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Friends In Deed Podcast — 79 episodes
2026 - 8 When a Billionaire Shapes Homelessness Policy
2026 -7 Hearing it Directly: A Conversation with Street and Housing Staff
2026 - 6 Finding Safety and Strength: Fiona's story after the Eaton Fire
2026 - 5 Vehicular Homeless: Conversation with Professor Chris Giamarino
2026 - 4 Successful 3-D Printing a Solution for Interim Housing: Conversation with co-founder Gene Edelman
2026 - 3 From Darkness to Light: Cristian's Journey to The Women's Room
2026 - 2 Congregation Emerging from the Ashes, Part II: Saint Mark's Episcopal Church
2026 - 1 Destroyed Houses of Worship Emerge from the Fire: Conversation with 3 Local Clergy
2025 - 12 Safe Parking: Why it Works and Why We Should Support it!
2025 - 11 Meet Opie: TWR Guest Who Went from College to the Streets to Grad School
2025 - 10 SNAP CUTS BEGINNING! A conversation with FID Food Pantry Director, Tim Nistler
2025 - 9 Money for Ballrooms But Not SNAP
2025 - 8 Government Shutdown and Funding Housing
2025 - 7 Trying to Count People: Conversation with Jennifer O'Reilly Jones on 2025 Homeless Count
2025 - 6 Fleeing the Flames, Losing Everything: A Conversation with Jennifer
2025 - 5 Eaton Fire Update: Tish Inong and Street Outreach
2025 - 4 Meet our New Strategic Plan!
2025 - 3 Katie Hill, New Face in Town: Conversation with new Union Station CEO
2025 - 2 Live Conversation with Rep. Judy Chu: Potential Cuts to SNAP and Medicaid
2025 - 1 2025 Begins with Eaton Fire Destruction: 1st Podcast of the Year
2024 - 16 Families with Babies Living in Cars, Homeless Seniors Needing Dialysis: Short Update from Street Outreach and Housing
2024 - 15 Intersection between Homelessness and Domestic Violence
2024 - 14 State of FID 2024
2024-13 All Things FID! A Update with Ryan Greer
2024-12 Public Libraries and Estevez film 'The Public': Interview with Tim McDonald, Library Director for City of Pasadena
2024-11 Grants Pass City Council Meeting Debrief and Annual Report Highlights
2024-10 Preparing for City Council Discussion on Encampments
2024-9 Grants Pass v. Johnson, Part II--Conversation with Tish Inong, Director of Street Outreach and Housing
2024-8 Grants Pass v. Johnson, Part I
2024-7 2024 Homeless Count, Initial Thoughts from the Report
2024-6 Older Americans Facing Eviction is on the Rise
2024-5 Mental Illness is Real and Needs Our Attention: Conversation with Dr. Julie Moore
2024-4 Living in Your Car at Age 70
2024-3 My Dog is My Home: Emotional Support Animals Save Lives
2024-2 Anthony and His 7 year-old Chess Champion Son Get Housed!
2024-1 Bad Weather Shelter Reopening!
2023-16 FID 2023 Recap
2023-15 It's Not Just a Job, it's a Spiritual Calling: Interview with TWR's Jane Armbruster
2023-14 A Conversation with Los Angeles Times Columnist Steve Lopez
2023-13 "It's Like Heaven" A Personal Story of a Guest in The Women's Room in Her Own Words
2023-12 Renting in California? Either make $44/hr or work 3 minimum wage jobs!
2023-11 Don't Make $24/hr? Good Luck Renting a 1-bedroom home in America
2023-10 The Demographic of the Forgotten: A Conversation with FID Substance Abuse Specialist Olivia Esteb
2023-9 "It Won't Happen to Me": One Woman's Story on the Streets
2023-8 Hope Amidst the Struggle: Homelessness, Women, Mortality, and Mental Heath in Pasadena
2023-7 "Don't Call Me Crazy!" Mental Health and Homelessness, Myths and Facts
2023-6 Leaving the Narrow Places: Passover, Expansiveness and Homelessness
2023-5 Keeping the Poor in Poverty: Payday Loans, Overdraft and Check Cashing Fees
2023-4 Exploring the Homeless Count with Jenni O'Reilly-Jones, Pasadena Housing Department
2023-3 "It Could Be Any of Us": Stories from the Street
2023-2 Emergency Motel Program: Updates, Info and Potential Solution
2023-1 Rent Control Comes to Pasadena: A Conversation with Peter Dreier and Ryan Bell
2022-26 Budgets are Moral Documents
2022-25 Food Pantry Numbers are Skyrocketing!
2022-24 More Interim Housing Needed! A Conversation with Anne Miskey, CEO of Union Station Homeless Services
2022-23 Hypomania: Fewer Choices, More Generosity
2022-22 Food Costs and Evictions
2022-21 The Women's Room Turns 15!
2022-20 Pregnant Woman in a U-Haul, Single Moms in Cars
2022-19 Stories from the Street: Two Guys on the Street
2022-18 Street Outreach Deep Dive with Program Director Tish Strickland
2022-17 Talking about Tiny Home Villages, Again
2022-16 Checking in on the State of Evictions
2022-15 Stories from the Street w/special interview of TWR guest
2022-14 Jubilee and a Theology of Interruption: Not Seeing Homelessness and Poverty as a Life Sentence
2022-13 Roe v. Wade: How This Law Affects Women of Color and Women Living in Poverty
2022-12 Stories from the Street: Meeting Folks Experiencing Chronic Homelessness
2022-11 The More You Give, The More You Get
2022-10 Lent, Ukraine and the Power of Women: A Conversation with Rev. Marlene Pomeroy
2022-9 Lindsey Reed, Director, Bad Weather Distribution/Motel program, and Dedication to Ukraine
2022-8 Stories from the Street: 89 and 63 years old
2022-7 Najwa Jones: From Being on the Streets to Getting People Off the Streets
2022-6 Celebrating Black History Month
2022-5 Battling Food Insecurity: A Look into the Friends In Deed Food Pantry
2022-4 Stories from the Street
2022-3 The Women's Room
2022-2 Space Race and Poverty
2022-1 Eviction Prevention and Rental Assistance
Pilot Episode: 2021-1