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From addict/alcoholic to C-suite professional, Jessica helps people from the stage and beyond to view and live their life with a different, and empowering, lens. Let’s look back at this conversation with her from four years ago.

https://www.jessica-bonar.com

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Host Hara Allison won first place in the 2022 International Positive Change Podcast Awards and was a nominee in the 2023 and 2024 Publisher Podcast Awards and in the 18th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards. She was also a 2024 Spokane Women of Achievement nominee for the Arts and a finalist for The Women Changing the World Awards.

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This episode first aired on September 25, 2021, as Motherless Daughters on my podcast Beneath Your Beautiful.

I’m bringing it back now as The Beauty of What Remains, at a deeply meaningful moment - 40 years after losing my own mom. On May 3, I’ll be gathering with other women who share this loss for a special event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-beauty-of-what-remains-tickets-1984135571907

In this conversation, I sit with 12 women — each with her own story of losing her mom — to explore what it means to grow, grieve, and live without that foundational relationship. Some relationships were complicated, marked by addiction, distance, or pain. Others were deeply loving, leaving behind an ache that never fully fades. All are honest.

Featuring: Krisha Young, Gillian Cranehahn, Amber McKenzie, Judi Rabensteiner Frers, Janet E. Gracey, Karen Holzer, Leslie Woodfill, Kerri Miller, Rene Johnston, Lona Barnum, Emily Waters Britton-Arnold, Cecily Mathis

We talk about what it was like to be daughters in those relationships — and what it means to become women without them. How loss shapes identity. How patterns repeat — or are broken. How, even in absence, a mother’s presence can still be felt in dreams, memories, and the quiet ways we move through the world.

There is no single way to be a motherless daughter. But there is connection here. Understanding. And perhaps a kind of healing that happens when we realize we are not alone.

This episode is shared in honor of my mom, and for every woman who still, in some way, just wants her mom.

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Host Hara Allison won first place in the 2022 International Positive Change Podcast Awards and was a nominee in the 2023 and 2024 Publisher Podcast Awards and in the 18th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards. She was also a 2024 Spokane Women of Achievement nominee for the Arts and a finalist for The Women Changing the World Awards.

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Photography: hara.photography
Photo booth: hara.photography/happystance
Design: studioh-creative.com

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Josalyn Isbell, disabled veteran, former Marine, writer, and fashion model, explores what it really looks like to become yourself against the odds. She shares her journey from military life to stepping into the world of fashion, and from years of suppression to embracing her identity as a trans woman.

At the heart of the conversation is a simple but powerful idea: life is hard anyway, so you might as well live it truthfully. This episode is for anyone who feels the pull to express themselves but hesitates—whether that looks like a bold life change or something as small as putting on the hat.

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Host Hara Allison won first place in the 2022 International Positive Change Podcast Awards and was a nominee in the 2023 and 2024 Publisher Podcast Awards and in the 18th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards. She was also a 2024 Spokane Women of Achievement nominee for the Arts and a finalist for The Women Changing the World Awards.

Dream, Anyway podcast
Photography: hara.photography
Photo booth: hara.photography/happystance
Design: studioh-creative.com