Episodes

  • Milestone 27 - Alexa

    Milestone 27 - Alexa
    May 31 2021
    Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant.

    Life's Milestones is taking a break for a few months, so your host decided to say goodbye for now with a tongue in cheek episode where he asks the show's questions to his Amazon Alexa!

    In this episode, an electronic devices attempts to answer some very human questions and the answers are definitely peculiar and funny in places.


    Host / Editor: Mark Adams
    'Guest': Alexa
    Twitter: @LifesMilestones
    We Made This on Twitter: @wmt_network
    Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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    24 mins
  • Milestone 26 - Matt Lubbers-Moore

    Milestone 26 - Matt Lubbers-Moore
    May 10 2021
    Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant.

    Mark's guest on this episode is Matt Lubbers-Moore: writer and one of the owners/team at ReQueered Tales publishers.

    In this episode, Matt shares stories about his life's milestones including his love of libraries from a young age and how he loved creating his own library by buying as much as he could from library book sales, how he ended up being faceplanted into a cake on his wedding day, and how he's planning on donating his gay comic book collection to a museum so that his memory lives on after he dies.


    Host / Editor: Mark Adams
    Guest: Matt Lubbers-Moore
    Twitter: @LifesMilestones
    We Made This on Twitter: @wmt_network
    Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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    59 mins
  • Milestone 25 - Nancy Shadlock

    Milestone 25 - Nancy Shadlock
    Apr 19 2021
    Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant.

    Mark's guest on this episode is Nancy Shadlock: Life Coach and podcast host of The Coming Out Chronicles.

    In this episode, Nancy shares stories about her life's milestones including a story about her childhood imaginary friend Uncle George, her decision to get pregnant at the same time as her partner from the same donor, why her father weed whacking an aisle for her wedding was so important, and how her grandfather's gallows humour helped her when he was dying.


    Host / Editor: Mark Adams
    Guest: Nancy Shadlock
    Twitter: @LifesMilestones
    We Made This on Twitter: @wmt_network
    Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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    49 mins
  • Milestone 24 - Brad Shreve

    Milestone 24 - Brad Shreve
    Mar 29 2021
    Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant.

    Mark's guest on this episode is Brad Shreve: Queer Crime writer and host of the Queer Writers of Crime podcast.

    In this episode, Brad shares stories about his life's milestones including a childhood prank involving a mean teacher; chickens and a frozen puddle, how he has had 4 marriages to two different people, what it's like coming out as gay in your late 30s, and how he helped a friend with AIDS to a dignified death.


    Host / Editor: Mark Adams
    Guest: Brad Shreve
    Twitter: @LifesMilestones
    We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
    Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Milestone 23 - India Bastien

    Milestone 23 - India Bastien
    Mar 15 2021
    Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant.

    Mark's guest on this episode is India Bastien: podcast host of Southern Queeries.

    In this episode, India shares stories about her life's milestones including what it was like growing up as the daughter of a midwife in Mexico, how Covid-19 restrictions and the potential redaction of her marriage rights as a same-sex couple ruined her wedding plans and what she and her wife are doing post-covid, and how she dealt with the death of a relative that had been cruel to her and her mother.


    Host / Editor: Mark Adams
    Guest: India Bastien
    Twitter: @LifesMilestones
    We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
    Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Milestone 22 - Steve Cummins

    Milestone 22 - Steve Cummins
    Mar 1 2021
    Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant.

    Mark's guest on this episode is Steve Cummins: wrestling referee and podcast host of Play Your Pods Right, Bucket List Festival and When We Group Up.

    In this episode, Steve shares stories about his life's milestones including how he nearly got tumble dried as a child, what it was like growing up on a dairy farm, how poor service from wedding suppliers meant that his wife and he did it all themselves and made it so much more personal, and how the death of his mum at the age of 12 changed his life and allowed him to understand grief.


    Host / Editor: Mark Adams
    Guest: Steve Cummins
    Twitter: @LifesMilestones
    We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
    Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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    58 mins
  • Teaser - Ink Stories

    Teaser - Ink Stories
    Feb 25 2021
    Show host Mark has a new podcast coming out! It's a podcast about tattoos and this teaser trailer will let you know all about it.

    Please consider giving Mark's new podcast a listen!
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    4 mins
  • Milestone 21 - Steve Valentino

    Milestone 21 - Steve Valentino
    Feb 15 2021
    Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant.

    Mark's guest on this episode is Steve Valentino: musician, wrestler, poet, artist and goodness knows what else!

    In this episode, Steve shares stories about his life's milestones including how he was told that he was going to be a father by a partner who faked the pregnancy, how he'd like to personalise his own wedding with his own music and poetry, and how his life's outlook changed when his best friend took his own life.

    Host / Editor: Mark Adams
    Guest: Steve Valentino
    Twitter: @LifesMilestones
    We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod
    Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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    1 hr and 13 mins