Your inbox is empty, rent is due, and every application feels like it vanishes into space. That’s the reality a lot of teens and young adults are living in the 2026 job market, so we brought back Lawrence C. Harris, a 20-year-old author and youth empowerment speaker from Philadelphia, to talk through what it takes to keep building when the door looks closed. We get real about the “grind” people don’t see: editing content, sending countless cold emails, hearing constant no’s, and getting ghos...
Jul 29
34 min
Someone you call “brother” should be the safest person in the room, not the biggest risk. That’s why this conversation hits so hard: Coco (Floco), a relationship and family coach from Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, tells the story of being 14, home alone, and opening her bedroom door to someone her family trusted completely. What followed was an attempted molestation that only stopped because help happened to be nearby. We unpack what her experience reveals about child sexual abuse prevention and...
Jul 29
22 min
Most people talk about autism. Far fewer can tell you what it actually feels like to walk into a workplace while autistic and wonder if the rules are about to change without warning. We sit down with Sam Mitchell, executive director of Autism Rocks And Rolls, for a raw, practical conversation about fear, literal instructions, and why a job that “looks fine on paper” can become overwhelming the moment reality doesn’t match the written expectations. Sam breaks down the hidden stressors m...
Jul 9
24 min
What would you do if the news you were producing no longer felt like the truth? We sit down with author and activist Susan Burgess Lent, who walked away from broadcast journalism and chose to learn firsthand what conflict and poverty do to people, from post-genocide Rwanda to Darfur and the slums of Nairobi. She doesn’t romanticize humanitarian aid or conflict reporting. She tells the story the way the field teaches it: through risk, relationships, and the realities you can’t “unknow” once yo...
Jul 7
41 min
“Aren’t you glad you’re free?” sounds like a celebration, but for many young men coming home from prison it lands like pressure, confusion, and a thousand urgent questions. We sit down with Tavon J. Partlow Sr. from Maryland, founder of Re-entry Recovery and Beyond, to talk about the real first moments after incarceration and the parts most people never think to ask about. We get honest about the mental and emotional overwhelm of reentry, including how probation and parole can keep you feeli...
Jun 30
36 min
The “windowless van” story is not what puts most teens at risk. The real danger often looks like attention, gifts, flattery, and a private message that slowly turns into a demand. We sit down with Basil Bass, founder of the Association for the Recovery of Children, former CIA operative, and former U.S. Marine Corps captain, to talk plainly about how trafficking recruitment and grooming work in the real world and why common myths can leave families exposed. We break down what predators actual...
Jun 23
49 min
Your body doesn’t “overreact” for no reason, and your habits aren’t random. We’re joined by Patty Cabot, a New York based author whose story cuts through diet culture and goes straight to the root: how childhood sexual abuse can shape weight, boundaries, self-worth, and the way we show up in relationships for decades. Patty shares how she spent more than 20 years gaining and losing 50 to 75 pounds at a time, becoming “great at dieting” while still feeling stuck. The real shift happens when s...
Jun 16
38 min
You can be “high functioning” on the outside and barely surviving on the inside. That’s why this conversation hits so hard: Randy Lee Boslaw, an author, YouTube host, mental health advocate, and former high-level kickboxer, shares what it’s like to fight depression for decades before discovering in her mid-30s that she’s autistic. One sentence from her child set the whole thing in motion, and suddenly a lifetime of confusion, masking, and shame started to make sense. We dig into autism and d...
Jun 9
32 min
Phones didn’t just change how teens communicate, they changed what it feels like to grow up. When a device becomes your social currency, your identity mirror, and your constant audience, pressure stops being an occasional thing and turns into a 24/7 weight you carry everywhere. We talk with Tara Hodgson, a teacher and young adult author from Alberta, Canada, about what she sees in the classroom that many parents never hear: FOMO that gets sharper every time you watch an event you weren’t inv...
Jun 2
34 min
Someone you trust hurts you. You reach for the person who should protect you. Instead, you hear disbelief and blame. That moment can change how you move through the world, and it can take years to name what it stole from you. We sit down with Jojo Campbell, host of No Hard Feelings Kinda, to tell a story that’s painfully common and still rarely spoken out loud: sexual assault followed by family denial, loyalty to the wrong person, and the pressure to “keep the peace” at any cost. Jojo walks ...
May 26
48 min
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