Life Challenges
Let’s be honest—life throws curveballs that we never saw coming. In this space, we confront those unexpected moments that knock the wind out of us. From sudden changes to long-term struggles, we explore how people navigate the tough stuff, how they stumble, and somehow, how they keep moving forward. Because if there’s one thing we know, it’s that life is hard, and it’s okay to admit it.
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Food, Forgiveness and the Cost of Being Thin: A Conversation with Geneen Roth
Every woman in the world has shared one feeling: that their body is wrong. We like to say that we've come "so far," but just open any social media app…
April 21, 2026
I Can’t Have Kids and My Friends Are Pregnant
On today’s episode, we hear from Cora Danielson, a comic who has been wrestling with something many women do – her inability to have children despite wanting them very, very…
March 24, 2026
S4: Under a Cloud of Loss
Damon’s grandparents were murdered 18 months before he was born. He never knew them, but their deaths — and the trial for their killer — defined much of his childhood. …
March 3, 2026
Under a Cloud of Loss
This episode originally ran in 2016, and we pulled it out of the archives to share with you here, and to kick off a new season of TTFA Anthologies, where…
March 3, 2026
There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 2)
“Can I move in with you?” Laurel Louise Anderson (lovingly called Miss Ma’am) posed the question to our producer and her son, Marcel Malekebu, in the summer of 2024. After…
February 26, 2026
There’s Someone Dying Upstairs (Part 1)
“Can I move in with you?” Laurel Louise Anderson (lovingly called Miss Ma’am) posed the question to our producer and her son, Marcel Malekebu, in the summer of 2024. After…
February 24, 2026
Update: The Fat Guy with the Alcohol
It’s been a year and a half since we aired an episode where we spoke with Evan about his past and his current health journey of losing weight and reclaiming…
February 3, 2026
AITA: I Want to Leave My Dying Boyfriend
Her boyfriend is dying… What should she do? When you’re faced with the possibility of joining the Hot Young Widows Club, you get slammed with a million questions. And for…
November 25, 2025
From The Archives: October 8, 1988
Suffering can feel like such a singular experience -- like there’s no one else in the world who understands what we’re going through. But sometimes, if we look hard enough,…
October 8, 2025
22 & Struggling (is it just me??)
Even if you have not been 22 with an abusive ex-boyfriend, broke, homesick, and friendless in a new city, you have, at one point or another, felt like today’s texter…
September 30, 2025
You’re Not Too Old, It’s Not Too Late Part 2(with Cheryl Sparks)
Last week, Nora set out to prove that no one is ever too old and it's never too late to try something entirely new. The mailbox was so full of…
September 23, 2025
You’re Not Too Old, It’s Not Too Late(with Jamie Golden)
Nora recently got a question that asked, “Is 31 too old to pivot into a new career?” The short answer: NO! You’re not too old and it’s not too late…
September 16, 2025
Gen Z Dating is Weird: Your Calls
What matters to you matters to me. That’s why I make sure to take time to do live calls and answer your questions. In this episode, we talk Gen Z…
September 12, 2025
Hysterectomies, Health Insurance, and Husbands: TFA Live-Call In #1
Nora started this show because she wants to talk to YOU, the listener, about what matters to you. So today, she talks to listeners about it all : getting a…
August 19, 2025
Giving Away the Farm
Kathy Barker isn’t just the founder of Barker Farm – she’s a mother, an advocate for mental health awareness and breaking the stigma of food insecurity, and a self-proclaimed “worker…
August 12, 2025
