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Fresh Conversations with L'Oreal Thompson Payton: is not being perfect actually the secret to life?

L’Oreal Thompson Payton is an award-winning journalist and the author of Stop Waiting for Perfect: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone and Into Your Power. Her personal essays, feature stories and celebrity interviews have been published in esteemed media outlets such as Essence, Fortune, SELF, Shondaland, and Well + Good, among others.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Divorce But Were Afraid to Ask: A Fresh Start for Your Home, Heart, Sexuality, and Relationships During and After a Divorce

On this episode of The Divorce Season from A Fresh Story, we’re covering everything you need to know to help start fresh after a divorce, including how to refresh your home, jump into dating and relationships, reclaim your sexuality, process the divorce with your children, and manage the grief of your relationship changing and ending.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Divorce But Were Afraid to Ask: How to Manage Your Mental Health During a Divorce

On this episode of The Divorce Season from A Fresh Story, we’re covering everything you need to know to help manage your own mental health during the transition to divorce. Divorce can take a real toll on your mental health, so we’ve asked the experts for ways in which we can process, evolve, and nurture ourselves during this time.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: How to Support Someone Experiencing Pregnancy and Infant Loss

It’s no surprise that everything we do a Fresh Starts boils down to the concept of support. This is especially true when it comes to supporting our loved ones experiencing pregnancy and infant loss. As we talked to these amazing women and experts, we asked them: how can we support someone experiencing loss? What should we say? What shouldn’t we say? We have answers for you!

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Miscarriage Stories

As we learned throughout producing this season, miscarriage is incredibly common, and yet we’re not talking about it. So, we’re going to talk about it. We talked to four women with vastly different miscarriage stories about their experience with pregnancy loss, and how it impacted the way they moved forward through life.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: The Experts Speak

It’s no surprise that we’re all about searching out support from Experts when people are experiencing hard life moments, so we turned to the Experts to chat about miscarriage - and why we don’t talk about miscarriage. We asked all of the Experts we talked to the same two questions: how common is miscarriage, and if it is so common, why are we not talking about it more?

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Layla’s Story

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Laura Malcolm, the founder of Give InKind, shares the story of her daughter Layla, whom was stillborn on November 11, 2013.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: CJ’s Story

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Ashley Spivey shares the story of her son CJ, who was stillborn on November 26th, 2020. Thank you for sharing CJ with us, Ashley. We will remember him always.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Charlie’s Story

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Jena Graham is a college friend, a teacher, a mother and wife, and a loss mom. Her son Charlie was born January 2020 and died 3 days later. She shares her son Charlie’s story and life with us.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Willa’s Story

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Nikki Dinki is a chef, author, mom, TV Host, and comedy writer. I was first introduced to Nikki when she was on Food Network Star. Her daughter Willa was been stillborn, on her due date, November 25th, 2013.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Fox’s Story

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Rae Hoffman Jager is a poet and writer, yoga teacher, former doula, and currently, in nursing school. Rae’s son Fox was stillborn on Thanksgiving Day, 2021.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Nelle and Iris’ Stories

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. Anna Burgess Yang is a freelance content marketer and journalist in the suburbs of Chicago. Anna came back on A Fresh Story to share her raw, honest, and beautiful story of her daughters, Nelle Claudia Dej and Iris Madeline Hnub.

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Conversations on Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Clark’s Story

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and we’re honored to hold space for these profound stories. We talked to Alex Mooney about the loss of her son, Clark William Mooney in 2018 and how his death was the impetus for her major career change, and how she honors his legacy to support other loss families.

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Maddie Eisenhart & the Heartbreak of Friend Breakups

Why are friendship breakups so heartbreaking and hard to untangle? We talked to our dear, wonderful, and witchy friend Maddie Eisenhart about her fresh starts in life, including getting married young, parenthood, career changes, and untangling herself from a co-dependent work relationship.

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Jennifer Adell & the Stories of Our Skin

As a licensed esthetician for more than twenty years, Jennifer Adell has fostered a unique practice that incorporates ancient energy medicine principles with state-of-the-art technology. She has a modern outlook that fuses tried and true techniques with the undeniable benefits of science.

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Nicole Ryan & the Celebration of Little Wins

We chatted with SiriusXM talk show host, entrepreneur, podcaster, and mom, Nicole Ryan. What happens when a fresh start is forced upon us in life? After surviving a car accident, Nicole had to rebuild her body, mind, and life, and start fresh with a grateful perspective on life.

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Laura High & the Comedy of Our Chaos

Laura High is a New York actor and comedian. Laura has been featured on the New York Comedy Festival and won the 'Broadly Funny' Division at the 360 Stand Up Festival. Laura is a rising content creator. Laura has gone viral several times on TikTok and her following has grown exponentially in a short amount of time. Laura writes, produces, and edits all of her own work. 

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