Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Hannah Sward right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: Voyage et Cie: Voyage et Cie's curator Melanie Apple has cultivated a passion for notable moments using the sense of smell. Voyage et Cie is the ultimate luxury blend of travel, fragrance, and design. Each original fragrance is created ...
Jun 14, 2023•13 min
What if you were kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, and grew up to be a stripper and a prostitute? Best-selling author and essayist, Hannah Sward, found herself drinking in drug store bathrooms before therapy sessions, and doing methamphetamines to stay skinny. But what would you do if you realized that you could be the author of your own life story? Would you continue on into an even darker existence? Or would you turn your experience into your greatest asset, and write a book tha...
Jun 13, 2023•51 min•Season 18Ep. 171
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Melissa Gould right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-owned and all of their leggings make makes your booty look amazing. Go to https://cutebooty.com/ today...
Jun 07, 2023•13 min
What if your husband died unexpectedly? Screenwriter, speaker, essayist, and best-selling author, Melissa Gould, was left to raise her thirteen-year-old daughter by herself when her husband, Joel passed away suddenly, after contracting West Nile Virus. So what would you do if, because of your age, you didn’t look like the typical widow, but you were still grieving? Would you stay silent about your loss and try to blend in with the other young moms? Or would you embrace the word widow, and then b...
Jun 06, 2023•49 min•Season 17Ep. 170
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Mike Collins right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-owned and all of their leggings make makes your booty look amazing. Go to https://cutebooty.com/ today!...
May 31, 2023•18 min
Imagine being thirty-seven years sober from drugs and alcohol and thirty-two years sober from sugar. Michael Collins, founder of Sugar Addiction.com and Quit Sugar Summit grew up believing that sugar was love, eating bread, butter and sugar sandwiches and drinking Kool-Aid with three times the amount of sugar. But what would you do if would do if you realized that not only did sugar give you acne and rosacea but it also caused a personality change, similar to drugs and alcohol? Would you give up...
May 30, 2023•53 min•Season 17Ep. 169
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Olivia Allen right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: AirDoctor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Lock this special offer by going to Airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM Notion AI: Notio...
May 24, 2023•18 min
What if your father was killed by the police while sitting in his car? Olivia Allen, podcaster, coach, and therapist was fifteen years old when she got the call that no one ever wants to get. So what would you do if alcoholism had ravaged your family and after your father’s death, it threatened to take you down for good? Would you succumb to your grief and drink yourself to death? Or would break the legacy of alcoholism, get sober and become a mom whose kids have never seen her take a drink? Mor...
May 23, 2023•1 hr•Season 17Ep. 168
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Wayne Altman right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Want to join The Only One In The Room team? Check out our internship position PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-owned and all of their le...
May 17, 2023•19 min
What if you heard a constant noise in your ears, I’m talking, screeching, loud, and all the time? Combat veteran, Entrepreneur, and founder of Melody Clouds, Wayne Altman, suffered substantial hearing loss while serving his country, which resulted in constant and unbearable tinnitus. So what would you do if one day you discovered something that suddenly made the noise stop? Would you keep this revelation all to yourself? Or would you create an app called Melody Clouds and allow others the opport...
May 16, 2023•48 min•Season 17Ep. 167
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Matthew Quick right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: Nutrablast: Just visit amazon.com/nutrablast and use code: OneRoom20 for a 20% discount off your entire amazon order. Notion AI: Notion AI helps you work faster, write better and think bigger, and complete tasks that would normally tak...
May 10, 2023•15 min
What if the novel you wrote went on to become a movie, and not just any movie, one that was nominated for a total of 91 awards and won an Academy Award? Silver Linings Playbook author, Matthew Quick went to the Oscars that year and understood that he was breathing rare air, that he’d achieved something that few other authors would ever achieve. But what would you do if while everything looked amazing on the outside, you were quietly dying on the inside, entering a dark period of your life, where...
May 09, 2023•50 min•Season 17Ep. 166
Last time, we talked about how audiobooks have become one of the nation’s largest bookseller’s most popular formats, accounting for 50% of books that hit number one - isn’t that amazing? I had the pleasure of reading my debut memoir, Stash My Life In Hiding myself for audio. Scott and I want to share some Stash excerpts with you and today you’ll hear a section from Chapter Four, where I wrote about my first-ever experience with Ambien and how it changed my life. But first, a little housekeeping:...
May 05, 2023•12 min
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Brian Lowery right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: Nutrablast: Just visit amazon.com/nutrablast and use code: OneRoom20 for a 20% discount off your entire amazon order. Notion AI: Notion AI helps you work faster, write better and think bigger, and complete tasks that would normally take...
May 03, 2023•14 min
What does it mean to be Black in America? Stanford Professor and author, Brian Lowery was called the N-word while riding his bike, arrested as a teen for sitting in his car, and had the police called on him while on a recruiting visit for one of the nation’s most prestigious universities. So what would you do if some of your peers argued that hardships were hardships and that those events, while unfortunate, could have happened to anyone? Would you take on the emotional labor of educating them o...
May 02, 2023•51 min•Season 17Ep. 165
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Carmen Rita Wong right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: AirDoctor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Lock this special offer by going to Airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM Presenting: ...
Apr 26, 2023•17 min
What if you grew up believing a lie? Author, writer, reporter, and producer, Carmen Rita Wong and her brother, Alex, were born to a Dominican mother and a Chinese father - or she thought. So what would you do if, as your mother lay dying, you found out that she’d been lying to you about your father’s identity? Would you accept your mother’s deathbed confession? Or would you do some real detective work to find out if she was telling the truth? More From Carmen Rita Wong: Visit: www.carmenritawong...
