Surviving Matters
21 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHello, my name is Holly Lynch. I'm a two-time cancer survivor. What got me through my darkest days was listening to others share with me their stories of adversity. So to give back, I created this podcast. Welcome to Surviving Matters--a podcast about living!
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Episodes
S2 Episode Ten: Dennis Wall and Corwin Connor
November 11, 2020 17:00 - 18 minutes - 20.9 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Nine: Marjorie Parker
November 04, 2020 17:00 - 27 minutes - 32.1 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Eight: Alex Rojas
October 28, 2020 16:00 - 36 minutes - 41.9 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Seven: Billy Dove and Tom Laughlin
October 21, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 26.4 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Six: Robert Lee
October 14, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes - 25.3 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Five: Mother Liles
October 07, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutes - 26.5 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Four: Greg Kearns
September 30, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutes - 25 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Three: Dr. Laura Price
September 23, 2020 16:00 - 24 minutes - 28.2 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2 Episode Two: Rev. Lindsey Briggs
September 16, 2020 16:00 - 18 minutes - 22.1 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
S2: Episode One: Dr. Chris T. Pernell
September 09, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes - 24.3 MBWelcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and a...
Episode Ten: Tom Allon
May 22, 2019 14:28 - 43 minutes - 49.8 MBTom Allon is the president and publisher of City & State Magazine. We knew his parents had survived the Holocaust and that's why we wanted to talk to him. What we didn't know was that he's also a college-aged cancer survivor. How do you get through that while studying for finals? Tom has some insight.
Episode Nine: Paul and Sibyl
May 14, 2019 15:12 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBPaul and Sibyl wanted to be parents but couldn't bring one to full term. Their struggle to have a child after losing so many pregnancies is inspiring and heartbreaking.
Episode Eight: Gina
May 07, 2019 18:07 - 42 minutes - 48.8 MBGina is an athlete. A few years ago while training for her second Iron Man race, she woke up in the hospital with a TBI.
Episode Seven: Maria
May 01, 2019 17:53 - 19 minutes - 21.8 MBMaria is a part of a larger story about immigration and human rights. Each year workers in the US, those with documentation and those without, send their wages back to their home countries to the annual sum of $56 billion. It’s the largest, most effective foreign aid in human history and it’s all crowd sourced, one individual at a time. Twenty years ago Maria’s family in Bolivia was poor and desperate. So Maria, to quote the musical Hamilton, the oldest and the wittiest, left her five year...
Episode Six: Harriet
April 23, 2019 14:56 - 26 minutes - 30.4 MBHarriet is a co-founder of the DOE Fund's Ready, Willing and Able program. Last year she nearly lost her life but couldn't leave her life's work.
Episode Five: Stephanie
April 16, 2019 20:20 - 45 minutes - 52.1 MBStephanie found out she was pregnant right before college. She tells us how she managed to be a new mother and a freshman.
Episode Four: Shavar Jeffries
April 09, 2019 15:13 - 38 minutes - 43.8 MBShavar Jeffries is an American civil rights attorney and former candidate for mayor of Newark. When he was a young child his mother was stalked and murdered by her husband. Shavar shares with us what it was like to lose his mother and how that shaped the man he is today.
Episode Three: Mavis
April 03, 2019 14:14 - 49 minutes - 56.1 MBMavis was one of the most successful nursing school teachers in New York City. She grew up on the segregated Upper West Side of Manhattan. Now nearly 100 years old, she tells us about her life and career; how she got through it and what we can all learn from it. (Bonus we interviewed her in church and got her to curse!)
Episode Two: Terrance Coffie
March 26, 2019 12:00 - 44 minutes - 51.8 MBTerrance Coffie was raised in foster care and ended up being what he describes as the worst stereotype of a black man at the age of 39. Then after 20 years of being in and out of prison, Mr. Coffie radically changed his life. He now teaches criminal justice at NYU.
Episode One: Mel Wymore
March 26, 2019 12:00 - 28 minutes - 32.9 MBMel Wymore was born a girl and tried her best to be what everyone wanted her to be. Several decades later she discovered that she didn't identify as a woman. Mel tells us about his struggles and triumphs in becoming the gender that suits him.
Surviving Matters: Introduction
March 07, 2019 15:15 - 6 minutes - 7.48 MBHello my name is Holly Lynch. I'm a two time cancer survivor. What got me through all the pain and the fear of cancer was listening to other people talk about how they survived adversity in their lives. So I decided to make a podcast about just that, everyday people talking about their darkest days and their biggest challenges. The only thing that matters is surviving! Thank you for joining us!