BRAVE JOURNEYS with TAMMI FARADAY Tammi Michelle Faraday

For Hollywood royalty, New York Times bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright - Delia Ephron - life has always offered a rich supply of copy. Bad hair, heartache, chocolate pudding – almost anything could be mined for a book, a screenplay, or a newspaper column.


Then when Delia was 72, a time you might reasonably expect the flow of good material to quieten, life delivers her biggest story yet, one she very nearly didn’t survive. 


Diagnosed with the same blood cancer that killed her beloved screenwriter sister Nora, Delia’s chance of survival, particularly because of her advanced age, was slim. But there was a double plot twist: she’d just fallen in love with a man she hadn’t seen for FIFTY FOUR YEARS – & with his love & devotion, she enters remission. 


Delia’s is a miraculous story of late love played out in the shadow of a life-threatening illness, as captured in her superb memoir, Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life, part romantic comedy, part medical drama… & it’s absolutely divine.


So for anyone listening & despairing that love’s perhaps passed you by, you simply can’t afford to miss this gorgeous & inspirational chat with one half of the writers of the classic film - You’ve Got Mail.  Because as enchanting as the Ephron sister’s ROM COMS are, life can be so much more magical than the movies.


BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Delia here
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CREDITS:
 Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
 With thanks to my special guest: Delia Ephron
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson


BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

This is a very unique episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS.

We’ve all heard stories of people who lived broken, crime filled lives, who have an epiphany & completely turn their lives around, harnessing the wisdoms & insights they learnt along the way, to educate & rehabilitate others.  

But what if the person in question is a one-time Nazi whose raison d’etre for more than three decades was to see an entire people  - your people - wiped off the face of the earth?  Let that sink in for just a moment…

For 27 years Jeff Schoep was a member of the  the largest neo-Nazi militant, racist, antisemitic organisation in the United States, the National Socialist Movement, or NSM & for 25 of those years, he was its National leader.  Its repugnant mission was to create an all-white, non-semitic America. 

But after sitting down with victims of hate groups, Jeff walked away from extremism forever.

In March 2019, Jeff publicly denounced Nazism & became the highest profile former white supremacist in America to ever publicly reject far-right extremism & hate ideology. 


This is one episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS, you simply can’t afford to miss!!! 
 BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
 Find out more about Jeff here
 Find Jeff on Facebook here
 Find Jeff on Twitter
 Follow Jeff on Insta
 Find out more about Beyond Barriers here
 Listen to the Beyond Barriers Podcast here
 Find out more about The Simon Wiesenthal Centre here
 Watch Jeff on Red Table Talk here
 Watch Jeff recently speak at the Nobel Peace Centre with Deeya Kahn here
 Watch the Trailer of “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” here
 Find out more about Tam here
 Follow Tam on Insta
 Follow BRAVE JOURNEYS on Insta
 Join the conversation and chat about the episode here
 
NEED MORE INSPIRATION?
 
Find other BRAVE JOURNEYS episodes here
 
CREDITS:

 Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday

 With thanks to my special guest: Jeff Schoep

Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
 
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson
 
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

Have we got an extraordinary guest for you today and to be honest, unless this intro runs for the next hour all by itself, I am going to have to truncate the bio of this remarkable human being. I hope she will forgive me…
Professor Jessica Stern is one of the U.S’s foremost  experts on terrorism.  She served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff, as well as being an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  Jessica has lectured at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, was the Super-terrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security & Law; a Fellow of the World Economic Forum; a Harvard MacArthur Fellow & a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs. 
In 2001, Jessica was included among seven “thinkers” in Time Magazine’s series profiling 100 innovators.  
Today, Jessica is the Research Professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies.  
But while Jessica’s career has indubitably reached stratospheric heights, her success hinges on her atypical post traumatic symptoms. You see, in October 1973, Jessica, then 15 and her sister Sara, aged 14, return from their weekly ballet lessons, when a strange man, armed with a gun enters their step mother’s home, in a safe neighbourhood in Massachusetts. 
Alone in the unlocked house, Jessica and Sara are brutally raped. 
The rapist is never caught & for over thirty years, Jessica denies the pain & the trauma of the assault & focuses on her career, instead of the terror. 
In her extraordinary memoir Denial: A Memoir of Terror - selected by the Washington Post as a best book of the year; Jessica courageously investigates her own unsolved adolescent sexual assault at the hands of a serial rapist, & in doing so, examines the cost of trauma & denial – her own & everyone else’s around her.

Please note that this incredibly powerful & important episode of Brave Journeys talks graphically about sexual abuse & isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can help keep you safe.  And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.

BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Jessica here
Find Jessica on Twitter
Follow Jessica on Facebook
Purchase remarkable Jessica’s Books here 
Find out more about Tam here
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Join the conversation and chat about the episode here
 
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CREDITS:

Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday

With thanks to my special guest: Professor Jessica Stern
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
With very special thanks to George Weinberg & Ursula Ferguson
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After years of struggling in a tumultuous marriage – successful writer & blogger Rebecca Woolf was finally ready to leave her husband, Hal. Two weeks after telling Hal she wanted a divorce, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. Four months later, at the age of forty-four, he died.

