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Women of Color in Business (WOCIB) - A Top Podcast for Black Women Entrepreneurs w/Radical Self-LoveA Disrupter for Trauma in Our Entrepreneur Journey with Susan MandrewWith delight I introduce you to Susan E. Mandrew. Susan is a body-based trauma, grief, and resilience coach. She is a trained movement practitioner, Mind/Body educator, inspired facilitator and valued change strategist. She helps people break free from intergenerational cycles of trauma, emotional pain and negative self-talk. Susan has been on the frontline, providing mission-critical support and guidance to healthcare workers' management teams through mergers/acquisitions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Through these complex experiences, Susan taught somatic practices to healthcare providers and patients with a focus on stress relief exercises...2025-03-311h 41
Honoring the JourneyChoosing Love: Honoring the Journey of Susan CottrellIn this heartfelt episode, Susan Cottrell, Co-Host of Freedhearts Podcast, shares her personal journey of prioritizing love and acceptance over traditional evangelical beliefs upon her child's coming out as LGBTQ. Susan discuss the challenges faced within the church, the need for adults and children to learn anti-bullying behavior, and the courage it requires to step away from judgmental ideologies. This narrative emphasizes embracing a God much larger than religious confines, valuing authentic relationships, and the dynamic nature of faith and understanding. It encourages viewers to love openly, challenge doctrinal constraints, and see God's love beyond institutional walls....2024-10-1458 min
FreedHeartsHealing with the Arts!With all this talk about the teaching of contempt and religion, we thought it was time for a little relief: a little ART relief!When I had cancer five years ago, part of the available treatment was a studio program where we created art. They kept saying, “It’s about the process, not the product.” I can hardly even express the joy this has opened up in me.I was amazed to learn that people who participate in the arts – art, music, dance, whatever it is for you – lower thei...2024-08-2835 min
The Heartful Parent PodcastEp 72 | Embracing LGBTQIA+ Acceptance through Faith, Love, and Radical Inclusivity with Susan CottrellWhether you are the parent of an LGBTQIA+ kiddo or you don’t know yet whether or not you are the parent of an LGBTQIA+ kiddo, or you have an LGBTQIA+ family member, neighbor, friend, or colleague you’re going to want to tune into today’s episode. I’m talking with Susan Cottrell. Susan is an international speaker and passionate advocate for the LGBTQIA+ community. Susan shares her personal journey of accepting and supporting her LGBTQ children, despite the conservative teachings of her evangelical church. She discusses how her deep faith led her to deconstruct harmful religious...2024-06-2549 min
The Desert Sanctuary340 – Susan and Rob Cottrell – Upstander or Bystander
SUSAN COTTRELL is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.6 million views. OutSmart magazine called her “The Mother of All MamaBears.” The Advocate dubbed her “our favorite affirming matriarch.” She is a prominent voice for the LGBTQ community and their faith parents who has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, on NBC News Out, and as a contributor on the Our Bible app. She is a public theologian and through her nonprofit organization—FreedHearts—Susan expresses her authentic love for the LGBTQ+ community and families; and she sees love as the healing foundation of family, faith, and commun...2024-06-231h 11The Desert Sanctuary340 – Susan and Rob Cottrell – Upstander or Bystander
SUSAN COTTRELL is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.6 million views. OutSmart magazine called her “The Mother of All MamaBears.” The Advocate dubbed her “our favorite affirming matriarch.” She is a prominent voice for the LGBTQ community and their faith parents who has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, on NBC News Out, and as a contributor on the Our Bible app. She is a public theologian and through her nonprofit organization—FreedHearts—Susan expresses her authentic love for the LGBTQ+ community and families; and she sees love as the healing foundation of family, faith, and commun...2024-06-231h 11
Lesbi-Honest: Candid Convos With Later-in-Life LesbiansNo, The LGBTQIA+ Community Isn’t Going to Burn in Hell For Eternity (or at all, for that matter)(with Susan Cottrell)💡 Speaker biosSusan Cottrell and her husband were deeply involved in the evangelical church for 20 years, finding a sense of community and family within it. However, their perspective changed when two of their five children came out as queer. This prompted a re-examination of their beliefs, as one of their children expressed that they had tried to resist their identity but ultimately realized they could not deny who they were. This experience led Susan to become an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community within religious spaces, and she has since dedicated herself to supporting and affirming queer individuals wit...2024-03-2035 min
The Desert Sanctuary310 – Susan Cottrell – How to Speak Women
Susan Cottrell is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.6 million views. OutSmart magazine called her “The Mother of All MamaBears.” The Advocate dubbed her “our favorite affirming matriarch.” She is a prominent voice for the LGBTQ community and their faith parents who has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, on NBC News Out
This podcast is part of the Leaning Forward Conference recordings from December 9th, 2023. To access the videos and other helpful reference material, use the following link: What Women Know About Trauma.
2024-02-1933 minThe Desert Sanctuary310 – Susan Cottrell – How to Speak Women
Susan Cottrell is an international speaker whose TEDx talk has 1.6 million views. OutSmart magazine called her “The Mother of All MamaBears.” The Advocate dubbed her “our favorite affirming matriarch.” She is a prominent voice for the LGBTQ community and their faith parents who has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, Nightline and Good Morning America, on NBC News Out
This podcast is part of the Leaning Forward Conference recordings from December 9th, 2023. To access the videos and other helpful reference material, use the following link: What Women Know About Trauma.
2024-02-1933 minFreedHeartsA Gift from Susan: A Story About You from Mother GodI have tiny babies in my life now – my grandchildren. I love them – as they are, for who they are. Unconditionally. They don’t have to do anything to earn that. And they never, ever will. As we grow up, sometimes parents do and say hurtful things and withhold the love and acceptance you deserve. You don’t, and never did deserve that. So, today I want to give you a gift, just from me, and talk to that tiny child in you through a beautiful story - a picture of God as Mother, and you a...2024-01-1017 min