Podcast Brunch Club

Podcast Brunch Club


Last Day host and Lemonada Media co-founder, Stephanie Wittels Wachs

July 23, 2020

A discussion with Stephanie Wittels Wachs, the host of Last Day and the founder of Lemonada Media. Podcast Brunch Club members worldwide listened to and discussed “17: Trauma (with Dr. Gabor Maté)” from Last Day in June 2020 when the theme of the podcast listening list was Therapy.

Find the full show notes on the web at: https://podcastbrunchclub.com/ last-day-stephanie-wittels-wachs

This is what they talked about:

* Episode of Terrible, Thanks for Asking in which Stephanie and her mother were guests: “Horrible and Wonderful and Figuring it Out”
* Lemonada Media’s shows (as of July 2020)

* Last Day (a show that talks about what’s killing us)
* As Me with Sinead Burke (an interview show with disability advocate, Sinead Burke)
* Good Kids (a parenting podcast)
* In Recovery with Dr. Nzinga Harrison (Dr. Nzinga Harrison, a physician board-certified in psychiatry and addiction medicine, takes questions about all kinds of addiction)
* In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt (a show about COVID-19)
* Mouthpeace with Michael & Pele Bennett
* Tell Me What to Do with Jaime Primak Sullivan (an audio advice column)
* Our America with Julián Castro

* Episodes of Last Day that still resonate with Stephanie:

* “5: Shame City” (first episode with Dr. Nzinga Harrison)
* “7: 20,000 Fewer Funerals” (an episode with Ithaca’s Mayor Svante Myrick and harm-reductionist Hiawatha Collins)
* “10: Surviving is Revolutionary” (episode with Garth Mullins of Crackdown podcast)
* “17: Trauma (with Dr. Gabor Maté)” (episode that we listened to for PBC and was about trauma and addiction)

* Stephanie’s podcast recommendation:

* Believed: an 8-episode series about the stories of survivors of Larry Nassar, the disgraced Olympic gymnastics doctor who sexually abused patients for decades

Follow Stephanie at @wittelsstephanie on