Podcasts by If Its Not 1 Thing Its Your Mother

Encore Jack Grapes Part 2 Mother of a Story - Writing from your Deep Voice from 2019-08-29T09:03:43

You've got to convince people that the story doesn't matter. What matters is the truth of your deep voice, not your entertaining voice.

Jack Grapes, renowned writing teacher and award-win...

Encore Ep - Jack Grapes Mother of A Story - Letter from his Mother's Grave from 2019-08-28T22:00

Imagine receiving a letter from your mother a few years after she died. Imagine the letter is blank. That is the story our writer tells us this week. 

Jack Grapes, renowned writing teache...

Encore Episode - Jon Wise Mother of a Story- A Mother Obscured from 2019-08-21T22:00

"To begin with, this is not a story about my mother. She and I were not to enter the picture for a number of years. It’s another mother's story- of a ghost, a shadowy presence that moved along t...

Encore Episode - Alexis Rhone Fancher Mother of a Story- Cruel Choices from 2019-08-14T22:00

We're telling stories. 

Raw honest unapologetic episode about life after the death of this writer's son. She holds nothing back.

Alexis Rhone Fancher is an award winning poet and p...

Encore Episode - Anonymous Mother of a Story - Barnacles from 2019-08-07T22:00

We're telling stories.

Today’s guest is a best selling novelist and an all around wonderful writer. She wrote a beautiful piece for this podcast and then called us with a special request-...

Benjamin Davis Mother of a Story - Playlist for my Mother's Funeral from 2019-07-30T20:00

Benjamin Davis shares his poem, The Playlist At My Mother’s Funeral. We talk about how his mother would like a party when she dies which got him thinking of the playlist and how the songs that r...

Tresha Faye Haefner Mother of a Story - Paradise, California II from 2019-07-17T20:44:12

Tresha  Faye Haefner shares with us a poem about her childhood in paradise California. We talk about the wants and rebellion of youth and how when you’re a kid with the security of a loving fami...

Katie Manglis Mother of a Story - She Never Said I Love You from 2019-07-04T21:11:27

What's more important-- saying I love you or showing it through our actions?

In this episode we take a look at that. 

We're telling stories and having meaningful conversations abou...

Encore Episode - Dan Bucatinsky Mother of a Story - Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight? from 2019-06-19T22:00

It's Pride Month and we had to re release this episode! A father discovering the mother within. Dan Bucatinsky reads this hilarious excerpt his memoir "DOES THIS BABY MAKE ME LOOK STRAIGHT?"

Richard Valenza Mother of a Story - The Secret from 2019-06-12T22:00

When a mother's reaction is disappointing, is not the support you were needing or hoping for, remember to keep  a window open in your relationship because, one day she may just surprise you.

Gina Piccalo Mother of a Story - Silver Linings from 2019-06-05T19:53:53

We learn so much from our children. In this episode, Gina Piccalo reads from her not yet published memoir. When you had a troubled childhood and your daughter wants you to tell her bedtime stori...

Shari Walker Quan Mother of a Story - Heart Mom/Bio Mom from 2019-05-29T19:00

Being a mother is an attitude, not Biology. That is our tagline and that's what this entire episode is about. 

SHARI WALKER is a former foster youth who entered the foster care system at ...

Clay Rivers Mother of a Story - excerpt from Walking Tall from 2019-05-22T16:00

Operating in this world with what others may think of as challenges - being black, a little person, gay, and Christian, Clay Rivers reminds us that we all have challenges that we are walking around...

Jack Grapes Mother of a Story Part 2 - Making Art out of Pain from 2019-05-15T20:15

Jack Grapes, renowned Los Angeles writing teacher and award-winning poet read a poem in episode 25 that he wrote 50 years ago, after the death of his mother. This week in the rest of our convers...

Jack Grapes Mother of a Story Part One - Letter from My Mother from 2019-05-09T07:29:24

Imagine receiving a letter from your mother a few years after she died. Imagine the letter is blank. That is the story our writer tells us this week. 

Jack Grapes, renowned writing teache...

Evie Gold Mother of a Story - When Things are the Same, But Not at All from 2019-05-01T21:09:39

Life is complicated and communication can often feel like a tightrope walk. Taking your mom off the pedestal you have put her on and seeing her as a human being, flaws and all, is part of growin...

Ben Barnz Mother of a Story - excerpt from the memoir, We from 2019-04-25T06:16:27

Imagine being instantly 8 months pregnant. In this adoption story, our guest Ben Barnz reads an excerpt from his book We: an adoption and a memoir.

He shares how he and his husband came ...

Linda Freund Mother of a Story - Tripping with Mom from 2019-04-10T21:50

Here’s a question we are curious about: Do you teach your kids how to party responsibly? Did your mom teach you? Shouldn't we talk about how to parent when it comes to teens’ drinking and drug u...

Chanel Brenner Mother of a Story - Navigating Loss from 2019-04-03T22:00

Life is a beautiful thing if you can navigate all the loss. Once your child dies you’re still their mother. In this episode our guest shares the death of her 6 year old son and her journey of na...

Parker Lulu Sacavitch Mother of a Story - A Different Teenage Mother Story from 2019-03-27T19:00

A take on motherhood from a girl who is just entering womanhood. What happens when you are a teen, terrified to leave the nest and go to college? You create your comfort zone, your college famil...

