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The Empty Arms Podcast -- real stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss.Ep. 041 - Co-Authors Speak: NICU loss and how to journey through it.In this episode of The Empty Arms Podcast, I sit down with Emily Souder, LCSW-C, PMH-C and Mahaley Patel, LMFT, PMH-C, co-creators of Your NICU Story, a powerful journal to help families process their NICU stay. Together, we explore the power of storytelling in grief, the importance of naming experiences that often feel unspeakable, and how words can become a lifeline for families navigating loss. Mahaley shares the story of her daughter, who died in the NICU, and the profound heartbreak of loving a child in a space filled with machines, uncertainty, hope, and fear. We talk ab...
2025-12-161h 02
Ask a NICU Mama PodcastI Believe in Her with MahaleyIn this episode of the Ask a NICU Mama Podcast, host Ashley O’Neil is joined by Mahaley Patel, who shares her journey through pregnancy, the traumatic birth of her daughter Saachi, and the challenges faced during their NICU stay. She discusses the emotional complexities of child loss, the importance of processing trauma, and how she found purpose in her grief. Mahaley also highlights the significance of support systems for NICU families and the unique perspectives of partners during such experiences. This conversation culminates in a discussion about her book, 'Your NICU Story', aimed at helping families navigate their NI...
2025-12-0242 min
Beyond The Birth StoryEpisode 43 | Navigating Grief and Resilience with Mahaley PatelIn this heartfelt episode of "Beyond the Birth Story," Mahaley Patel, a licensed marriage and family therapist, shares her deeply personal journey through perinatal mental health, trauma, and the profound experience of losing a child. Mahaley opens up about her path to healing, the challenges of parenting after loss, surrogacy and the inspiration behind her book designed to help others navigate their NICU experiences. Join us for an intimate conversation about resilience, love, and the enduring bonds of family.Key Takeaways:The importance of acknowledging and processing grief in a healthy way. How personal experiences can s...
2025-11-131h 02
Play In Faith11. Shanna Zolman MahaleyShe graduated as the leading high school scorer in the state of Indiana before heading to the University of Tennessee to play for the legendary Pat Summit. She went on to play five years in the WNBA and capped off one of the most legendary careers in Indiana girls basketball history. Curious HOW she got…
2025-11-0840 minPlay In Faith11. Shanna Zolman MahaleyShe graduated as the leading high school scorer in the state of Indiana before heading to the University of Tennessee to play for the legendary Pat Summit. She went on to play five years in the WNBA and capped off one of the most legendary careers in Indiana girls basketball history. Curious HOW she got…
2025-11-0840 min
The NICU Translated Podcast7. Finding Light After Loss: Mahaley Patel on Creating Your NICU StoryThe NICU journey is full of emotions — joy, grief, gratitude, trauma, and everything in between. For some families, those emotions continue long after discharge, especially when facing loss or long-term medical complexities.In this episode, I’m joined by Mahaley Patel, LMFT, PMH-C — a therapist specializing in perinatal mental health, grief, trauma, and infant/child loss, and the co-author of Your NICU Story. Mahaley shares her perspective as both a clinician and a bereaved parent, and offers families and professionals tools for processing their NICU experience in ways that honor both the heartbreak and the hope....
2025-10-2259 min
NICU Alumni PodcastYour NICU Story: A Guide for Reflecting on Your Family’s ExperienceIn this episode of the NICU Alumni Podcast, host Andrea Hickson is joined by co-authors Emily Souder and Mahaley Patel to talk about the lasting impact of NICU experiences on families.Together, they reflect on grief, healing, and how storywork can help parents process these experiences and emotions. The conversation highlights the duality of grief and gratitude, the importance of community support, and the creation of Your NICU Story Book, a meaningful resource for families navigating life after the NICU, available now.More information and links to the resources...
