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Throwback Thursday: Here Comes the Sun: A Solocast on Death, Grief, and Love
This Throwback Thursday episode releases just one day after winter solstice in the northern hemisphere, the darkest day of the year which also marks the moment when we begin to usher in more light. It’s also just days after the anniversary of my father’s death. What...

Throwback Thursday: Weaving our Ancestral Threads with Genealogist Nicka Smith
I hope you’ve been listening over the past few months to our Throwback Thursday series…episodes I’m curating from the archives for you to listen to again, or for the first time, if they are new to you. This Throwback Thursday, there were so many reasons I decided to...

Throwback Thursday: The Power of Friendship and a 50 Year-Old Book Club with Fran Lieberman and Sandy Klasky
This month, in the Mother’s Quest Community, we’ve been celebrating the power of books. It made me think about this past episode with my mother Fran and her dear friend Sandy Klasky about their then 50 year old book club. This year, the book club will be turning 55...

Throwback Thursday: Reclaiming Ourselves in Motherhood With Graeme Seabrook
“We need these manifestos. We need each other. And we need each other’s stories.” — Graeme Seabrook For Season Seven, I’m excited to introduce our Throwback Thursdays segments! In honor of Mother’s Quest turning 5 (such a great milestone!) we will be...

Here Comes the Sun: A Solocast on Death, Grief, and Love
Welcome back to the Mother’s Quest Podcast. I know it’s been a while– a long while. When my father, David Lieberman, died in December, I put the podcast on pause. And in many ways, it felt like I also put parts of my life on pause. But after months of navigating waves...

Love of Family and Pursuing our Fate with David Lieberman – A Father’s Day Special
This Father’s Day 2021, many of us are re-emerging and with so much change, I find myself wanting to return to words of wisdom that can ground me during this time of transition. Rather than recording a new episode with a father this year, I’m putting together an...

Ep 75: A Call for Kinetic Partnership with While Black’s Darius Hicks
I’m honored to share this special Father’s Day Episode with a devoted father, successful entrepreneur and fellow podcaster who has become a friend, Darius Hicks. Known as “Vince” on the acclaimed While Black Podcast, Darius channels his rage at the injustices Black...

Ep 66: A Love Letter to Friendship with Desiree Lynn Adaway and Pamela Slim
What a joy and honor it was to hold space for reflective conversation with two change-making women who have an epic friendship that has spanned more than three decades, Pamela Slim and Desiree Lynn Adaway. The two met on a hill in Northern California on the first day...

Ep 55: From Grief to Advocacy and a Circle of Mothers with Trayvon Martin’s Mother Sybrina Fulton
I’m honored to bring this special episode of the Mother’s Quest Podcast to you with mother, activist, writer, co-founder of the Trayvon Martin Foundation and an inspiration to so many, Sybrina Fulton. The episode is the last in a series I’ve recorded for the Women...