Dan Moore Mother of a Story - His Mom is a Star from 2019-03-20T20:10

The power of letting the ones you love, know what they mean to you is what we are talking about in this episode. Sometimes our children see us as whole humans and not just “Mom”. And that exchan...

Tanya Davis Mother of a Story - Patterns Repeating... or not from 2019-03-13T19:00

We’re telling stories

We talk about the sadnesses that can be passed on to our children. Or sadness of our mother's that we sometimes take on as our own. How do we ease a burden and not t...

Jennifer Hamm Mother of a Story - Embracing the Space Between Us from 2019-03-06T20:00

We’re telling stories 

Jennifer Hamm’s story is about learning to raise the child she was given. Her second son was not like her first. She and her husband needed to figure out how to und...

Debora Perez Mother of a Story - The Seashell from 2019-02-27T19:00

We’re telling stories 

Debora Perez, shares a sweet story of her mother and a parenting trick she used involving a conch shell. She talks about the memories captured in snapshots of sound...

Tess Wheeler Mother of a Story - Mother Courage from 2019-02-20T18:40:48

We’re telling stories

Tess Wheeler went to school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and read English Literature at the University of York. After working as a financial editor in H...

Bird Sizelove Mother of a Story - 3 Stages of Parenting from 2019-02-15T09:55:39

We’re telling stories

Bird Sizelove is the lucky mother to her son Boston Powers- 25.5. She refers to him as her "voodoo-doll" because when he's cool, she's cool.... when he's no...

Kay Bolden Mother of a Story - A Loose Woman from 2019-02-07T08:59:23

"I didn't want you to grow up to be a loose woman," my mother said not long before she died. “But I see I have failed miserably.” This is how Kay Bolden's mother story begins. 

Kay Bolden...

Tori Time Mother of a Story - Gypsy Grandma from 2019-01-30T16:03

We’re telling stories

Our writer this week shares her gypsy grandma with us and how she embraces the bits of free spirit she's inherited from her.

Tori Time is a writer, director, ...

Jon Wise Mother of a Story - A Mother Obscured - a different kind of ghost story from 2019-01-23T21:41:14

"To begin with, this is not a story about my mother. She and I were not to enter the picture for a number of years. It’s another mother's story- of a ghost, a shadowy presence that moved along t...

Cathie Borrie Mother of a Story - A different dementia story from 2019-01-13T16:52:40

We’re telling stories

Cathie Borrie, is our guest. She reads from her family memoir, the long Hello ~ memory, my mother, and me. Cathie Borrie finds magic and poetry in her mothe...

Kelly Grace Thomas Mother of a Story - How The Body Is Passed Down. from 2019-01-10T12:35:19

We're telling stories.

Kelly Grace Thomas, is our guest today. We are discussing body image, how it is passed down through the generations, and what we're teaching our kids about it, espe...

Elya Braden Mother of a Story - How To Be A Bad Mother from 2019-01-06T08:29:37

A writing teacher told her that everyone is an expert at something. That is how this story came to be. She says you can't give what you didn't receive.

Elya Braden, former corporate lawye...

Bellina Logan Mother of a Story - Confessions of a Mulatto Love Child from 2019-01-02T22:44:13

Imagine if you got to have one more conversation with someone you love after they died. This writer keeps her free spirited mother alive through her funny touching writing and performance.

Alexis Rhone Fancher Mother of a Story - Cruel Choices from 2018-12-29T11:17:55

We're telling stories. 

Raw honest unapologetic episode about life after the death of this writer's son. She holds nothing back.

Alexis Rhone Fancher is an award winning poet and p...

Eric Mann Mother of a Story - Corporal Punishment from 2018-12-17T23:00

We're telling stories.

Spare the rod, spoil the child. A funny story about discipline and respect and his mother's unique brand of justice

Eric Mann is an author, actor, musician a...

Molly Hagan Mother of a Story - No Regrets from 2018-12-14T06:17:35

We're telling stories.

In her piece for the podcast, No Regrets, Molly Hagan writes very honestly about her own decision Not to become a mom, and the surprising realization she h...

Anonymous Mother of a Story - Her Mother Can Never Know from 2018-12-10T18:16:12

We're telling stories.

Today’s guest is a best selling novelist and an all around wonderful writer. She wrote a beautiful piece for this podcast and then called us with a special request-...

Cea Sunrise Person Mother of a Story - North of Normal from 2018-12-04T00:25:21

We're telling stories.

As a toddler, this writer's mother had her tending the fire, fetching water, and learning to skin bears, in contribution to their wilderness off-the-grid l...

Dan Bucatinsky Mother of a Story - Wake Up and Smell the Fingers from 2018-12-01T03:08:57

We're telling stories.

A father discovering the mother within. We discussed the mothering nature that a baby can bring.

Dan Bucatinsky reads WAKE UP AND THE SMELL THE FINGERS from ...

Ep 00 Trailer - If it's Not One Thing, It's your Mother from 2018-11-21T18:16:01

We're telling stories. If it's not 1 Thing, explores the topic of 'mother' from every angle imaginable and some you have not thought of. Each week, hosts Katie Mitchell and Lupe Padil...