Nicole is a cafeteria worker who is choosing to go into work to make lunches in a district where 61% of students are on free lunch. She has 2 of her own children. They are very flatulent.  Stacy is holding down 2 jobs. One of them is as a manager of Chipotle. She is also recently 5 years sober, AND she just regained custody of her children. Whom she now has to homeschool.  Listen. Share. These are the essential workers on our front lines. Their stories need to be told and soon.  More episodes coming shortly.  <a rel="payment" href="http://patreon.com/lightersidepodcast">Support the show</a> (http://patreon.com/lightersidepodcast)

The Essential Lighter Side: First Responder

It started as a weight loss podcast, which quickly became a mental health podcast, which somehow became a pandemic podcast.  Jay, your host  (anxiety/depression/OCD/childhood trauma/family addiction)  lost 185 lbs after having bariatric surgery.  Guests have ranged from actor Ken Marino to a woman you have never heard of who lost 250 lbs, to a recovering addict, to essential workers during COVID-19. In 2020, the show became daily and ran for 100 episodes in 100 days. The culmination of everything The Lighter Side strove to be, Jay created an oral history of the pandemic, as told through the voices of the people who lived through it. There's something for everyone on the Lighter Side.