The Last Episode: A Man Who Listened To Women (sometimes)
Five years. 200+ women interviewed by one man. Reflecting on lessons learned.
Jan 09, 2025•37 min
In Her Words
One man commits to really listen to women - one at a time. IN HER WORDS features the life stories of strong women who bounce back. IN HER WORDS - because everyone deserves to be heard. Find us on Instagram and Facebook @InHerWords and @ManListening Hosted by Stuart Watson. Produced by Balto Creative Media in cooperation with the Queen City Podcast Network.
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A voice from another era: Aunt Lucy Jane Saks
My Aunt Lucy Jane Watson of 902 Quintard Avenue in Anniston, AL married Julian Saks, a less well known cousin of the Saks of Saks Fifth Avenue. He closed up his small store and moved to Houston, Texas where they raised my cousin Judith Ann, a brilliant painter, and she married Haskell Rosenthal and they too had one child Brian who is a brilliant guy who graduated Harvard and worked for years for Facebook and now he and his wife have a whole bunch of kids and Judith Ann moved up to New York state...
Jan 02, 2025•32 min
The daughter of “America’s Most Wanted”: Cheyenne
She was 10. Her classmates turned their backs. When reunited with her father briefly in jail, he told her she’d never see her a free woman again. Now a young mother of two boys, she credits her survival to strong relationships with her grandmother, her grandfather, a foster mother and a key advocate. This is the story you rarely hear - of overcoming. Trigger Warning: Cheyenne's story contains a discussion of attempted suicide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Dec 26, 2024•55 min
Marina Zenovich on Story, Narrative, Documentary Filmmaking
Marina Zenovich interviewed ME for her acclaimed HBOMAX Documentary THE WAY DOWN about a Church inspired weight loss program and the tragedies that followed. So I turned the tables and interviewed her to learn a little about how she learned to tell fact based stories on film! This was originally recorded four years ago in Santa Monica. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 3 min
What should she do with his remains?
For our (TA-DAAAAA) 250th continuous weekly episode, an intimate and illuminating conversation with my cousin from Atlanta. She wrestles with how to honor her late husband’s legacy in choosing the right place for his remains. Maybe you can relate… See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 12, 2024•21 min
Amy Bristle On Flirting
When is it safe and fun and even healthy to straight up flirt? How do age and gender and culture change the “rules”? Stuart talks to his friend and colleague Amy about their time together at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, NC and was Stuart decent to this 20-something intern? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 05, 2024•36 min
Emma Claire Cantrell: Rugby Women Listen Better
Emma Claire Cantrell is a superb rugby player who played in college in Wales. We talk about how girls and women listen and play a rough and tumble game differently than their male counterparts. A tutorial in coaching and leadership. Just listen! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 28, 2024•44 min
Rev. Lori Raible: Kindness is required.
Rev. Lori Raible is a great wife and mom and the first woman ever to be named Senior Minister at Selwyn Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC. In a wildly freewheeling conversation we steer clear of theology and just talk about modeling kindness in a popular culture that rewards cruelty. Lori makes me feel HOPE in this age of despair. Take THAT, haters. Thank you Lori!!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Nov 21, 2024•58 min
US Voters Pick White Thug Over Black Woman
Ramona Holloway and I try to process grief and trauma as the men who openly despise Black women gloat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 14, 2024•49 min
Jan: On Abortion, Adoption, and Motherhood
Jan had an abortion. Then she gave up a child for adoption. Then she got clean and sober and had a baby. Then the adopted child returned to her life. An amazing woman speaks from first hand experience about the choices no man can make. (TRIGGER WARNING: I’m adopted and parts of this story trigger ME! So take care of yourself.) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 07, 2024•50 min
Ramona Holloway: Who gets to tell whose story?
As I research my own personal experience as a White child in the Deep South raised in part by Black women, I walk through the storytelling process with my friend Ramona Holloway with an eye on sensitivity and respect, knowing the whole area is a kind of minefield. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 31, 2024•38 min
Maeya Carr: Death is just part of Life
Maeya Carr grew up in a time when family would bring the recently deceased body of a loved one into the home and people would basically have the wake around the body. So she’s comfortable around death as a part of life. I ask her how I can get more comfortable and spiritual sparks fly. You’ll get a lot out of this! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 24, 2024•35 min
Ramona Holloway: Is there a way back? Healing broken relationships
Can families torn apart by extreme, cult-like politics turned bitterly personal find a way to make peace? How can we protect ourselves from hateful abuse and give grace to people we love? What do you when you feel totally alone? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 17, 2024•42 min
Roxanne McDonald on Overdoses, Families, Interventions
Roxanne and Stuart speak from tough personal experiences on the front lines on when and how to intervene in a loved one’s drinking and drugging. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 10, 2024•32 min
Robyn studies the skies
Robyn studies the skies for answers. She has travelled the world and spent years taking courses and doing in-depth reading in the world of astrology. We sit down in Tongva Park in Santa Monica for a discussion of the history and teachings of ancient scientists. Together we marvel at what kind of fate brings us together and how unlikely life is. Lots of twists and turns. Awe inspiring. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 03, 2024•56 min
Kim Matone Empowers Women With Her Own Personal Story
Kim Matone first opened up publicly about her own mental health struggles on this very podcast. Her personal story helped her and many others as she becomes an ambassador for Mental Health America and sound practices in mental wellbeing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
ROSHANDA PRATT: How Ro Shows Up!
Roshanda Pratt believes VISIBILITY doesn’t just happen - but it can be taught. And she’s just the one to teach it! Since our conversation (masked, during COVID) she’s taken off like a big ole ROCKET, teaching courses on LINKEDIN and online helping all kinds of women step into their power and use their real voices to change our world for the better. I worked with Roshanda back in the day at WCNC-TV and I’m proud to call her a friend. Coincidentally she helped me to develop and launch this very po...