2025-09-3042 min
The Motherwhelm43 Emily | Motherhood | perinatal therapist, author, Your NICU Story, neurodivergence, chronic illness, Hashimoto's disease, surrender, acceptance, homeschooling, rejecting societal expectationsIn the forty-third episode of The Motherwhelm, I am joined by Emily, a mother of two, perinatal therapist, and coauthor of the upcoming guided reflective journal 'Your NICU Story.' In this conversation, Emily shares her personal and professional experiences with motherhood, chronic illness, and neurodivergence, offering a deeply honest look at what it means to care for yourself while caring for others. It’s a grounding and insightful discussion that I'm sure will resonate with so many listeners.Texts mentioned in this episodePodcasts:Mom and Mind wi...
2025-09-071h 04The Motherwhelm42 Mahaley | Motherhood | Infant loss, NICU experience, Your NICU Story, birth after loss, surrogacy, grief, perinatal therapistIn the forty-second episode of The Motherwhelm, I am joined by Mahaley, therapist, co-author of 'Your NICU Story', and mother of four. She shares the loss of her second daughter, Sacchi, and talks about how it shaped her subsequent birth and surrogacy journey, and what it means to parent while living with grief and fear.We talk about the ongoing balance of honouring loss without letting it overshadow the lives of her living children - and how she works to give them a full, joyful childhood while carrying such profound grief.Texts mentioned in this...
2025-08-3158 minThe Motherwhelm40 Emily & Mahaley | Special | Your NICU Story, guided reflection journal, NICU, infant loss, grief, perinatal mental health professionalsIn this special episode of The Motherwhelm, I am joined by Emily Souder and Mahaley Patel - therapists, authors, and mothers - who have both lived and worked through the complexities of NICU experiences in deeply personal ways.Their upcoming book, 'Your NICU Story: Reflecting on Your Family's Experience', is more than a guide - it's a compassionate companion for families navigating the aftermath of a NICU stay. In this episode, we explore the emotional layers of NICU trauma, grief, healing, and what it means to hold space for conflicting emotions like gratitude and heartbreak...
2025-08-2058 min
A Fresh StoryFresh Reads: Your NICU Story: Reflecting on Your Family's Experience by Mahaley Patel & Emily Souder – a conversation with Ravi Patel & Mahaley PatelSome books arrive in the world because their authors have always dreamed of writing them. Others are born from heartbreak, stitched together from the pieces of a life forever altered. Your NICU Story is the latter — a tender, practical, and deeply human guide born from Ravi and Mahaley Patel’s experience of loving and losing their daughter, Saachi, after a birth injury and a NICU stay. What began as unimaginable grief became a mission: to help other parents navigate the uniquely disorienting, exhausting, and often traumatic world of the NICU — whether their child came home or not.Co-wri...
2025-08-1725 min
Finding Hope After Loss | Hope in Infertility and Pregnancy LossWriting to Heal: NICU Trauma and Grief After Infant LossLicensed therapists Mahaley Patel and Emily Souder share their personal and professional insights on NICU trauma, infant loss, and healing through writing and storytelling. Learn about their upcoming book Your NICU Story and how it helps families process grief and trauma after the NICU experience.
2025-08-0635 min
Guys and GriefActor Ravi Patel and Author/Therapist Mahaley PatelHey Guys! We are so excited and honored to present our latest episode with guests Ravi Patel and Mahaley Patel. Ravi is a well known actor who has starred in hit shows like Grandfathered and currently stars in Animal Control on Fox. His wife Mahaley also joins the show. She is author of "Your NICU Story: Reflecting on Family's Experience" and "Saachi the Angel". She is a licensed marriage and family therapistRavi and Mahaley share the story of their daughter, Saachi.We dive into the following topics:- Their journey into parenthood
2025-07-091h 18
Losing a Child: Always Andy's MomEpisode 302: Emily & Mahaley (Saachi's Mom)Storytelling. It's my very favorite thing about doing the podcast each week. When I meet each guest, I am privileged to help people share their child's story with people around the world. I have come to learn over the past 300-plus episodes that this storytelling helps lead to healing for both the guests sharing their stories and the listeners who tune in each week. Emily learned about the power of storytelling years ago while writing her book, Birth Story Brave. As a perinatal mental health specialist, she recognized the importance for women to be able to work...
