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The United States of Us
Two friends. Almost forty years of shared history. Two lives shaped by different choices, different experiences, and different political paths. Yet beneath every divergence, one truth endured. Love never left. This stands as proof of what still exists beneath the noise. Hear honest conversations about politics, identity, aging, relationships, healing, and the unseen forces that shape human life. Nothing is off limits. Nothing is scripted. Witness what becomes possible when two people choose…
Episodes
- The United States of Us
"Marriage Is Not Consent" | Marital Rape and Healing
Content note: this episode includes a first-person account of sexual violence within a marriage, told without graphic detail, and a mention of not wanting to…
- The United States of Us
"Is This What It Feels Like When You Lose Your Mind?" | The 7 Stages of Soul Alchemy
Tammy's wife said something while they organized the closets. It triggered her completely, and it had nothing to do with her wife. She cried until it was out…
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"I Would Earn the Love" | Where People-Pleasing Starts | Ep 17
Wendy Peterson had to earn being around. Watch the kids, do the dishes, be a good girl, cause no static. "I would earn the love. I would be okay." Wendy is an…
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"I’m a Badass" | The Seven Deaths You Live Through | Ep. 16
Some of the deaths you live through don't come with a funeral. Lori opens this one by reading a piece she found called The 7 Deaths You Experience Without…
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"Good girls aren’t angry. They don’t misbehave" | Anger Conditioning in Women | Ep. 15
What happens when you stop performing the version of yourself that other people approved of? Angelica Faith joins Tammy and Lori for a conversation about…
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"I Don’t Work for Money. I Work for God." | Oil Painter Nadja Marks-Shafton | Ep. 14
Nadja Marks-Shafton doesn't work for money. She works for God. And she says that's the actual source of abundance. On this episode of the spiritual podcast The…
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"It Was No Longer Safe to Be Vulnerable" | Childhood Wounds in Men | Ep. 13
Therapist, somatic practitioner, and 15-year Navy veteran Nick joins Tammy and Lori for an honest conversation about healing the whole person — body, mind, and…
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"I'm Good" The Two-Word Lie Men Tell | The Prices Men Pay | Ep. 12
Ask a man how he's doing and you'll almost always hear "I'm good." But are we, really? In Episode 12, Tammy and Lori sit down with Norman Robinson — a…
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"I’m Not Worthy of Being Loved Just Because I Exist" | The Victimhood Loop | Ep. 11
What happens when you finally stop replaying the story of what was done to you — and start asking what it's here to teach you? In Episode 11 of The United…
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"Because of Me" | The Child Who Changed Her Mother’s Life | Ep. 10
Some weeks the world moves so fast you lose track of what's real. This is one of those weeks. This time it's just the two of us. Tammy and Lori, at the table…
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"I Didn’t Want to Admit I Was Crumbling" | Lis Doggett on Burnout and Leaving Work She Loved | Ep. 9
Lis Doggett built a career she loved. Then something broke. Tammy and Lori sit down with Lis Doggett, a purpose and leadership coach who spent more than 20…
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"He Looked at Me and Said Thank You" | Telling My Son I Was Going to Rehab | Ep. 8
Jamey LeVier had his first drink at six years old. He spent the next four decades drinking. Then one morning at 4 AM he made himself a promise. This week Tammy…
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"We Talk About Plants and the Weather" | 8 Years of Family Silence | Ep. 7
Tammy and Lori are back for Episode 7, picking up right where they are. This one opens with a reading about the woman who chooses herself, then moves into the…
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"I Feel Like I’m Caterpillar Goo" | Two Friends, 35 Years, and Not Knowing What’s Next | Ep. 6
Lori opens this one by reading a piece called Christ Consciousness Is an Inner Awakening by Zachary Fisher of the Way of Being Foundation. Tammy responds with…
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"I Refuse to Work Until I’m Dead" | Leaving Corporate America | Ep. 4
Lori spent 28 years in banking. Tammy filed for bankruptcy and divorce on the same day in 2009. Three decades into a friendship that started behind the same…
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"I Have Felt Alone" | Grief After Losing the People Who Loved You | Ep. 5
Something has gone wrong in the water we are drinking. You feel it. We feel it. Every headline and every comment section is designed to make you believe the…
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"She Didn’t Speak to Me for 13 Years" | Estrangement After Coming Out | Ep. 3
Episode 3 of The United States of Us landed on the night of the Blood Moon lunar eclipse, which means we were already a little undone before we even started…
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"I Have Zero Regrets" | Opposite Sides of Covid, Still Friends | Ep. 2
Covid broke a lot of things. Tammy and Lori are here to talk about what it almost broke between them, and what held. They weren't on the same side of the…
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"And I Still Love Them" | Losing People to Political Division | Ep. 1
Tammy and Lori sit down for their first recorded conversation in years—and it goes exactly where you'd expect: deep, uncomfortable, honest, and necessary. They…