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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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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.

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Hannah Talbot shares how burnout in a high-pressure career evolved into yoga, mindfulness, and energy work – and ultimately, the creation of a healing center designed for both seekers and practitioners. The discussion weaves through themes of intuition, risk, and following a vision before the path is clear. At its core, this episode is about connection – ancestral, emotional, and human – and the idea that healing happens when we bring light to the hard things instead of carrying them alone.

https://www.anamcarahealing.center/

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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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Interior designer Summerlyn Feckner discusses building a creative career, trusting your instincts, and what it really looks like to go out on your own. From the difference between designers and decorators to the deeply personal relationships formed with clients, Summerlyn shares the beauty and challenges behind the scenes of her work and explores motherhood, ambition, self-doubt, and the courage it takes to keep choosing your dreams.

https://gingerdsgns.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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Born in Thailand to a Thai mother and Italian-American father, Angelina Pitini moved to Spokane at 15, largely on her own, and has been forging her own path ever since. In this episode, she shares how she overcame crippling anxiety through solo travel across 20 countries, discovered a passion for editorial photography within the last year, and built a fearless approach to life that most people twice her age haven't found. A refreshingly honest conversation about jumping in headfirst, reframing failure as experience, and not waiting for life to fall into your lap.

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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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In this episode of Dream Anyway, social media manager and creative event host Hailey LaRosa shares how she built her own path as a young entrepreneur in Spokane. From launching her business Ginger Gets Social to creating community-focused events through Visionary Vault, Hailey talks about creativity, networking, overcoming imposter syndrome, and the courage it takes to start before you feel ready.

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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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In this episode of Dream Anyway, actress and designer Amy Sherman shares how a childhood marked by instability and loss shaped her journey toward creativity, faith, and hard-won self-acceptance. From pinup photography and costume design to theater and film, she reflects on art as therapy, motherhood as both ache and redemption, and the quiet revolution of learning to actually like yourself. It’s an honest, tender conversation about redefining success, offering grace to the little girl within, and choosing to create anyway.

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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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