ALL EPISODES
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Building Resilience in the Next Generation: Supporting Teens & Preventing Suicide
with special guest, Iuri Melo September 19, 2025 After a devastating wave of suicides in his community, Iuri co-created School Pulse, a text-based support system that provides real-time encouragement, resources, and connection for teens, parents, and schools. Together, Sarah and Iuri dive into:
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Shaping Our Built Environment for Personal Transformation
with special guest, Kathi Burns September 5, 2025 In this conversation, Sarah sits down with Kathi Burns, a best-selling author, board certified professional organizer, personal stylist & nationally recognized for her simple organizing & style solutions. She has also been featured on Good Morning America as a successful woman owned business. Sarah and Kathi explore how our relationship with our built and digital environments impacts our well-being, productivity, and connections with others. |
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Intimacy Though Community: Rethinking Connection Beyond the Nuclear Family
with special guest, Beverly Joy Ehrlich August 22, 2025 In this heartfelt and thought-provoking conversation, RLT-certified coach Beverly Joy Ehrlich sits down with Sarah Melissa Oswald, Director of the Relational Life Foundation, to explore what it truly means to foster intimacy through community. Together, they challenge the limitations of the nuclear family model and invite us to reimagine relationships as living systems—ever-evolving, interdependent, and rich with possibility. |
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Navigating Neurodiverse Relationships
with special guest, Caron Starobin, LCSW-C August 8, 2025 In this rich conversation, therapist, educator, and RLT mentor Caron Starobin, LCSW-C, joins us to explore the unique complexities—and deep potential—of neurodiverse relationships. Drawing on decades of experience, Caron shares how Relational Life Therapy (RLT) offers an empowering framework for supporting couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent. |
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Building Stronger Families Through Connection
with special guest, Susan Caso July 25, 2025 In this heartfelt episode of Facets of Connection, we sit down with therapist, author, and mother, Susan Caso, MA, LPC, to explore how respectful, connected relationships between parents and teens can help shift the trajectory of our current youth mental health crisis. Drawing from over two decades of experience and her book The Parent-Teen Connection, Susan offers actionable tools for building emotional closeness, fostering trust, and transforming conflict into meaningful repair. |
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From Stigma to Safety: Access, Equity and Representation in BIPOC Communities
with special guests, Stacee & Ya'Ron Brown July 11, 2025 In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Stacee and Ya’Ron Brown, licensed professional counselors, married couple, and co-founders of the Relational Growth and Wellness Foundation. They share their mission to bring healing, transformation, and liberation to BIPOC and Pan-African communities through accessible mental health care, relational education, and cultural representation. |
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Mini Matters of the Heart: From Dehumanization to Aliveness
with our host, Sarah Melissa Oswald June 27, 2025 Join our host, Sarah Melissa Oswald, as she takes us inside Colorado prisons, where she witnessed the transformative power of the Realness Project. Through heartfelt conversations with incarcerated men, she explores what it means to connect, to lead, and to heal—even in the most dehumanizing environments. |
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Connection Compass: The Center of Health
with special guest, Cathy Hill, PhD June 13, 2025 In this short podcast segment, we explore the evolution of RLT’s Relationship Grid. You'll learn how healthy self-esteem balances equally warm regard for self and others, and how having both protective and containing boundaries is essential for respectful relational dynamics. |
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Beyond the Bottom Line: The Business of Being Human
with special guest, Matt McCall of Forge Capital May 30, 2025 We sit down with venture capitalist and entrepreneur Matt McCall to explore how purpose, relationships, and self-growth intersect—both in life and in business. From the power of storytelling to the emotional realities of leadership and transition, Matt shares deeply personal insights on navigating connection in an often disconnected world. Whether you're building a company or simply building a life, this episode invites you to reflect, realign, and reconnect. |
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Your Voice Matters: Turning Passion into Purpose Through Story
with special guest, Tracy McCartney of The Red Canary Magazine May 16, 2025 In this episode, Sarah speaks with Tracy McCartney—mother, writer, connector, and founder/producer of Red Canary Magazine—about the power of storytelling in social and environmental justice. Tracy shares how she’s transformed grief and love for the Earth into real-world action through independent journalism. They explore the deep ties between activism, healing, and human connection. If you’ve ever questioned how your gifts can spark change, this conversation offers hope and inspiration. |
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Sustainable Hope
with special guest, Executive Director of the Foundation for Self Leadership, Toufic Hakim May 2, 2025 A heartfelt episode about cultivating sustainable hope in uncertain times. Sarah and Toufic explore how tending to our inner worlds, relationships, and communities can ground us in clarity and compassion. Toufic shares insights on the power of self-awareness and connection as pathways to presence and purpose. |
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Relational Reckoning: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
with special guest, Founder of RLT, Terry Real April 18, 2025 We’re excited to share a powerful new episode of Facets of Connection! Join RLT founder and board president Terry Real and senior RLT practitioner Anna Sterk, LMFT as they dive into the tough question: Should I stay or should I go? Whether you're in the midst of a relational reckoning or simply curious, this conversation offers deep insight, compassion, and clarity. |
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Breaking Generational Cycles of Incarceration
with special guest, Laurie Lazar of Realness Project April 4, 2025 A riveting conversation about the devastating upbringing of inmates and psychology behind their behavior, along with powerful insights on how relational skills can put an end to generational cycles of incarceration. |
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Natural Intelligence: Lessons From Wild Horses
with special guest, Neda DeMayo of Return to Freedom March 21, 2025 Discover how connecting with horses can lead us back to our primal roots, fostering a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the natural world. In partnership with Return to Freedom. |
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