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As the workforce of funeral directors ages, young folks are stepping up to lead and change the death care industry.
- Added: Apr 17, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Sixteen-year-old Shalvah Lazarus shares her own story and interviews other young female baseball players about the choice they face when they start...
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 09:15
A gender transition means a lot of changes in a person's life — and a lot of changes for their romantic partner. Two couples share their experience...
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 58:23
March 31st marks the 15th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility. TDOV uplifts the contributions of trans folks in the Queer Rights Mov...
Bought by WWNO, WRKF, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 3
American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. A...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 58:23
If you’ve spent some time on TikTok or YouTube recently, you might have stumbled across ASMR content without even knowing it. From long acrylic nai...
- Added: Mar 15, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...
Bought by KRVS, WGUC/ WVXU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WILL, KGOU and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 12
Egg donation in the U.S. is a multibillion dollar industry designed to provide infertile folks with the eggs they need to conceive. But how do we d...
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 58:23
The Brazilian butt lift is one of the fastest growing cosmetic procedures. What is driving the desire for a “perfect peach”?
- Added: Feb 29, 2024
- Length: 58:23
If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
Bought by KWGS
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 1
If you could speak again with a loved one who has passed away, would you? With recent advances in artificially intelligent grief tech, this questio...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 58:23
OCD often goes misdiagnosed and misunderstood … and if left untreated, can impact platonic, intimate and familial relationships in challenging ways.
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Between the ages of 40 and 70, more than half of all people with penises will deal with some form of erectile dysfunction. While that experience ca...
- Added: Jan 10, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Many incarcerated people are also parents. Their children navigate social stigma and barriers to staying in contact with their loved ones.
- Added: Dec 20, 2023
- Length: 58:23
In this digital age of flawless, perfect, poreless skin, dealing with adult acne can be incredibly isolating. Two skinfluencers and a photographer ...
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Third culture kids spend their formative years trotting the globe, moving between different cultures and countries. Two third culture families shar...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and Boise State Public Radio
- Added: Nov 21, 2023
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 2
Complex PTSD describes the existence of long-term trauma. An artist, a therapist, and a researcher seek to unravel the nuances of C-PTSD, while sti...
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Fandoms have got a lot of media attention for their toxicity. But there’s a big flip side — one that describes the mental health and community bene...
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 58:23
Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...
- Added: May 04, 2023
- Length: 39:02
Hospitalist PJ Lally reflects on a time he got a second chance at life.
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 47:19
A day in the life of someone struggling to hold it together through the struggles of dealing with symptoms from ADHD.
- Added: Jan 14, 2023
- Length: 04:00
OutCasting youth broadcaster Declan – a trans guy – talks about experiencing gender from both sides of the fence.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 06:46
Two stories about coexistence.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 51:20
- Purchases: 2
This is the time of year when you see desert millipedes out and about on muggy overcast days. Sometimes even crossing the two lane blacktop roads n...
- Added: Aug 12, 2022
- Length: 04:03