With inordinate courage & candour, Rebecca chronicles the months before Hal’s death — & her rebirth after he was gone. 

In her book, All of This – A Memoir of Death & Desire- which is a stunning, provocative & masterfully nuanced read - Rebecca reflects on the end of her marriage & how her husband’s devastating illness finally gave her the space to make peace with his humanity & her own.


Ultimately, Rebecca’s journey is one woman’s story of embracing the complexities of grief without shame — as a mother, a widow, & a sexual being—& emerging on the other side of a relationship with gratitude & relief.
 
BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Rebecca here
Purchase Rebecca’s  masterfully nuanced memoir, “All of This – A Memoir of Death & Desire” here 
Follow Rebecca on Insta here
Follow Rebecca on Facebook here
Follow Rebecca on Twitter here
Find out more about Tam here
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Join the conversation and chat about the episode here
 
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CREDITS:

 Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday

 With thanks to my special guest: Rebecca Woolf

Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso

With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson 
 
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

My next guest Adam Frankel grew up idolising his wonderful father and his father’s father, following in their footsteps to become a successful speechwriter.  After graduating from Princeton University and the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, Adam joined Barack Obama’s fledgling presidential campaign in 2007, helping craft those unforgettable “Yes We Can” speeches.  
But around the same time, when Adam’s career was reaching its zenith, his personal life & sense of identity, was in complete & utter disarray.  At 25, Adam discovers a truth about his family that unravels his entire understanding of who he is.
Adam’s gripping debut book, “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance & Healing”; is a memoir of family, the Holocaust, intergenerational trauma and identity - where Adam comes to terms with the legacy of his family’s painful past and learns who he is in the wake of a life-changing revelation.  

But above all else, Adam’s just one beautiful human being.  I might just have to adopt him as a baby brother.
Just a few things about this special chat… Unfortunately, the audio played up a little, so my conversation with Adam isn’t as clear in parts, as you’re used to.  But please bear with us, because I promise you, it’s worth the listen.
Lastly, this episode of BRAVE JOURNEYS talks about mental illness and suicide and isn’t remotely suitable for little ears.
If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can help keep you safe.  And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.

BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Adam here
Purchase Adam’s remarkable book, “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing” here 
Follow Adam on Insta here
Follow Adam on Facebook here
Follow Adam on Twitter here
Find out more about Tam here
Follow Tam on Insta
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Join the conversation and chat about the episode here
 
NEED MORE INSPIRATION?
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CREDITS:
Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
With thanks to my special guest: Adam Frankel
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
 With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson 
 BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
 

When Hillary Whittington discovers she’s expecting a baby girl, she and her husband, Jeff, are deliriously overjoyed.  Pink & white nursery – check; endless supplies of dresses and bows – check.
Then, only months after Ryland is born, Hillary and Jeff realise something isn’t quite right.  When they call out, Ryland doesn’t respond. 

After consulting with specialists, it’s confirmed that their beautiful baby girl is deaf.
The miracle that is cochlear implants allows Ryland to hear and Hillary’s tireless efforts helps Ryland learn how to speak.  This gorgeous couple believe they’ve overcome their toughest challenge as parents.
But as soon as Ryland learns to talk, Hillary & Jeff know they HAVE to listen… I mean really listen.
 Because as soon as Ryland gains the power of speech, Ryland insists, “I am a boy!” 
 After finding a deeply disturbing statistic that 41% percent of people who identify as transgender attempt to take their own lives before the age of 20, Hillary and Jeff make it their mission to love & support their child — with no strings attached.  
 But please be under no illusion. Loving with no strings attached, isn’t always easy.  Sometimes it’s downright agonizing and can be oh so isolating.  And that’s what is so exquisite about the Whittingtons.  They simply tell it like it is.  I hope you come to love this family as much as I do.
 If anything you hear during this episode is triggering in any way, please reach out to someone who can keep you safe.  And please remember if you’re in Australia, you can phone Lifeline at any time on 13 11 14.

BUT BEFORE YOU GO…
Find out more about Hillary here
 Purchase Hillary’s remarkable memoir, “Raising Ryland, Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached” here 
 Follow Hillary on Insta here
 Follow Hillary on Facebook here
 Follow Hillary on Twitter here

Watch the Whittington Family: Ryland's Story here
Find out more about Tam here
 Follow Tam on Insta
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 Join the conversation and chat about the episode here
 
NEED MORE INSPIRATION?
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CREDITS:

 Creator, Host & Executive Producer: Tammi Faraday
 With thanks to my special guest: Hillary Whittington
Audio Editor: Zoltan Fecso
 With very special thanks to George Weinberg and Ursula Ferguson 
BRAVE JOURNEYS acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we record this podcast on, the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrungwho are part of the Kulin Nation. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past, present and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.