About Face

Episode 12- Shedding the Armor w/ Hannah Graves

Tattoos, piercings, punk rock, rockabilly- the look and the subculture can have a hard-shell appearance, but what about those individuals underneath? What is the relationship between subculture and individual identity? Is there a correlation between mental health and extreme tattooing? How do subcultures give us strength and armor, and at what point are we lost to ideology? Is there a false security in our fight for belonging?  This is one woman’s journey--how she found hope, strength and ...

Episode 11- Making Birth Visible w/ Carmen Winant

I want to start at the beginning, with birth. This episode includes my own story about a traumatic birth and my interview with visual artist and writer, Carmen Winant, to talk about her work, My Birth, the powerful installation at the MoMA, the missing and misrepresentations of birth in cultural representations as well as the challenges in the transition into motherhood. In addition to birth, we also talked about feminism in motherhood, and the potential for political action around these spe...

Let Me Be Honest (Hello From Kate)

A short hello and introduction to our next season which will be released every two weeks beginning December 10. 

Episode 10 - Making Amends and Self-Forgiveness w/ Jason Snell (Part 2)

How do we learn to accept ourselves and our past? Jason and I follow up on the destruction that ended in death and loss in a story about recovery and reparations. We talk about how to let go, the gratitude and peace that can be found in survival, how his own recovery made him realize an authentic life. We also talk about forgiving ourselves and our parents and why people who are more sensitive to the world are more likely to become addicts.  Stay connected with us on Twitter @AboutFacePo...

Episode 9 - Back From the Edge of Death w/ Jason Snell (Part 1)

“I was looking at the world and it started to flatten out and I realized, this is what it’s like to die. Everything starts to lose meaning. . . it just becomes a flat image.” - Jason Snell. I interviewed Jason Snell while he was in Europe, in Berlin, on his trips between Paris and Warsaw and Italy, before he heads back to either Iowa or L.A., or somewhere in between, wherever he decides to land for the next weeks or months. As I’m nearing my ninth month of pregnancy, becoming even more fir...

Episode 8 - Julia Kratz - Our Bodies: Addiction, Escape, and Sexuality

Episode 7 - Cedric Till - Beyond the Mask of Toxic Masculinity

Songs used in the episode: "Leaving Naples" & "Just What I Want" from the EP "Seeing Naples" with Sick rat  "Cold Season" from the EP "INFP" with Undogmatic Link to INFP:  https://concretecee.bandcamp.com/album/infp Link to Seeing Naples:  https://sickrat.bandcamp.com/…/sick-rat-cedric-till-seeing-…

Episode 6 - Family Secrets and the Time to Severe from Family w/ Lisa

Family secrets--what are yours? Every family has them. I have some that I can’t put on this podcast, though I really contemplated doing so just to air them, for myself. In the end it just seemed too heavy, too much, too revealing for those involved. But they are right at the tip of my tongue. Part of me thinks that airing them will be liberating, giving voice to my own experiences and my pain, but the other side of me says, no it’s self -indulgent, and too many people would get hurt. Sile...

Episode 5 - Starting Over & Manifesting Change w/ Larry Tee

Episode 4- Giving Up on The "Trophy Wife" Life and Abandoning Wealth w/ Ally

In this episode Kate sits down with a woman she calls Ally. Her guest didn't want to be identified by name or expose others who were involved in this story. This episode is about how she struggled to reconcile feminism and motherhood, personal freedom and security, as well as the "grass is always greener" myths surrounding romantic relationships and singledom. Kate also discusses her own struggle with losing the freedom that comes with detachment and the pressures faced by unmarried women ...

Episode 3- Coming Out as Mormon and Coming Home Abroad w/ Sam Clayton

Episode 2- Surviving a Brutal Assault and Lessons in Defense w/ Susie Kahlich

Susie Kahlich has always been brassy, even back to her early years in Chicago and punk rock days in 1980s New York. In this episode, we sit down and talk about the impact of sexual assault, the night she was brutally attacked in L.A. and her life’s work teaching self-defense to women. We did this interview before the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, before the #metoo campaign went viral. At the time, not even two months ago, it did feel like no one was talking about all the forms of harassm...

Episode 1 - Facing the Self, Recovery and Authenticity w/ Kate Leismer

About Face is a show about turning points, how we show up fo

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