2025-06-2659 min
Who Is In My GenesAley Mahaley from AppalachiaIn this episode we discuss the family of Aley Mahaley Viola May Hester Huff, who was born and raised in the outer Appalachians at the turn of the 20th century.
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2025-05-0120 min
The IHSAA InsiderThe IHSAA Insider - Celebrating 50 Years of Girls High School Basketball - Shanna Zolman MahaleyIn today's episode, Jane speaks with Shanna Zolman Mahaley of Wawasee High School!Celebrating 50 years of Indiana High School Girls Basketball at the IHSAA. We will talk with players, coaches and officials, who have impacted the evolution of the game in our state. In 49 other states, it's just basketball. But this is Indiana High School Girls Basketball. Sit back and enjoy reminiscing with the legends of Indiana.
2025-01-3019 min
Teaching with TechEducational Technology in the Arts (Part 2)This episode continues our conversation of innovative ways that educational technology is being used in the Arts. Last week focused specifically on Music, and this week we want to expand our scope a bit. We will be hearing about computer science in a music tech class with Tessa McArthur, who teaches at Woodland Jr. Sr. High School in Baileyville, but then we will move to Theatre with Mahaley Lozano, former ELA teacher and drama coach at Princeton Elementary School. And we will close today’s episode with Matthew Peinado, who teaches Art Teacher at Edward Little High School.
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2023-10-3135 min
Changing the Business of GolfEpisode 6 | Mahaley Nemtuda: From Troubled Teen to Turf TrailblazerMahaley Nemtuda has turned her life around.
From a troubled upbringing in which she left home early, faced expulsion from school and became a mother at a young age, she is now forging a career as a trailblazing turf professional.
The assistant superintendent from Mansfield, Ohio is juggling life, work and studies but wouldn’t have it any other way, as she puts it “you can only be as successful as you are dedicated.”
In a wide-ranging conversation, Mahaley describes a chance encounter with host Gary Firkins at a networking event during this year’s GCSAA Trade Show & Conference in which sh...
2023-07-3124 min
Podcast by Little Honey MoneyMinding Our Mental Health with Mahaley PatelMahaley Patel, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, joins Erica and Jhoanna to discuss how new and expectant mothers are taking care of their mental health today. Mahaley also gives a candid look at how other forms of maternal care services contribute to a new mom’s mental and emotional well-being. Follow us on instagram @littlehoneymoney and visit our website for our mother & baby registry—a modern baby registry intentionally designed for the mother.
2023-01-1948 min
The Fashion Collective PodcastThe Jack Mahaley (STUSSY) InterviewThis week I talk to Jack Mahaley! In the episode, we talk about how he got into fashion, NYC vs LA style, joining Stüssy, the designing pieces for the Our Legacy collab, cooking, his independent collaboration with Jam and much more!
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2022-11-1746 min
Working with Gen ZGen Z and Technology: Is it love at first sight?In this episode – learning and technopreneur expert Steve Mahaley explores myths, opportunities and realities of creating learning experiences with new technologies (especially for Gen Z’s).He explains some of the next generation learning tools – but cautions companies, managers and bosses – while the technology itself will continue to change – Gen Z’s own expectation of technology and learning is very contextual. It is not about bringing the “shiny object” but meeting them where they are.Learn more about this delicate balance of tech and learning with Gen Z’s in this exciting episodeFind Us Online
2022-04-0136 min
The Dr. Phil Podcast2 Years Later: Have Views On Black Lives Changed?Dr. Phil devotes his platform to analyzing how life has changed for Black Americans in the almost two years since the tragic deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, and the subsequent widespread Black Lives Matter protests demanding racial equality. Dr. Phil meets professor Dr. Shaun Harper from USC, who says that while he remains an optimist, he claims to have not seen nearly enough effective change in society to start the process of creating equality and justice between Black and white Americans. Former BLM activist Rashad Turner says he quit the movement because, according to him...
