Advice from Mom
Summary: Advice from Mom is a podcast and cross-generational effort to answer life's big questions. Featured as “new and noteworthy” on Apple Podcasts and included on NPR's The Big Listen, Advice from Mom is an advice-column show hosted by Rebecca Garza-Bortman featuring listener letters and the advice and stories of her mother, Elizabeth Skibinski-Bortman, PhD. Affectionately known on the show as “Momma B”, Dr. Bortman is a small-town family therapist “on a one-woman mission to mother a mentally healthy world.” Each episode, this mother-daughter duo explores questions sent in by their listeners with the help of a series of guest experts. They have recorded advice with actress & SNL alum, Michaela Watkins; artist and graphic journalist, Wendy MacNaughton; and NPR's The Kitchen Sisters, as well as crisis counselors, authors, and wise creative professionals of all sorts. This podcast is founded on the belief that we need our mothers like we never have before. Not just our own mothers, but the mothers of the world. Anyone can submit a question at www.advicefrom.mom/request.
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This is Part 4 of 5 of Episode 01 of Advice from Mom. Here's the question: As a minority, how do I deal with feelings of inadequacy, alienation, rejection anxiety, and hopelessness. At a personal level, I need some empowering alternatives to feeling like I "don't belong" here in the US? A little backstory on me: I’m a non-political Latin american MD MBA, married to an American-born Anglo Saxon. We live a simple life in PA. I grew up during the war in my country of origin and have survived multiple traumas. Despite having worked in human development and altruism; despite having a legal status, being highly educated, and achieving a great deal of inner healing; the election results shook my insides to the point of anguish and powerlessness. Signed, Domesticated Fox The guest in this segment is Ahmad El Najar. Ahmad El Najar is a former legislative staffer and political campaign manager, now working on public policy and strategy at Townsquared.com (https://townsquared.com/blog/author/ahmad/) in New York. Previously, he worked as the Communications Director, City and County of San Francisco, Board of Supervisors. He has an International Human Rights Law degree from Oxford University. His current political advocacy work is with Take Back NYC (http://www.takebacknyc.nyc/) http://linkedin.com/in/ahmad-najjar-a9382017 As mentioned in this segment: World Without Hate: http://worldwithouthate.org
This is Part 5 of 5 of Episode 1 of Advice from Mom. As mentioned in the segment: How to Host a Resistance Revival: https://medium.com/roybahat/how-to-host-your-own-resistance-revival-72842793a674#.kk2kiwesl Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you enjoyed this podcast, please subscribe. If you share this podcast with a friend in need, then you are a friend indeed! A big thanks to our guests, Ahmad El Najar & Arun Chaudhary, to everyone who sent us questions, and to all my friends who beta-tested this episode (Aviva, Jane, Michael, Bryan, and Emily all the way up in Alaska) to Papa B, who patiently waited for so many suppers while Momma B and I recorded, and to my lovely husband who is an abundant source of helpfulness and has been very patient with me when I can't stop working on my new found love of podcast tinkering. And a huge big thank you to my mom for sharing her wisdom, her time, and her love. Advice from Mom is a production of Wise Ones Advice Services. It produced & edited by me, RGB. Sound engineering by Bryan Garza. Publicity by Jane Riccobono. The music in this episode is by Love, Jerks (http://www.lovejerks.com) Their song, Little Less Lonesome, featured in this episode will be out in Spring 2017.
