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City Arts & LecturesShelley SellaShelley Sella is a board-certified OB-GYN who recently retired after decades as an abortion provider. Her book, Beyond Limits: Stories of the Third-Trimester Abortion Care, looks at one of the most highly politicized areas of medicine, upending many common myths about abortion care and the women who seek it. On May 21, 2025, Sella came to KQED studios in San Francisco to talk to Gretchen Sisson, a sociologist and the author of Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption.
2025-06-2930 min
When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of AdopteesEp. 80 Sara Easterly: Co-Author of Adoption Unfiltered & founder of Adoptee Voices Today we have an adoptee who was a guest on episode 50 where we discussed the dangers of calling adoption a blessing. Sara Easterly is an adoptee, essayist, and author of books that include Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies, and award-winning spiritual memoir, Searching for Mom. She is the founder of Adoptee Voices, which supports adoptees in their storytelling. She is also a trained course facilitator with the Neufeld Institute, with special interest in the intersection of attachment, child development, brain science, and adoption.We discuss:Check in on...
2025-03-0236 minWhen They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of AdopteesEp. 71 Gretchen Sisson: Relinquished: The politics of Adoption and the privilege of American MotherhoodToday I have the pleasure of chatting with Dr. Gretchen Sisson about her critically acclaimed book "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood." Gretchen is a sociologist with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, where she studies adoption and abortion. We discuss:-How national crisis create opportunities for adoption -The views of white mothers on relinquishing their biracial children to white adopters-The laws behind kinship care and valuing children staying in their original culture -The definition of tra...
2024-11-021h 22
The Dynamic Leader PodcastEpisode #83 - Interview with Lisa Sisson on leadership & riskIn this episode Shelley speaks with founder and ‘risk rebel’ of Unearth, Lisa Sisson, about how people associate with risk and the need to shift the ‘tick-the-box’ approach so many business leaders take.
Lisa shares her focus on reducing risk through people and teaches us that risk shouldn’t be something we fear but rather an opportunity to “proactively reduce the impact of disaster if and when it should occur”.
Lisa encourages leaders to create a desire for people to want to protect the organisation by engaging them in the risk process and keeping them involved ongoi...
2022-03-0152 min
TEA of Life Podcast92: OQL Part 8 with Shelley SissonWhile quarantined during the Coronavirus shutdown, Shelley also found herself in a similar situation as us and a lot of other people. She too has had to sit back and watch all of her work disappear. Due to this, I wanted to invite her on to have a chat and get her perspective on how she is handling being shut in and unable to get out, make money, and hang out with her friends and family. So, as everyone should know by now, this video is part of a series released in order to get perspective on...
2020-06-1150 min
Your Hope-Filled Perspective with Dr. Michelle Bengtson podcast013 Hope When Our Loved One is Terminally Ill or Requires Hospice CareEpisode Summary: We have all experienced the loss of loved ones, and if you haven’t, you will, because death happens to all of us. If you have ever had a friend or loved one who is terminally ill or referred to hospice care at the end of their life, or wondered about hospice and what they do, then today is the perfect show for you. In this episode, I’m talking with my friend, Shelley Sisson, a retired hospice and palliative care nurse. Shelley shares what hospice care entails, when it is...
2019-07-1228 min
The Ownstream Podcast: New Paradigms For Limitless LivingOS47: Natalie Sisson - Her Journey from Digital Nomad to "Freedomist" & MoreFor Natalie Sisson, doing anything which doesn't feel good for too long sets off an internal alarm. So, some 10 years ago, after too many days of feeling "off" at a corporate job...she quit. What's remarkable about her decision is that she didn't have a solid plan for what to do afterwards, but took the leap anyway. What unfolded from there is truly epic: 70 countries in 7 years, multiple online programs helping other digital nomads, a very popular podcast, her own book and a vast array of experiences that many only dream about. And, as she describes in this week's...
2018-01-1848 minOwnstreamOS47: Natalie Sisson - Her Journey from Digital Nomad to "Freedomist" & MoreTravel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
~ Miriam Beard
For Natalie Sisson, doing anything which doesn’t feel good for too long sets off an internal alarm.
Being out of alignment with what feels good is a signal to change.
So, some 10 years ago, after too many days of feeling “off” at a corporate job…she quit. What’s remarkable about her decision is that she didn’t have a solid plan for what to do a...
2018-01-1848 min