that's what she said Therese Barbato

novelist amy bloom joins us for our love(d) finale: a deep dive into her memoir “in love” - a beautifully rendered portrait of a mid-life romance and their decision, following her husband’s alzheimer's diagnosis, to go to dignitas - an organization based in switzerland that allows people to end their own lives with dignity and peace.

jen nilsson changed her whole life when her fiance Jeff died of cancer in 2018. she quit her job and set off to see the world, writing and traveling and living as if there might not be a tomorrow. a candid conversation about their 296 day love story and how her life has been transformed since jeff’s death.

montana-based mom of 3 ali mullen shares her story: falling in love with her husband john, his struggle with undiagnosed mental illness, losing him to suicide during the darkest days of the pandemic and how she and her children have found light in the days since john’s death.

actor & writer nadia bowers joins us for a deeply candid and generous episode: her intensely close relationship with her sister sasha, losing her to an opioid overdose 7 years ago, and how she has navigated being in relationship with sasha since her death.

the fabulous leslie gray streeter graces episode 4: finding later in life romance with someone she knew since high school, losing scott suddenly just after they had adopted a new baby and putting the whole experience down in ink in her incredible memoir “black widow.”

melissa gould, author of the best-selling memoir “widowish" sits down for a deeply honest conversation about her experience of love & grief: falling in love with her husband joel, losing him to multiple sclerosis 7 years ago and what the aftermath has been like for her and her daughter.