OneVOICE Podcast

Joy, Self-Trust, and Learning to Let Life All The Way In

Through raw conversations with her younger selves, Megan Margherio invites us into the messy, real-time process of healing and reclaiming safety, worthiness, and her voice in her memoir Everwoven. She says, “This book is both a reckoning with the versions of me I repeatedly abandoned along the way and a reclamation of my identity. It is the story of recognizing that what felt like personal failure was often a survival adaptation. It is my way of honoring the versions of me that were forced to stay silent and the version I am today that is learning how to live beyond it all.” Join Megan and Nicole as they discuss joy, self-trust, healing modalities, parenting, and everything in between.   Megan's Substack: https://meganmargherio.substack.com

I Just Need A Mom!

Special Guest: Elizabeth Berget joins us to discuss her recently released book "Love Like A Mother: How The Sacred Work of Motherhood Reveals the Maternal Heart of God" More info: elizabethberget.com

Breaking The Silence on Sibling Sexual Trauma & Abuse

Jane Epstein and Diane Tarantini join us again but this time TOGETHER to discuss the upcoming "Sibling Sexual Trauma & Abuse Conference:
 Breaking the Silence" to be held on June 23, 2026 at Long Island University, NY. A one-day, lived-experience-led gathering bringing survivors, parents, practitioners, researchers, and students together to move this field forward — safely, collaboratively, and with integrity. Details and registration: https://www.5waves.org/conference

 

"Raising Safe Siblings" is an online course equipping parents and child safety professionals to recognize, prevent, and address sibling harm: psychological, physical, and/or sexual. View the first module for free here: https://www.toughtopicsmom.com/raising-safe-siblings.

In a story that reads like a fairy tale, The Brave Knight children's book helps kids recognize what "grooming" is--the process a predator (or bully) uses to gain the trust of a potential victim and sometimes their family. The Brave Knight is available here: https://amzn.to/422QL7I.

Everyone Was Silent: A memoir--shows how Sibling Sexual Trauma and Abuse (SSTA) can happen in a middle-class family in America. https://amzn.to/4tE05ev

 

"I Feel Real Guilty," a memoir : https://a.co/d/01PEu135

The Journey of Healing in Motherhood

Special Guest: Melanie Barton is a Survivor, Advocate and Forensic Interviewer. This is her 3rd appearance on the OneVOICE Podcast (2022 "Victory Over Pelvic Pain", 2024 "Loving and Being Loved After Trauma")

Justice and the Power of Telling

Guest: Darlene Lekowski is an Amazon best-selling author, speaker, and business leader who
transformed decades of silence into a powerful platform for truth, healing, and advocacy.
After fifty years of silence surrounding the Sibling Sexual Trauma and Abuse (SSTA) she
endured as a child, Darlene found her voice and chose to stand in her truth—ultimately
prevailing in a civil lawsuit brought against her by her own brother.
Her memoir is titled "Shattering Silence: A Story of Survival, Justice and the Power of Telling
the Truth" and website is darlene-lekowski.com

Compassionate Parenting (and reparenting) of a Spicy One

Guest: Mary Van Geffen is the international parenting coach for Spicy Ones, as well as a Spicy One herself.  Author of “Parenting a Spicy One: A Compassionate Guide for Raising a Deep-Feeling and Wonderfully Strong-Willed Kid”. Mary helps parents cultivate connection with their strong-willed kid, teaching that you can't extend compassion to your child if you withhold it from yourself. When you change, everything shifts—old patterns lose their grip, love becomes unconditional, and boundaries grow flexible yet strong. more info and ro pre-order: maryvangeffen.com

The Predatory Web of Sextortion Targeting Young Male Athletes

Special Guest: Dan Wetzel, ESPN Senior Writer. 

Link to his latest article: https://www.espn.com/high-school/story/_/id/45852691/fbi-extortion-online-youth

Link to Take It Down: https://takeitdown.ncmec.org

Sibling Sexual Abuse, Healing and Forgiveness

Special Guest: Brinn Langdale, sibling sexual abuse survivor turned licensed therapist,
and author of the just released memoir "Everything Makes Perfect Sense: A Journey Through Sibling Sexual Abuse, Healing and Forgiveness". Brinn's mission is to help those who’ve experienced childhood trauma know that everything they do makes perfect sense and that healing is possible. brinnlangdale.com

Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery

Guest: Mallary Tenore Tarpley is a journalism and writing professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The Dallas Morning News. She is the author of the new book “Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery”.  

More info: mallarytenoretarpley.com & https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Slip/Mallary-Tenore-Tarpley/9781668035016

 

From Child Abuse to Gun Control Advocacy

Guest: Heidi Yewman is a gun control advocate, abuse survivor and author of her new memoir “Dumb Girl: A Journey from Childhood Abuse to Gun Control”, a raw, unflinching look at the long road from trauma to healing—reflects the heart of her life’s work: to foster empathy, break silence, and create change. Heidi’s commitment to trauma advocacy began in 1999, when her former teacher and basketball coach, Dave Sanders, was killed in the Columbine High School massacre. Since then, she has spent over two decades elevating the stories of those affected by gun violence and trauma, believing that honest conversations can lead to lasting solutions. Heidi is an award-winning director and producer of "Behind the Bullet", a documentary that follows the lives of people who have shot and killed in self-defense. She also authored Beyond the Bullet: Personal Stories of Gun Violence Aftermath and has written for USA Today, Ms. Magazine, The Seattle Times, The Oregonian, and The Huffington Post. Her widely recognized four-part series, My Month with a Gun, was featured in Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The Denver Post. Learn more at heidiyewman.com