Choose Your Struggle

Season 2, Episode 81

From Heartbreak to Helping Others With Laurie Singer

This week, Jay chats with California-based therapist Laurie Singer. After overcoming a traumatic childhood and losing a child to cancer, Laurie dedicated her life to helping others. She's written a fantastic book, You're Not Crazy: Living with Anxiety, Obsessions and Fetishes and is the founder of a nonprofit.

To learn more about Laurie, check out her website https://lauriesingerbehavioral.com/ and find her book at Bookshop!

We're doing an end of season giveaway! At Thanksgiving, Jay will put all the names of everyone who has left a review into a generator and three people will receive a prize pack. One is Choose Your Struggle merch, one is a gift pack from my partners Road Runner and Bookshop, and one is a Youdgee muscle massager. If you haven't left a review yet, scroll down in these show notes and find the review link or, if you listen on i-Tunes, review it there!

Today's Good Egg: Leave a review and be entered into the end of season giveaway drawing!
Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].

• Tank Tops are in! You can see what they look like on the website (thanks to Jay's wife for modeling the women's cut). Reach out through the website to order. If you're looking for something a little less expensive, magnets are in too! Check them out on the website or Instagram. Patreon supporters get a discount so join Patreon!
• But that's not all! You can now buy even more merch! Check out our store on Teepublic at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/choose-your-struggle?ref_id=24308 for shirts, mugs, stickers, phone cases, and much, much more!
• Support the Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourStruggle
• Leave us an audio message to share feedback and have a chance to be played on the show: https://podinbox.com/CYS
• Review the Podcast: https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle.
• Support the Podcast, a different way: https://podhero.com/401017-ikv.
• Learn more about the Shameless Podcast Network: https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/
• Our Partner Bookshop (Support Local Book Stores and the Podcast in the Process!): https://bookshop.org/shop/CYS
• Our Partner Road Runner (Use Code CYS for 10% off): www.roadrunnercbd.com/ref/CYS
• As always, you can find more at our links: https://jay.campsite.bio

Check out the rest of Season 1 of Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It at https://kite.link/CYS-Stay-Savage.

Made It is a member of the Shameless Podcast Network and a Choose Your Struggle production. Learn more at https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ and at https://www.chooseyourstruggle.com/.

Learn more about Sarah and Savage Sisters, including how to support, at https://savagesisters.org/.

For more on Made It host Jay Shifman, see https://jay.campsite.bio/ and http://www.JayShifman.com.

A complete list of people you heard on this show (and those referenced but unheard from) and pictures to put a face with the names and voices can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-CIeh6f2bhgb3cGfJFCqvXL9SJWvSUtN?usp=sharing.

Made It Season 1: Stay Savage was recorded in South Philadelphia, except for the interview with Mother Mary Nolan, which was recorded at her house in the Philly suburbs, and the audio you hear in Episode 1, which was recorded on site in North Philly's Kensington neighborhood.

This show is dedicated to: Jim, David, Lauren, Renae, and the roughly 80,000 people who lost their life to OD in this country during the period of time in which the show was being made.

Made It was created without any sponsorship dollars. The partners you hear from were all donated their spots free of charge. But before you discount them for it know that we are so thankful for their support at a time when that was hard to find! And it means they are all orgs. and people we LOVE. So check them out! And to support us, reach out at [email protected] or through www.chooseyourstruggle.com or subscribe to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourStruggle.

Buy some merch (including the official Season 1: Stay Savage design!) at our store!

Our partners for this show are as follows:

Drug Policy Alliance

Great Pods

YaFavTrashman

Of Substance

e3 Radio/The Qube

The People of Color Psychedelic Collective

Consequence of Habit

The Head and the Hand

The New Books Network

Ootify

The podcasts profiled on this show are brought to you by Great Pods and include:

I’m The Villain

Ghost Town

What’s On Your Mind with Jani Rad

Cookies for Breakfast

Based on a True Story

Salad with a Side of Fries

Sex, Drugs, and Jesus

Hotter Than Health

Covering All Aspects of Holistic Health with Amanda Love

Crackdown

Don't like something you heard on the show? That's fine! This is a tough subject. Reach out at [email protected] and let's chat.

The theme song for this show was created by me using the song All That by Bensound. For proof of license please see the certificate in the compendium linked above.

The Made It theme, heard in Episode 10, was composed and performed by Leduce and Rob Devious.

Special thanks to Quinn Greenhaus for her help with enhancing the sound quality of the show. To improve your podcast...

Welcome to Episode 27!

Stick around after the interview for today's Choose Your Card and Good Egg.

Support the Podcast: https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourStruggle.

For more from Nick: https://leapfroggingsuccess.com/about/.

For more from Frederick: https://www.themessagellc.com/about-frederick-shegog-keynotes-conferences-organizations-commencements-inspirational-messages.

