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Jeb Brown is a very talented and successful actor who’s been doing it since childhood and starred in many great plays and tv shows such as beautiful the Carole king musical, beauty and the beast, Spider-Man, and many more! More details in this interview!

Brian Dewan is a very funny and interesting man musician storyteller and musical instrument inventor and still uses no iPhone and limits the screen time which is how we should all model! He also worked as a camp counselor! More details in this interview!

Florence Dore is a great friend and very talented musician and singer/songwriter and a wonderful professor of English and has the ability to be a great therapist even if it isn’t her profession and even plays a song “Christmas” at the end! More details in the interview!

PK Simonds is a great friend and very talented and successful TV writer and show runner and soon to be author full of great advice and tips on how to be successful at it and lived in LA now in Boston and cape cod! More details in the interview!

Mark Spencer is a great friend and very talented musician and incredible player who plays and has played for Laura Cantrell, Lisa Loeb, Son Volt, Blood Oranges, and many more, and is full of great advice!!!!! More details in the interview.

Gail Flackett: a great friend and a therapist, her only goal in life is to help people who need it, and was originally from Philly and spent her whole adult life in Boston!

Jennifer Flackett: a great friend, TV writer director and producer, talented actress, born and raised in Boston, currently living between NYC and LA!

Dr. Alan Azrak: a very wonderful dentist, originally from Syria, and was actually a soccer player before becoming a dentist, and as a dentist is full of good advice!

Wyna Liu is a wonderful human being, a great friend, puzzle creator, editor of New York Times game connections, and is very smart and hardworking, and resides in Chinatown NYC! More details in this interview!

Hilary and Selden Illick are wonderful people, GREAT friends, great trauma coaches and family therapists as they’re inspired by being mother/daughter to each other so it runs in the family! They were both so kind and assuring to me and my mother when I lost my language at 22 months old and luckily got it back not long after! They both reside in Boston MA! More details in this interview!

Sue Erikson Bloland is a wonderful human being, a WONDERFUL great aunt, a great psychotherapist and psychoanalyst, inspired by her dad Erik Erikson, and wrote a book about challenges of growing up with a famous father called “In The Shadow of Fame”! She grew up all over the place but currently resides in Hastings on Hudson NY! More details in this interview.

Mark Levin is a wonderful human being, a great friend, a GREAT TV writer, producer, and director, worked on many great shows such as Wimbledon, Nim’s Island, Little Manhattan, Big Mouth, and much more! He grew up in Michigan but currently resides in NYC and LA! More details in this interview.

PJ Mode is a wonderful human being, a WONDERFUL grandfather, grew up in Indianapolis, lived most of his adult life in DC, but currently and forever living in NYC! He is a guy who served the navy through college, worked as a lawyer for many MANY years, covered politics including for Bobby Kennedy, post retirement he’s been studying old maps outside of work and the way they work, as well as being a yo-yo and chess champion outside of work! More details in this interview!

Ben Gross is a wonderful human being and a GREAT cousin, who’s the creator of the online game Bracket City in the Atlantic magazine, started his own restaurant, the Montague Diner, and is a very smart guy and a lawyer! He was born and raised in New York City and lives in Brooklyn. On the podcast, he talks about how he once wanted to be an astronaut, which of his many jobs is his favorite, and why bananas are the only fruit he eats.