Apr 25, 2023•55 min•Season 17Ep. 164
Did you know that audiobooks have become one of the nation’s largest bookseller’s most popular format, accounting for 50% of books that hit number one? I had the pleasure of reading my debut memoir, Stash My Life In Hiding myself for audio. Apparently this is a job that usually goes to an audiobook narrator or an actor, and now I know why! (It was quite demanding!) Scott and I wanted to share some Stash excerpts with you, but first first, a little housekeeping: This Audio excerpt is courtesy of ...
Apr 21, 2023•9 min
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Ryan Dusick right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: AirDoctor: Head to airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM and, depending on the model, you’ll receive UP TO 39% off or UP TO $300 off! Lock this special offer by going to Airdoctorpro.com and use promo code ONEROOM PATREON SHOUT OUT...
Apr 19, 2023•18 min
What if you were the drummer for Maroon 5, and soon after you became one of the best-known bands in the world, you realized that there was something very wrong, something that impaired your ability to play? Founding member of Maroon 5, author and associate marriage and family therapist, Ryan Dusick, found himself keeping his condition a secret from Adam Levine and the rest of his bandmates. Hoping that he’d never have to reveal to the others what was really going on. But what would you do if one...
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 17Ep. 163
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Lynn Forney right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty Lounge is made right here in the USA, by women and for women. The company is incredible, female, and minority-owned and all of their leggings make makes your booty look amazing. Go to https://cutebooty.com/ today! ...
Apr 12, 2023•17 min
Imagine waking up to find a stranger in your bed stabbing you repeatedly. Dancer, choreographer, actor, director, and writer, Lynn Forney was home from college when a stranger broke into her mother’s house and stabbed her seven times, while telling her, “Don’t worry, I’m a friend of your mothers.” But what would you do if after you’d been hospitalized for sixteen days, it seemed like the police were suspicious, insinuating that there was some way you could have done this to yourself? Would you d...
Apr 11, 2023•51 min•Season 17Ep. 162
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Saket Soni right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: Notion AI: Notion AI helps you work faster, write better and think bigger, and complete tasks that would normally take you hours in just seconds! Try out the incredible power of Notion AI for free when you go to notion.com/oneroom . PATRE...
Apr 05, 2023•23 min
What if a call in the middle of the night from a stranger changed your life forever? Author, activist, and founder and director of Resilience Force, Saket Soni, was in New Orleans working as a community organizer, when he got a call from an Indian man who was being held in a labor camp. So what would you do if you agreed to meet this man, but when you arrived it wasn’t one man, it was ONE HUNDRED men? Would you turn around, daunted by the idea of helping that many people? Or would stay and event...
Apr 04, 2023•57 min•Season 17Ep. 161
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guest Clint Schaff right after the show. Watch Laura's new TEDx Talk: Confessions From The Only One In The Room Special thanks to our sponsors: Nutrafol: Grow thicker, healthier hair AND support our show by going to Nutrafol.com and entering the promo code ONLYONE to save fifteen dollars off your first month’s subscription. PATREON SHOUT OUTS: Thanks to Kathleen Hahn Cute Booty...
Mar 29, 2023•21 min
Imagine you and your wife were trying to get pregnant and doctors told you that because you were both of a “certain age” that IVF was your best option. Clint Schaff, award-winning producer of audio, television, film, and live-event projects, took a cue from his wife and started posting about their fertility journey early on, in an effort to create a supportive community. But what would you do if there were a double standard, if hopeful mothers were showered with help and resources but hopeful da...
Mar 28, 2023•53 min
Fashion stylist, decorator and artist, Laura Romeo is a fan favorite “character” in my debut memoir, Stash My Life in Hiding. Listen to this episode to hear Scott, Laura and I take a trip down memory lane – all the way back to our shared time in rehab, in July of 2008. Instagram: @itstyleme Order your copy of Stash here! Email: cathcartrobbins@gmail.com Website: theonlyonepod.com Instagram: @lauracathcartrobbins TikTok: @mscathcartrobbins Facebook: @Laura Cathcart Robbins Order Stash Watch Laura...
Mar 22, 2023•44 min
In this very special episode we turn the tables with our dear friend and former Only One In The Room guest Dr. Troy Byer from Season 1, Episode 2. Dr. Troy interviews hosts Laura Cathcart Robbins and Scott Slaughter (aka Hon) about how they met and fell in love while in rehab. Order your copy of Stash here! More from Troy Byer: Books by Troy Byer Visit: Mindology Fitness Website: www.Troybyer.com Twitter & Instagram : @Troybyer Email: cathcartrobbins@gmail.com Website: theonlyonepod.com Inst...
Mar 21, 2023•58 min
Scott Slaughter is a producer, photographer and traveler living in Studio City, California with his girlfriend, Laura Cathcart Robbins. He is also the co-host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room and the father of two daughters, Lily and Nora Slaughter. Scott is an avid outdoor-enthusiast and surfer. Having traveled all over the United States and the world in pursuit of these endeavors, he has finally found his home in the City of Angels , where he has lived for the past 11 years. Yo...
Mar 15, 2023•21 min
She’s told her story and now it’s time to hear from him. In this special episode, Laura interviews “Hon” aka, Scott S. 412 aka Scott Slaughter, about his character in her debut memoir, Stash My Life In Hiding. Scott Slaughter is a producer, photographer and traveler living in Studio City, California with his girlfriend, Laura Cathcart Robbins. He is also the co-host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room and the father of two daughters, Lily and Nora Slaughter. Scott is an avid outdoor...
Mar 14, 2023•39 min
