119 episodes
HOME Podcast Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker
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- Society & Culture
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4.9 • 74 Ratings
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HOME Podcast with Laura McKowen and Holly Whitaker takes up the big questions of life through the lens of addiction recovery. Each week, we explore a new discussion about our hearts, relationships, life, love and the universe at large.
Intro and outro music by Radiation City.
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Episode 119: Maia Szalavitz
This week, the girls talk to Maia Szalavitz; a neuroscience journalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. Maia specializes in covering the intersection between brain and behavior and how social factors like inequality get under the skin. She is the author or co-author of six other books and writes for major publications including the Guardian, TIME, the New York Times, Scientific American Mind, the Washington Post, VICE and Pacific Standard.
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Episode 118: Favorite Thingstagram
The episode where the girls talk about their favorite things right now (books, music, tech, news apps, self-care), but first, talk about the Enneagram and Instagram for an hour.
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Episode 117: Happy-ish-Mostly New Year
Happy New Year! If the best part about 2018 is that it means 2017 is over, that's enough. In this even-longer-than-usual episode, the girls check-in on their love, sobriety, work, and home lives and do a little hoping and wishing for 2018.
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Episode 116: Jeff DeFlavio Returns
In the last episode of 2017, Jeff DeFlavio returns to HOME. Jeff is the founder and CEO of Groups, a company that provides affordable, modernized treatment for opiate use. This episode is a mashup of talk about the opiate epidemic, politics, keeping focus and heart when the battle is so big, and some book reviews (wherein Jeff mistakes Hillbilly Elegy for Dreamland for most of the episode), and more.
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Episode 115: The Hawkins Sisters
Laura and Holly met the Hawkins sisters (Janet and Julie) at a workshop. When they began telling their story, Laura and Holly immediately asked them to come on the show. In this episode, the sisters beautifully and candidly share their family's story of drinking addiction, their individual and overlapping journeys to sobriety, and the complicated mix of feelings that they've each experienced along the way.
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Episode 114: The Let Down Reflex
In this episode, the girls respond to two letters. The first, from a new mom who's worried about how much she's been drinking in the first months of her baby's life while breastfeeding, and the second from a girl grieving the loss of two long friends that don't support her new sobriety. This episode is about the let downs: things we think we "should" be able to do, like choose people we love over alcohol, and the ways our relationships change despite us wishing they wouldn't.
Customer Reviews
Six years later I am still listening to these two
I am so happy to say this is the strongest I have been in my sobriety and these two were by my side at the very beginning of my journey but even now I check in and re listen to episodes because I frankly love them 🖤🖤🖤🖤 still follow both in their work but this was such a time with this podcast - thank you for all you do
So powerful and brilliant. More please!
Absolutely love this podcast. Could listen all day. So refreshing, honest, intelligent.
Consistently incredible
Laura & Holly have built a truly one of a kind podcast that has been a constant companion in my life for a few years. Their conversations are full of honest, vulnerable, relatable words that often have me laughing loud on long solo runs, and the interviews and advice they bring in to episodes is super high quality to anyone struggling with habits or addictions on whatever level. I’ve recommended this to so many girls here in the UK and the raw nature of their discussions sum up the struggles so many of us have, and make us feel less alone and more inspired to keep building our own community. Their work is so important, esp. in our British society where drinking is so normalised yet talking about it and therapy is not the norm at all for a huge number of people in the spectrum. Love these girls and hope they continue for many more years.