From plural marriage and public heartbreak to grief, independence, and a new life on her own terms By Conner Tighe For years, millions of viewers knew Janelle Brown through Sister Wives. Her marriage, family, parenting, and relationships unfolded on television while audiences debated nearly every decision the Brown family made. But underneath the reality TV story was a woman who had spent decades building a life around a large family and an unconventional marriage. Janelle is

How Gina Cloud is helping women unlearn shame, trust their bodies, and reclaim power through every stage of life. By Conner Tighe & Julie Lokun Women start receiving messages about their bodies early. They are told to stay attractive, stay youthful, keep their periods private, and avoid looking older. Over time, those expectations can become so familiar that they stop feeling like outside pressure and start feeling like personal beliefs. Gina Cloud has spent more than 25 year

Why trust matters more than the size of an inheritance By Conner Tighe Money can expose the parts of a family that everyone has learned to avoid. A hidden account, an inheritance revealed after a death, or a loan that goes unpaid may appear to be a financial problem. In Emily Bouchard's experience, the deeper problem is often trust. Emily is a family dynamics coach and former marital and family therapist who has spent more than two decades helping families talk about wealth,

After surviving abuse, scarcity, immigration, and a major stroke at 35, Simone Gisondi explains why healing begins when we stop judging our adaptations and start listening to the body. By Conner Tighe What happens when survival mode becomes so familiar that it feels normal? On this episode of Get Obsessed, host Mika Altidor sits down with Simone Gisondi, host of the Health Confidential podcast, for a deeply personal conversation about childhood trauma, the nervous system, sel

In part two of her conversation on Get Obsessed, the star of Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet reveals what the cameras did not show—and why silence is never neutral when someone is being harmed. By Conner Tighe Dr. Christine Marie spent years building trust in Short Creek, a community shaped by religious control and deep suspicion of outsiders. That trust eventually put her close enough to Sam Bateman to hear his confessions, document evidence, and help investigators bui

Dr. Christine Marie entered Short Creek carrying her own history with polygamy and trauma. What she found challenged the sensational stories surrounding the FLDS—and revealed how coercive control truly takes hold. By Conner Tighe In 2016, Dr. Christine Marie moved to Short Creek, a community long associated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. To outsiders, the FLDS had already been reduced to a familiar collection of images: prairie dresses, p

By Conner Tighe For years, audiences knew Janelle Brown as one of many in a much larger family. On Sister Wives, her life unfolded alongside the complicated relationships, shifting loyalties, and everyday realities of plural marriage. Viewers watched her work, raise six children, and navigate a family structure that few people outside the Brown household truly understood. But before there were cameras, headlines, or public debates, there was simply a family trying to make an

By Conner Tighe For nine years, I lived with someone who struggled with Adderall and alcohol addiction. But if you walked into our home, you might not have known. There were no drunken explosions in front of me. He never hit me. He never physically abused me. He cooked for me. That's what makes this story difficult to tell. Because when someone hurts you without becoming an obvious villain, you can spend years wondering whether you're allowed to call what happened to you harm

By Conner Tighe On the latest episode of Get Obsessed, hosts Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor sit down with Matt Grace, an author, speaker, and recovery expert who has spent more than two decades sober after years spent in the grip of drug addiction, alcohol addiction, sex addiction, and self-destructive behavior. This episode's look at Matt Grace's addiction recovery is not a tidy redemption arc but a layered, honest account of how someone claws their way back from the edge, and

By Conner Tighe For many people, the word "home" means safety. But for survivors of family trauma, home is often where the wounds started. That tension is exactly what psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Sherrie Campbell unpacks in her conversation with Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor on the latest episode of the Get Obsessed podcast. Dr. Campbell, a licensed psychologist, TEDx speaker, and host of the globally ranked Sherapy Sessions podcast, has spent decades helping peopl

By Conner Tighe What does it take to leave a world that has shaped your identity, your relationships, your purpose, and your future? In this powerful episode of Get Obsessed, hosts Julie Lokun and Mika Altidor continue their conversation with Anne Gollert Hill, a writer, survivor, and creator of My Scientology Story. Anne shares an extraordinary firsthand account of life inside Scientology, including her time working within the Sea Org, the religious order often described as

True crime is the number one podcast genre in the world — and here’s the kicker: over 70% of listeners are women. That statistic says something powerful. We’re not drawn to murder; we’re drawn to understanding it. To prepare. To protect. To know what danger looks like before it finds us. I call it The Ed Gein Effect — that eerie pull between control, fear, and fascination. Shows like Crime Junkie and My Favorite Murder don’t just entertain us; they create a sisterhood.

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