by Betsy Fasbinder | Jun 2, 2021 | Podcasts
Cynthia Lim thought she had the perfect life with her family in Los Angeles. A loving marriage to husband who was a successful attorney, a fulfilling career in education, two teenaged sons. Then in 2003 her husband suffered cardiac arrest that resulted in profound brain injury, changing their lives forever. Married for twenty years at the time, Cynthia doesn’t know how much of her husband’s former self will return. In her memoir, Wherever You Are: A Memoir of Love, Marriage and Brain Injury, Cynthia shares her caregiving journey It’s the story of re-envisioning life with disability and discovering the real truth of love and marriage. Cynthia holds a doctorate in social welfare and is retired from the Los Angeles Unified School District. She is a writer, traveler, quilter and hiker. She is currently working on a second memoir about her family’s immigration history from China.
by Betsy Fasbinder | May 19, 2021 | Podcasts
Daniel Charles is an intuitive animal advocate, an artist, and a lifelong student of nature and a messenger of love and compassion. Life has been his greatest teacher; from his connection with animals to his many travels and relationships with his fellow humans.... 
by Betsy Fasbinder | May 5, 2021 | Podcasts
Anita Gail Jones is a writer, visual artist, and oral tradition storyteller originally from Albany, in southwest Georgia. In response to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election and the long odds on the campaigns for two Georgia senate seats, Anita co-founded “The Peach Corps,” a grassroots organization that focused on voting turnout in the community where she grew up. In tandem with efforts of others throughout Georgia, this resulted in the wild upset elections of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Southwest Georgia is also the setting for her debut novel, Peach Seed Monkey. The manuscript was recently selected as a Top 10 Finalist in the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Anita is also Executive Director of The Gaines-Jones Education Foundation, a small family charity she co-founded with her husband, Robert Roehrick 18 years ago. Gaines-Jones need-based scholarships are awarded to eligible Black students in southwest Georgia and the San Francisco Bay Area where Anita and family live.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Apr 21, 2021 | Podcasts
Diane M. Barnes, M.D. is a writer, actor, speaker and retired radiologist. A graduate of Stanford, and Yale School of Medicine, she trained at UCSF and Stanford, and practiced at Kaiser. After a brain hemorrhage, Diane segued from medicine to performance. Her stroke... 
by Betsy Fasbinder | Apr 7, 2021 | Podcasts
Myriam Martinez has never been one to keep quiet, but she was born into a Peruvian immigrant family that valued “not rocking the boat”. When an uncle molested her when she was eleven, true to form, Myriam told…loudly. The molestation stopped, but the family encouraged her silence and still gathered for events with the perpetrator of her abuse. She became a depressed, self-destructive teen who attempted suicide. It was during hospitalization after her suicide attempt that Myriam discovered what it felt like to be cared about, heard, and to have her voice honored. She later set limits with her family, refusing to be at events with a molesting uncle.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Mar 17, 2021 | Podcasts
Lisa Dailey is an avid traveler and writer. In her time abroad, she unearthed new ways of looking at her life through her discoveries in remote corners of the world, and she continues to enrich her life through travel. Square Up is her first book detailing a seven-month trip around the world with her husband and two teenage sons on the heels of extraordinary loss.