As always, you can find more info on me, and Choose Your Struggle, at my links: https://jay.campsite.bio/.

Season 2, Episode 76

Monday Motivation: Chopping It Up With Anna DeShawn

This week's Monday Motivation is Jay chatting with the entrepreneur Anna DeShawn. Anna is the founder of E3 Radio and, more recently, the Qube podcast app. E3 radio describes itself as "Queer Radio Done Right". The Qube is a podcast app specifically for shows "created by BIPOC and QTPOC" people. Jay and Anna talk about the necessity of intentionality and why it's so important to preserve stories of those who came before us.

Anna specifically asked that anyone of color or part of the LGBTQ community who has a shown reach out to pitch their show for The Qube!

Check out The Qube at https://theqube.app/ and E3 Radio at https://e3radio.fm/ and follow Anna at her FB https://www.facebook.com/annadeshawn83, her LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/annadeshawn/, her IG https://www.instagram.com/annadeshawn/, and her Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@annadeshawn?.

As a special bonus, anyone who leaves The Choose Your Struggle Podcast a review on the site of their choice and show us proof will get 25% off a tank top or, if you already own one, a care package of other Choose Your Struggle items on the house! Just take a screen shot or a pic with your phone and send it to [email protected] with your address and your choice.

What do you think? Everyone who responds, either by social media or my website, will get a sticker mailed to them. The first person to respond each week will get a magnet! So reach out or post something on your personal social media and tag me (and maybe share the show in the process?)!

If something in this episode upsets you, or makes you feel a certain way, take a moment and do some mindfulness. When you have the words, the thought thrashed out, send it to me! Share the podcast, tell the world your thoughts. That's how we make change.

No Good Egg or Card on Monday episodes.

Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].

• Tank Tops are in! You can see what they look like on the website (thanks to Jay's wife for modeling the women's cut). Reach out through the website to order. If you're looking for something a little less expensive, magnets are in too! Check them out on the website or Instagram. Patreon supporters get a discount so join Patreon!
• But that's not all! You can now buy even more merch! Check out our store on Teepublic at https://www.teepublic.com/stores/choose-your-struggle?ref_id=24308 for shirts, mugs, stickers, phone cases, and much, much more!
• Support the Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourStruggle
• Leave us an audio message to share feedback and have a chance to be played on the show: https://podinbox.com/CYS
• Review the Podcast: https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle.
• Support the Podcast, a different way: https://podhero.com/401017-ikv.
• Learn more about the Shameless Podcast Network: https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/
• Our Partner Bookshop (Support Local Book Stores and the Podcast in the Process!): https://bookshop.org/shop/CYS
• Our Partner Road Runner (Use Code CYS for 10% off): www.roadrunnercbd.com/ref/CYS
• As always, you can find more at our links: https://jay.campsite.bio

Season 2, Episode 64

This week's Monday Motivation was recorded in a booth at Podcast Movement! Joining me were my home base, the core 4, the rocks: past guests on this show Jenn Trepeck of Salad with a Side of Fries and Imran Ahmed of Great Pods, and new friend Cory Zechmann of HarkAudio. So many people made this conference incredible (I mention some of the others on the intro) but these three were the realest!

We get real nerdy on industry stuff and discuss what we learned at the conference. You can hear that we really enjoyed ourselves and our time together. I'm thankful for these three!

As a special bonus, anyone who leaves The Choose Your Struggle Podcast a review on their site will get 25% off a tank top or, if you already own one, a care package of other Choose Your Struggle items on the house! Just take a screen shot or a pic with your phone and send it to [email protected] with your address and your choice.

What do you think? Everyone who responds, either by social media or my website, will get a sticker mailed to them. The first person to respond each week will get a magnet! So reach out or post something on your personal social media and tag me (and maybe share the show in the process?)!

If something in this episode upsets you, or makes you feel a certain way, take a moment and do some mindfulness. When you have the words, the thought thrashed out, send it to me! Share the podcast, tell the world your thoughts. That's how we make change.

No Good Egg or Card on Monday episodes.

Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at [email protected].

• Tank Tops are in! You can see what they look like on the website (thanks to Jay's wife for modeling the women's cut). Reach out through the website to order. If you're looking for something a little less expensive, magnets are in too! Check them out on the website or Instagram. Patreon supporters get a discount so join Patreon!
• Support the Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourStruggle
• Leave us an audio message to share feedback and have a chance to be played on the show: https://podinbox.com/CYS
• Review the Podcast: https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle.
• Support the Podcast, a different way: https://podhero.com/401017-ikv.
• Learn more about the Shameless Podcast Network: https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/
• Our Partner Bookshop (Support Local Book Stores and the Podcast in the Process!): https://bookshop.org/shop/CYS
• Our Partner Road Runner (Use Code CYS for 10% off): www.roadrunnercbd.com/ref/CYS
• As always, you can find more at our links: https://jay.campsite.bio