Real Talk with Tina and Ann
Tina and Ann met as journalists covering a capital murder trial, 15 years ago. Tina has been a tv and radio personality and has three children. Ann has a master's in counseling and has worked in the jail system, was a director of a battered woman's shelter/rape crisis center, worked as an assistant director at a school for children with autism, worked with abused kids and is currently raising her three children who have autism. She also is autistic and was told would not graduate high school, but as you can see, she has accomplished so much more. The duo share their stories of overcoming and interview people who are making it, despite what has happened. This is more than just two moms sharing their lives. This is two women who have overcome some of life's hardest obstacles. Join us every Wednesday as we go through life's journey together. There is purpose in the pain and hope in the journey.
Real Talk with Tina and Ann
Latest Episodes
Building Kids Who Can Stand on Their Own: A Recipe for Raising Today’s Youth
We talk with life coach and TEDx speaker Randi Crawford about why teen anxiety is skyrocketing and how parents accidentally train kids to avoid discomfort. We share practical ways to build resilience, accountability, and trust so kids can handl...
From Grief to Justice on Death Row: Sophia Laurenzi’s Journey
We sit with writer Sophia Lorenzi as she tells the story of losing her dad to suicide and the shock of how “normal” things can look right before a crisis turns fatal. We also trace how her grief shaped her work as a death row investigator and w...
MentalHappy: Tamar Blue’s Mission to Make Mental Health Available to All
Anxiety can make you feel like you’re the only one struggling while you’re surrounded by people. That isolation gets worse when mental health support is expensive, hard to schedule, or simply not available where you live. We wanted a conversati...
If we didn’t choose the trauma, how do we choose what happens next?
Life can fracture in a single moment, and the crack line often becomes the date we measure everything against: before and after. We’re reflecting on a powerful conversation with Tim Smith, author of Fault Line Still Standing, whose own fault li...
He Thought He Was Getting a Day Off from School: Kidnapped at Six: Tim Smith's Journey from Trauma to Healing
A single morning can redraw the map of a child's entire life.At six years old, Tim Smith woke up believing he was getting a day off from school. Instead, it became the day that changed everything. In this powerful conversation, Tim, auth...