifestyle. How does someone decide to become vegan? What is involved in a vegan lifestyle as opposed to a vegan diet? How did Natalie’s meat eating family react? What have been the social implications? What does it feel like to watch people consume animal products? What is her favorite vegan meal? Natalie sent me an email after our interview in which she told me that “there are many animal welfare organizations out there. PETA, Compassion Over Killing, Mercy For Animals come to mind. These organizations support and promote animal welfare, but not animal rights. I disagree with their position and therefore do not wish to promote them.” She was also kind enough to provide a list of Vegan Resources which I have posted below! There was a lot of great information in this very fun interview, I hope you enjoy it. You can listen on on itunes Or scroll to the bottom of this post to listen! And don’t forget to leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. And feel free to share this podcast on your blog, but please let people know where to find more: link them back to my site or my People On Paper on iTunes. Vegan Resources Ultimate Vegan Resource Vegan Kit  – everything you need to know about being vegan. Food, clothing, household products and knowledge resources Ethics and Philosophy of Veganism Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach (also all the books under the “Books” tab) The Abolitionist Vegan Society (TAVS)  The Academic Abolitionist Vegan Bite Size Vegan (entertaining and informative) Vegan Recipes Oh She Glows (my absolute favorite vegan chef) Happy Herbivore  Fleur’s Vegan Kitchen  Thug Kitchen  (not PC!!) Happy Healthy Vegan The Vegan Zombie Youtube The Vegan Zombie One Green Planet  The Vegetarian Resource Group has a lot of link to vegan cookbooks and websites Vegan Nutrition Michael Greger, M.D.  VegSource  Vegan Restaurant Guide Happy Cow  (for searching for veg and veg-friendly restaurants in your city) Vegan Clothing and Accessories Vegan Kit Clothing tab  One of the best things to do is search for “vegan” on Amazon, eBay or Google when you are looking for an item. Lots of results will come up.

In this interview I talk to a repossession agent named Lisa. If you have ever wondered what it feels like to jump in someone else’s car and drive away, or have someone come at you with a machete this is the episode for you. Lisa tells us about the first time she repossessed a car (it was hilarious), her craziest repossession, and what she has learned as a repo-woman. She also goes over all the office work involved in the repossession industry, the camera car system (they take millions of pictures of license plates, as well as the car, then mark those pictures with a GPS so that they have a pretty good idea of the day to day life of many cars around the city), where you are likely to be found if your car is up for repossession, and how closely you are being watched if you buy and financed through a pay and go used lot. There was a lot of great information in this very fun interview, I hope you enjoy it. Don’t forget to subscribe on itunes And leave me some stars and some comments! I will read your comments and try to do whatever I can to make my interviews better or keep doing whatever it is you love! Others will also read your comments to decide if they want to listen to my podcast so please share your experience, it is helpful all around. Click below to listen! And feel free to share this podcast on your blog – but please let people know where to find more, link them back to my site or my podcast on iTunes.  

In this interview I talk to a Mortician named Lance. Listen to learn: How someone decides to become a mortician (he has wanted to be one since he was 12) How they use wax to give open casket funerals to those whose bodies have been severely damaged What happens when you donate all your long bones What makes a mortician emotional How a mortician sees people and the human body differently You can have a funeral anywhere – and it can be a celebration What are you paying for when you go into a funeral home  (Answer: a lot) Listen and Subscribe on iTunes : People On Paper iTunes  And if you like this episode – let me know! Don’t forget to leave me comments and reviews and share this episode with your friends! Click below to listen or open in a new window (so that you don’t accidentally close your browser and shut off the show!) And feel free to share this podcast on your blog – but please let people know where to find more, link them back to my site or iTunes. Breakdown of Costs for a funeral

  Hello and welcome to episode number 2 of the People On Paper Podcast! In this interview I talk to Samantha, a Labor and Delivery Nurse Do you have something to add? Tell me about it in the comments section. Listen and subscribe on iTunes or Click below to listen or open in a new window (so that you don’t accidentally close your browser and shut off the show!) And feel free to share this podcast on your blog – but please let people know where to find more, link them back to my site or iTunes!

Hello and welcome to episode number 1 of the People On Paper Podcast! In this interview I talk to Jeremy Yoder, a pastor in the Mennonite Church. In this episode Jeremy talks about The Mennonite and Amish mindset What it is like to be a pastor Family of a Pastor Congregation dynamics The problem of Amish Romance Novels (yes- they are a thing!) His best and worst memories of his time as a pastor Much, Much, More And guess what – there is another way to learn more – Jeremy has a podcast! – look for him on twitter @geekcrossshow – Geekcross Podcast where Faith and Culture Intersect If you listen to the interview and find yourself wanting to know more about Mennonite and Amish culture, pop over to the People On Paper blog where I have a large list of resources – books, websites, etc. for your convenience!  Do you have something to add? Tell me about it in the comments section. Listen and subscribe on iTunes or Click below to listen or open in a new window (so that you don’t accidentally close your browser and shut off the show!) And feel free to share this podcast on your blog – but please let people know where to find more, link them back to my site!