Sep 19, 2024•41 min
LeAnne Feliciano: Sacred Wild Woman
LeAnne Feliciano has taken women on shamanic journeys to discover their sacred connections to spirit guides. It’s every bit as wild and mystical as you might expect. When a podcast starts with a prayer to the Universe, we’re in for a wild ride! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 12, 2024•54 min
Allison Andrews' Empowering Journey
I’m tremendously grateful to have worked with Allison Andrews on national award winning investigative reporting in my career in TV news. Then she was my go-to developmental producer who strongly encouraged (bitch slapped) me into starting this podcast almost five YEARS ago! Now she’s encouraging me to strategize and REBOOT this whole “man listening” thing - especially when I get down and just want to either mail it in or quit. She won’t have it. THANK YOU ALLISON!!! This is a repeat episode TBH ...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Susan Andersen Empowers Moms To Finish School
I admire Susan Andersen so much for creating ANSWER Scholarships to send dozens and dozens of young Moms back to college to graduate into higher paying vocations where they can make better use of their talents and earn significantly higher incomes over the course of a career. Often Susan finds a “Halo Effect” in the lives of the next generation of school kids who witness first hand what is possible through hard work and focus on a goal. I have personally donated to this cause and strongly endors...
Aug 29, 2024•50 min
Nancy Amons, WSMV-TV Nashville - The Emmy Silver Circle
My long time friend and colleague Nancy Amons is being inducted into the Silver Circle by the Nashville (Mid-Atlantic) Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), the folks who bring you the EMMYS! Nancy is one of the greatest investigative reporters in the U.S. - not just the South, not just on TV, but in any medium. I admire her and I respect her and I congratulate her on a stellar career serving the people of Tennessee and our nation. Richly deserved! CONGRATS NAN...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Nayla Bitar: Healer, Entrepreneur, Great Human
More than five years ago Nayla came to my 60th birthday party, an intimate dinner prepared by my favorite chef, my lovely wife. I didn’t know her story. But no sooner than I pulled up a chair and began listening, I was inspired by the grit and work ethic of this lovely woman. Not to mention her HUGE heart ! Nayla and her husband Dr. Carlos Rish own and operate Centro Medico Latino here in Charlotte, NC and along with their staff serve well over 50,000 patients, most of them immigrants. That’s wh...
Aug 15, 2024•37 min
Kathleen Defends Democracy (as a "Big J" Journalist)
Kathleen Johnston is a world class investigative journalist who has worked for CNN and CBS. In this season of her life she acts as teacher, mentor, coach and example of what is right and noble about the calling of journalism at Indiana University. I’m proud to call her not just a colleague but a friend. Note this episode was recorded some five years ago in 2019 in Houston TX so before COVID and before the 2020 election and the subsequent attacks undermining democratic values in the US and around...
Aug 08, 2024•34 min
How Lauren Russell Launched a US Made Furniture Line That Has THRIVED
Lauren Strassner Russell is my FRICKIN HERO. She ain’t no “girl boss.” She is a BOSS WOMAN. The woman launched a US MADE Furniture company that did not just survive The Great Recession AND Covid and the ensuing economic woes. She. Has. THRIVED. Want to know her secrets? Mystical Manifesting, Synchronicity (Timing) plus a grinding work ethic that starts at 4AM and rarely takes a day off. Thank God she took time to talk to me. You will be the beneficiary. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
Aug 01, 2024•54 min
Lynn Murray Chavarria Grows Christmas Trees (and Hunts the Occasional Wild Boar)
As Fate (God? The Universe? Blind Luck?) would have it, I was destined to meet Lynn Murray Chavarria who just happened to hitch a ride with her old friend Mike Waterman when he picked me up at the Sanford/Orlando Airport on Saturday. Turns out she has quite the stories of her dad Bill Murray and how he developed an entire Christmas Tree Industry in the Deep South. So I hit the red RECORD button on my iPhone and YOU dear listener are the beneficiary of all the generations of lore from this amazin...
Jul 25, 2024•43 min
Nancy Haynes & Ramona Holloway
My friends Nancy Haynes and Ramona Holloway have each forgotten more about media than I will ever know. Especially radio (like podcasting with less latitude). So we present for your listening pleasure a couple of free wheeling unedited conversations! Enjoy! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 18, 2024•34 min
Ethel wrote her hero. Her hero wrote back.
Ethel Smith wrote her hero, back when lovers of Language put pen to paper and did such things. To this day whole generations appreciate a hand written note. Maybe it’s more real, a tactile demonstration of a love for the written word. Wonder of wonders, her hero wrote back! Changed her life. Just listen. (Recorded in Birmingham, Alabama in December of 2020 in the midst of COVID) RERUN OF EP. 50 NOW 180 EPISODES LATER See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Jul 11, 2024•55 min
Hope stands for “Hold On Pain Ends” (Revisited)
Hope Aldred is no less than an angel for families in recovery from addiction of all kinds. She gleaned her compassion from hard won experience with her own husband and having to explain to their two sons why Dad was dying. For her and those young men, it’s been quite the journey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 04, 2024•1 hr 13 min
Lucy Loves Life
The first conversation I taped for this podcast was one of the most difficult. My friend Lucy Lustig was dying and she knew it. She was lying in a hospital bed in her living room and reflecting on a life filled with art and rich friendships and second chances. I honor her courage and creativity in the face of her own imminent death. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 27, 2024•36 min
I own it.
I’m talking ABOUT a woman this week: the woman whose car I plowed into on Friday afternoon. I would have been angry. She asked if I was OK. A study in grace and compassion - all hers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 20, 2024•14 min
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