Mandi Benecke and Naomi Marquez welcome Bianca Hughes who lives with genital herpes. We discuss her life from when she was first told she had genital herpes through today. We dive into the stigma behind genital herpes which is similar to any sexually t...

FREE GUIDED MEDITATIONS! Welcome to Meditation Mondays brought to you by Beyond Picket Fences. Today, Holly Kline leads you through a meditation you can use all week to stay calm, focused, and grounded.

Marci French, our very first guest on Episode 02, “Searching For Identity,” joins Mandi Benecke and Naomi Marquez again to discuss diversity, equity, and inclusion. We discuss many current event topics including the recent insurrection/attack on the ca...

Having been diagnosed with lupus in 2004, Cassidy Bowie didn’t have a clue what she was in for.   Her mom has lupus, but you never truly understand until you walk a mile in the shoes of someone with chronic illness.

Naomi Marquez and Mandi Benecke sit down with Michael L Boucher to discuss his new book, More than an ally: A caring solidarity framework for White teachers of African American students gives White teachers a path to move beyond empathy to solidarity w...

Jeanine Underwood is a daughter, sister, aunt, mother, and the wife of a police officer. Jeanine is a committed philanthropist focusing on helping people and helping to bring awareness to alcoholism/addiction and PTSD.

Mandi talks about her experience with health insurance and how she's been denied health insurance, and how there's a population of Americans that are uninsured for reasons many people aren't aware of. She uncovers just one piece of our broken healthcar...

Timoth sits down with Mandi Benecke and Naomi Marquez to tell his story of growing up in a small, rural, Illinois community. Naomi and Mandi ask burning questions to uncover the elephant in the room when it comes to the correlation between religion,

Heather sits down with Naomi Marquez and Mandi Benecke to tell her story of how she became an author of children's books. "If emotions are like the weather, then crying is like the rain." Heather provides amazing insight and tools for mindful parenting...

In this episode, our guest Shidiah Clark tells her story about the affair she had and the unlikely effects of her affair on her marriage.