Imagine reading the paper and seeing a horrific story about a dog who died after being shot by the police, and inexplicably feeling that the public was being misled, that the dog was not dead, but alive. A former correctional officer and businessman, Charlie Cifferalli was living in Nebraska when we read the story of Star The Dog getting shot in the head by a New York City police officer while she was trying to protect her unhoused guardian. So what would you do if everyone you contacted said th...
Dec 26, 2023•48 min
Scott Slaughter co-host and producer of The Only One In The Room has a short and casual, yet deep conversation with our guests, The Anxiety Sisters right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there do...
Dec 20, 2023•17 min
Imagine sharing everything with your best friend, and then discovering that the two of you had another common bond, something that appeared to set you apart from your peers - an anxiety disorder. Counselors, mental health advocates, authors and podcasters, Abbe Greenberg and Maggie Sarachek met in college and soon discovered that they were both long-time anxiety sufferers. But what would you do if you’d figured out that the combination of good information and community could equal relief? Would ...
Dec 19, 2023•58 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. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget...
Dec 13, 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...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 5 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 Peter Sage right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget ...
Dec 06, 2023•11 min
Imagine going to court on a civil matter and then finding yourself being sentenced to prison - for contempt of court. Motivational Speaker, Tedx Speaker and best-selling author, Peter Sage, thought he’d be back in time to finish his workday when he went to court in January of 2017, but instead, he was sent to Pentonville, the UK’s most violent prison. So what would you do if you were wrongfully imprisoned and had to say goodbye to your fiancee, your life, and the money you’d just invested in a m...
Dec 05, 2023•54 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 Matt Cox right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget to...
Nov 29, 2023•13 min
Imagine being a conman doing a lengthy prison sentence for a variety of bank fraud charges and finding that instead of the yard or the track, you feel drawn to the library. Matt Cox, former conman and true crime author, spent years in prison writing stories, starting with his own and then going on to write the stories of his fellow inmates. But what would you do if you realized that once you were released the only legal ways you knew how to earn money were now off the table? Would you go back to...
Nov 28, 2023•55 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 Chad Foster right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget...
Nov 22, 2023•15 min
Can you imagine what it’d be like to watch the sunset, or a football game, or even take a picture, knowing that it would be the last time that you could see what was in front of you? Author and inspirational speaker, Chad Foster, was just three years old when he was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that gradually robs you of your eyesight. Twenty years later, he was self-medicating with alcohol, riddled with embarrassment, depression and grief about going blind and thinking that hi...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 1 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 Jennifer Eikenhorst right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don'...
Nov 15, 2023•15 min
Imagine driving home, your daughters in the backseat, and suddenly a flash of light on the driver’s side warns you that there’s a vehicle approaching and you and your girls brace for impact. Jennifer Eikenhorst, teacher, wife, mother of four, and a woman of strong faith was almost home when she’d realized that vehicle she’d collided with was a motorcycle and that somehow, she had caused a devastating accident. So what would you do if the man on the bike died a few days later in the hospital? Wou...
Nov 14, 2023•59 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 Mistress Marley right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't fo...
Nov 08, 2023•10 min
Imagine celebrating your 27th birthday in Tulum, Mexico. A trip financed by your online suitors who obeyed your financial commands and waited only for you to tell them how much money you required. Pro Dominatrix or Findomme, Mistress Marley googled “how to make more money” after getting her degree in fashion design and discovered the world of BDSM. But what would you do if when it came to the psychological kink of controlling someone’s wallet, you realized that you had a very special skill set? ...
Nov 07, 2023•50 min
Laura has selected several of her favorite pages and passages to share from Stash, My Life in Hiding . We hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we do. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget to...
Nov 03, 2023•11 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 Keith Corbin right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forge...
Nov 01, 2023•21 min
While drugs changed hands and bullets flew outside, his grandmother’s kitchen was a haven for him. James Beard nominated chef, Keith Corbin literally grew up in the drug game and ended up working in the kitchen of the maximum security prison where he served seven years as an adult. So what would you do if after serving your time, you were both a skilled cook in a restaurant where you gained valuable experience, and a skilled cocaine cook, where they paid you very well for your time? Would you co...
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 10 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 Emmylou Diaz right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forge...
Oct 25, 2023•12 min
Imagine getting your MFA in acting at Harvard and then moving to Los Angeles only to find that the parts you're auditioning for were either the Chola or the gangbanger? Screenwriter, Emmylou Diaz, whose credits include Jane The Virgin and Charmed, decided to take a writing class one day after realizing that she wasn’t being taken seriously as an actress. But what would you do if you got a job that turned into a new career? A career that gave you the opportunity to write on some of America’s most...
Oct 24, 2023•52 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 Carmen Rita Wong right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't f...
Oct 18, 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...
Oct 17, 2023•57 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 Sofia Rose right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't forget ...
Oct 11, 2023•14 min
Imagine being an actress in an industry where the norm is twenty, white and thin and you are a proud forty-something Latina who identifies as fat. Sofia Rose, critically acclaimed Latina performer, published model, pioneering BBW pornstar became an adult film actress knowing that she’d be fetishized by some and criticized by others. But what would you do if you discovered that by simply being yourself on film, you made it possible for real women, women who looked like you to feel desirable? Woul...
Oct 10, 2023•55 min
Laura Cathcart Robbins is the host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room, and author of the Atria/Simon & Schuster memoir, STASH. She has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. Her recent articles in Huffpo and The Temper on the subjects of race, recovery, and divorce have garnered her worldwide acclaim. Email: cathcartrobbins@gmail.co...
Oct 06, 2023•13 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 Rafael Agustin right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there don't for...
Oct 04, 2023•22 min
What if, even though you’d moved to the US at age six from Ecuador, you grew up thinking you were like every other American boy? Author, screenwriter and CEO, Rafael Agustin modeled his childhood after the Hollywood TV shows he loved, Batman, Saved By The Bell, Friends and more. But what would you do if your parents told you that you were undocumented and the life that you’d been living was actually borrowed and not yours for keeps. Would you feel betrayed and hold a grudge against your parents?...
Oct 03, 2023•58 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 Sean "Seano" McFarland right after the show. Join our Only One In The Room Facebook Group if you'd like to ask a question of any of our upcoming guests for this series. Also visit the website www.theonlyonepod.com for the latest from our host Laura Cathcart Robbins like featured articles and more. We love hearing from you in the comments on iTunes and while you're there d...
Sep 27, 2023•13 min
Imagine being twelve years old when your father leaves your family. And instead of watching him drive away, you give chase, on foot, for four whole miles? For addiction trauma specialist and life coach, Sean “Seano” McFarland, his father’s leaving was the beginning of a series of traumatic events that would shape and change the course of his entire life. But what would you do if when you became a father yourself, and you wanted to give your son what your father couldn’t give to you? Would you al...
Sep 26, 2023•48 min
Laura Cathcart Robbins is the host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room, and author of the forthcoming Atria/Simon & Schuster memoir, STASH (March 7, 2023). She has been active for many years as a speaker and school trustee and is credited for creating The Buckley School’s nationally recognized committee on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. Her recent articles in Huffpo and The Temper on the subjects of race, recovery, and divorce have garnered her worldwide acclaim. She...
Sep 22, 2023•10 min
