Surviving Matters

My name is Holly Lynch and I'm a two time cancer survivor. What got me through treatment was listening to others talk about the adversity they experienced and how they got through it. So I made a podcast about it for all to enjoy! Welcome to Surviving Matters, a show about living!

S2 Episode Ten: Dennis Wall and Corwin Connor 11/11/2020

S2 Episode Ten: Dennis Wall and Corwin Connor Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915728

S2 Episode Nine: Marjorie Parker 11/04/2020

S2 Episode Nine: Marjorie Parker Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915656

S2 Episode Eight: Alex Rojas 10/28/2020

S2 Episode Eight: Alex Rojas Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915617

S2 Episode Seven: Billy Dove and Tom Laughlin 10/21/2020

S2 Episode Seven: Billy Dove and Tom Laughlin Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915548

S2 Episode Six: Robert Lee 10/14/2020

S2 Episode Six: Robert Lee Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915473

S2 Episode Five: Mother Liles 10/07/2020

S2 Episode Five: Mother Liles Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915428

S2 Episode Four: Greg Kearns 09/30/2020

S2 Episode Four: Greg Kearns Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915359

S2 Episode Three: Dr. Laura Price 09/23/2020

S2 Episode Three: Dr. Laura Price Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915287

S2 Episode Two: Rev. Lindsey Briggs 09/16/2020

S2 Episode Two: Rev. Lindsey Briggs Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915227

S2: Episode One: Dr. Chris T. Pernell 09/09/2020

S2: Episode One: Dr. Chris T. Pernell Covid has changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/15915167

Episode Ten: Tom Allon 05/22/2019

Episode Ten: Tom Allon Tom Allon is the president and publisher of City & State Magazine. We knew his parents had survived the Holocaust and that's why we wanted to talk to him. What we didn't know was that he's also a college-aged cancer survivor. How do you get through that while studying for finals? Tom has some insight. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9881444

Episode Nine: Paul and Sibyl 05/14/2019

Episode Nine: Paul and Sibyl Paul and Sibyl wanted to be parents but couldn't bring one to full term. Their struggle to have a child after losing so many pregnancies is inspiring and heartbreaking. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9776774

Episode Eight: Gina 05/07/2019

Episode Eight: Gina Gina is an athlete. A few years ago while training for her second Iron Man race, she woke up in the hospital with a TBI. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9690110

Episode Seven: Maria 05/01/2019

Episode Seven: Maria Maria is a part of a larger story about immigration and human rights. Each year workers in the US, those with documentation and those without, send their wages back to their home countries to the annual sum of $56 billion. It’s the largest, most effective foreign aid in human history and it’s all crowd sourced, one individual at a time. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9608453

Episode Six: Harriet 04/23/2019

Episode Six: Harriet Harriet is a co-founder of the DOE Fund's Ready, Willing and Able program. Last year she nearly lost her life but couldn't leave her life's work. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9499196

Episode Five: Stephanie 04/16/2019

Episode Five: Stephanie Stephanie found out she was pregnant right before college. She tells us how she managed to be a new mother and a freshman. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9421316

Episode Four: Shavar Jeffries 04/09/2019

Episode Four: Shavar Jeffries Shavar Jeffries is an American civil rights attorney and former candidate for mayor of Newark. When he was a young child his mother was stalked and murdered by her husband. Shavar shares with us what it was like to lose his mother and how that shaped the man he is today. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9328316

Episode Three: Mavis 04/03/2019

Episode Three: Mavis Mavis was one of the most successful nursing school teachers in New York City. She grew up on the segregated Upper West Side of Manhattan. Now nearly 100 years old, she tells us about her life and career; how she got through it and what we can all learn from it. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9253760

Episode Two: Terrance Coffie 03/26/2019

Episode Two: Terrance Coffie Terrance Coffie was raised in foster care and ended up being what he describes as the worst stereotype of a black man at the age of 39. Then after 20 years of being in and out of prison, Mr. Coffie radically changed his life. He now teaches criminal justice at NYU. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/9134123

Episode One: Mel Wymore 03/26/2019

Episode One: Mel Wymore Mel Wymore was born a girl and tried her best to be what everyone wanted her to be. Several decades later she discovered that she didn't identify as a woman. /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/8913713

Surviving Matters: Introduction 03/07/2019

Surviving Matters: Introduction Hello my name is Holly Lynch. I'm a two time cancer survivor. What got me through all the pain and the fear of cancer was listening to other people talk about how they survived adversity in their lives. So I decided to make a podcast about just that, everyday people talking about their darkest days and their biggest challenges. The only thing that matters is surviving! Thank you for joining us! /episode/index/show/survivingmatters/id/8913560

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