2022-03-0131 min
The Leadership Enigma024: The 7 Myths of Racial Equity | Dr Randal Pinkett & Steve MahaleyIn a world that is increasingly polarised, a culture of inclusivity is essential. This episode focuses on the 7 Myths of Racial Equity with Dr Randal Pinkett and Steve Mahaley. Leadership comes from all levels of an organisation and individually we must move from 'bystander to upstander'.Watch & Subscribe: 👀 https://www.youtube.com/@theleadersenigma/videosListen & Subscribe: 🎙️ https://open.spotify.com/show/5NSnRyHzPmyY5OWhGzKU5Pwww.leadersenigma.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm...
2020-11-0749 min
Mama Said with Jamie-Lynn Sigler & Jenna ParrisRavi and Mahaley Patel’s Pursuit of HappinessActor, Documentarian, and Comedian Ravi Patel and actress Mahaley Patel are here to discuss his new HBO Max Docu-Series, “Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness.” Hear interesting and challenging ways other cultures and countries approach family life, parenting, childcare, and how unique social scenarios create unique upbringings. See all 4 episodes of the series August 27th on HBO Max.
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2020-08-2659 min
EmotionAL Support with Alessandra TorresaniMahaley and Ravi PatelOur first couple comes to visit me in the clubhouse and I must say, it is an absolute treat!!! They are actors, producers, aspiring “influencers”, and mental health activists. What don’t they do! You can catch Ravi’s new shows The Pursuit of Happiness with Ravi Patel on HBO Max, Messy on Netflix and the much anticipated Wonder Woman coming soon! And for some tips and tricks follow Mahaley Patel, who tells us all about being a certified pediatric sleep consultant and marriage & family therapist train
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2020-06-3053 min
Society TalksRavi Patel - InterviewActor/Director, Ravi Patel, from upcoming "Wonder Woman 1984" starring Gal Gadot, joins us on Society Talks. Known for his acting in "Transformers", for directing the award-winning film "Meet the Patels", and acting in "Master of None." Originally, Ravi Patel was born on December 18, 1978 in Freeport, Illinois, USA. He has been married to Mahaley Patel since November 8, 2015. They have one child. Ravi has had a long career full of success! We welcome him here at Society Talks for an amazing conversation.
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2020-06-0747 min
One and One PodcastShanna Zolman MahaleyIn the very first episode, Shanna Zolman Mahaley chats with Bridget B. about growing up in Indiana where basketball is a way of life, her time at the University of Tennessee playing for Pat Summitt, her WNBA career, her passion for ministry, and her 2 podcasts of her own!
2019-05-211h 09
EduTechGuys - Conference CoverageFETC 2019 - David MahaleyUsing Adobe Captivate to develop new, fresh professional development for teachers.
2019-01-3112 min
Now Is the Time for MissionsNIT 074 - San Pedro Las Huertas - Stove Crew 4 & Donations Crew - [Podcast]To listen to this episode, click on the player above. Click anywhere in black to skip forward or back.Shawn Smith. Director of NIT Missions, interviews members of Stove Crew 4 & Donations Crew from Week 1 in San Pedro Las Huertas from June 24 - July 1 2018.San Pedro Las Huertas Stove Crew 4 is:Michael Berens-VanHeestKristine ButcherLandon ButcherHeather HeumanMahaley HeumanSan Pedro Las Huertas Donations Crew is:Nancy PeabodyJudy HigaJendy NiceTo have new episodes of our podcast automatically...
2018-06-2834 min