S3 E4 - Jessica Kafle- Sari, Not Sorry!

Jessica is the host of the podcast "Relationship Roundtable" and she is speaking up and speaking out about a lot of things not talked about in Nepali Culture and Nepali families such as arranged marriages, child abuse, mental illness and suicide. Jessica manages to learn and grow and not be defined by the abuses that have happened to her, she is here to share how we all can learn and grow from our traumas and ends with some incredibletromedy!

Reach out to Nancy Norton:https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Check out Jessica Kafle's Podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBEAIgJguE

Need support with Suicidal intervention?https://988lifeline.org/

Post-Traumatic Growth:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/post-traumatic-growth

Therapeutic Humor: Association of Applied and Therapeutic Humor

https://www.aath.org/

S3 E3 - Mandy Simonson - Laughing at Cancer and pretty much everything else too. Mandy is a former police officer who once left her gun in a Starbucks.. She is a power hitter comedian who kicked breast cancer to the curb, laughing all the way.

Reach out to Nancy: https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Follow Mandy on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/musings_ala_mandy/

https://www.instagram.com/latetothegamepod/

Resources:

https://www.breastcancer.org/

S3 E2 - Rohini Kanniganti, MD - Integrating Science and the Sacred - Part 2, explores practical ways to cultivate joy, find compassion and peace. Packed with ideas and references. Make micro-choices and celebrate them and noticing the big and small miracles in everyday life and end of life.

Reach out to Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Links to some resources mentioned on the episode:

The Adventure of Grief: Dr Geoff Warburton at TEDxBrighton

https://youtu.be/juET61B1P98?si=5fjl0F9xy5fyEsUB

Anita Moorjani's book about her Near Death Experience

and healing from cancer. https://www.anitamoorjani.com/products

Tessa Carolyn - Rapid Resolution Therapy

https://www.tessa-carolyn.com/

Rick Hanson's Book: The Buddha's Brain

https://rickhanson.com/writings/books/buddhas-brain/

S3 E1 - Rohini Kanniganti, MD - MSPH, HMDC, LOVE, JOY, POET, MAMA- Integrating Science, Art and the Sacred. Rohini Kanniganti is a board certified hospice and family medicine doctor who shares vulnerably about her own fears about waiting for possible cancer diagnosis, as well as being triggers rising up while awaiting an approval from the DEA and how feeling her fear fully as energy and as a part of love itself helps her embrace what comes.

Reach out with questions, answers, to be a guest or curiosity about Nancy's comedy shows: https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Connect with Rohini Kanniganti: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohini-kanniganti-md-msph-hmdc-845aa314/

Some content and resources mentioned on this episode;

Cultivating Joy Retreats;

https://menla.org/retreat/cultivating-joy-a-ketamine-assisted-mindfulness-retreat-2/

Internal Family Systems:

https://ifs-institute.com/about-us/richard-c-schwartz-phd

S2 E36 - Joshua Emerson - Bad Indian - is a Diné comedian who produced the Colorado Native Comedy Show and named his poignant documentary - Bad Indian after the song by the same name by Dead Pioneers. Joshua shares his beautiful journey of healing resentments with his mom as they bonded and laughed while going to college together and then how humor was integral to his upbringing and how it helped him manage his grief when she died.

Help support the documentary -https://seedandspark.com/fund/bad-indian#story

Listen to the song Bad Indian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjUUZxozCic

Listen to Joshua's Comedy and interview on Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio: https://www.cpr.org/2024/12/20/colorado-matters-9th-holiday-extravaganza-see-some-of-our-favorite-moments/

Learn about Four Winds Indian Council: https://www.fwaic.org/

Learn about Creative Nations: https://www.creative-nations.org/

Connect with us, email or see comedy show dates here: https://www.nancynorton.tv/

S2 E35 - Craig Jordan - Outside the Hundred Acre Wood - Craig is a budding comedian who does the most incredible Winnie the Pooh impression. In this free flowing conversation we go on a journey beyond the hundred acre wood into other dimensions, prisons and escapes. Craig has experienced it all and is using his gifts and experiences to help others and himself cope with life challenges.

Learn about the nonprofit helping to change lives with music;

https://achildssong.org/

Connect with Craig Jordan: https://www.instagram.com/tiger_pastry/

Reach out to Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Thanks for listening and let us know any feedback you think would be helpful. Thank you for being on this co-healing journey of peer to peer sharing.

S2 E34 - AJ Finney - Ketamine vs Keta-Mean

AJ Finney is a comedian and podcaster who relays his vulnerable experiences with Ketamine treatments and even shares an audio recording of one of his scariest and most intense experiences ever that ironically lead to a great sense of peace. Finney also shares how humor came naturally to him as a child and how comedy has become the one thing that will not leave him and how important it is to him to leave his audience with a message about sharing joy.

This is peer to peer sharing, we are not experts on Ketamine treatment. Talk to your doctor to see if Ketamine could benefit you.

Reach out to give feedback, ask questions or give answers... we love answers :-)

https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Contact our guest: https://www.ajfinney.com/

Learn about Ketamine treatment-

https://www.webmd.com/depression/features/what-does-ketamine-do-your-brain

S2 E33 - Jose Macall - 911, What's Your Emergency? Jose is a comedian and a Paramedic dispatcher and a former 911 operator and for him, comedy is about defanging something intimidating. We worked together recently on Nurses Off the Charts and on this episode, we get to hear his brilliant comedy bit about immigration which is Tromedy at its best!

Reach out to Jose Macall: https://www.instagram.com/comicfromthevoid

Reach out to Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Learn more about stressors of 911 operators-

https://www.911training.net/911-unique-stressors

https://icma.org/articles/pm-magazine/management-911-emergency-dispatchers