Verimour Speaks is hosted by Dawn Keegan cofounder of the dating app Verimour and the nonprofit app Hero Harbor. Though each app has a different audience, they both have the same mission. Loneliness and suicide are at a record high. We’ve more ways to communicate, yet in our darkest moments often feel we’ve no one to turn to. The conversations recorded here show you're not alone, and even the strongest, most talented among us have their bad days. But instead of avoiding the pain, we strive t ...
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S02E28 - Michael Sodini Founder of Walk the Talk America Part Two
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Despite his family's three decades in the gun manufacturing business, Michael bills himself and the most ungun gun guy. Listen in as we cover everything from guns to social media. Mission Statement Reduce incidents of suicide by firearms, gun negligence through education and proactive programs that identify risks, raise awareness, and provide solut…
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S02E27 - Michael Sodini Founder of Walk the Talk America Part One
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Despite his family's three decades in the gun manufacturing business, Michael bills himself and the most ungun gun guy. Listen in as we cover everything from guns to social media. Mission Statement Reduce incidents of suicide by firearms, gun negligence through education and proactive programs that identify risks, raise awareness, and provide solut…
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S02E26 - Is There Any Value In Working To Get Your Ex Back?
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Repurposed content from the relationship segment of the Honestly Dawn podcast. Ahmed and I talk about the trend I was seeing in angst ridden individuals who were posting questions on Reddit and Quora about how to get their exs back. We consider the question from both personal experience as well as practicality. --- Support this podcast: https://pod…
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https://medium.com/@verimour/how-to-see-yourself-as-sexy-21ec1c66957a For as long as I can remember I’ve had what a friend once referred to as “White Woman’s Syndrome”. It’s that inability to step outside our heads and see ourselves in the senuous and sexy way others do. Because of that we are not comfortable in our bodies, so we don’t swing our hi…
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S02E24 - The Past, The Future, Depression and Finding Your Passion
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A lot has changed in the 23 years since I wrote the paper highlighted in this episode. While I still have challenges, their nature and degree are very different. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support
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S02E23 - Why I Love Mondays and You Can Too
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For many years I was like the rest of the world rushing my life from weekend to weekend always trying to savor those precious final Sunday night or holiday hours and dreading the sound of the alarm that signaled a new work week. Even then I remember commenting on the irony of it and how unfortunate it all was given how delicate our existence can be…
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S02E22 - Dr. Ming Wang, Author of From Darkness to Sight: A Journey from Hardship to Healing
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Repurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Dr. Wang tells of growing up in communist China where no one was allowed to move from one city to another without the governments permission and how his mind and world view shifted completely upon coming to the US. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show…
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S02E21 - Boris Boric Part Two TBI, Coma, Death Sentence and the Long Road to Recovery
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Repurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Hear Boris tell of his second near death experience where he wakes from a coma to learn he wasn't even supposed to live, much less walk again. And hear what seem like a surprising revelation about his attitude regarding the entire experience. --- Support this podcast: https://pod…
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S02E20 - Boris Boric Part One Child Survivor of the Croatian War of Independence
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Repurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Boris is one of the most inspiring people I have ever met. Having survived not one, but two cataclysmic life events, he now uses what he learned to change lives himself. In this first part, hear him tell of tripping over dead bodies at the age of 6 after being separated from his …
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Today's episode is me hoping to help you through my own raw honesty about the challenges of being an overachieving work in progress and the stupid shit we do that doesn't have to be the end of the world. The apology is mostly in the confession, that he'll never hear, as I don't ever actually say I'm sorry. But if it's the thought that counts then h…
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S02E18 - Mustafa How a Muslim Taught Me the Meaning of Christmas
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This interview was recorded Christmas Day 2015 in Austin, Texas. When I say the meaning of Christmas here, I'm referring to the most basic human traits of love, compassion and pain both physical and emotional. I know that many people still experience a great deal of anger toward the Muslim community. My aim isn't to comment or pass judgment on eith…
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S02E17 - Kerry Cohen Author of Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
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Repurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcasts. Kerry is a prolific writer and speaks very candidly about her addictions to sex and alcohol. She has written several other books including: Lush: A Memoir Dirty Little Secrets The Truth of Memoir Easy --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeak…
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It's an age old cliche the shake our heads moments when we look at the opposite sex and wonder how we can both be the same species. Could it be simpler than we let ourselves believe? A repurposed interview from Honestly Dawn, Ahmed and Dawn explore the possibility that maybe it doesn't have to be so difficult. --- Support this podcast: https://podc…
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S02E15 - Debra Gwartney Author of Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
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Imagine your two teenage daughters living on the streets where you can't find them and can only imagine their fate. In this repurposed interview from the Honestly Dawn podcast, author Debra Gwartney talks about the mixed bag of fear, guilt, anger and hurt. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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S02E14 - When is a Dick Pick Appropriate?
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Repurposed content from Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn, I wasn't sure what to say when Ahmed asked me to talk about this subject, but you can believe I came up with something. Enlightening conversation as always. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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S02E13 - Thomas Cook Talks Parenting, Drug Abuse and Life Changes
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Repurposed content from Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn, my friend Thomas talks about growing up in a very dysfunctional home where drugs and alcohol were the norm and what it took to go from drug addict and dealer to respected businessman. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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S02E12 - The Secret to goal Setting for Maximum Results
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Repurposed from Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn, Hector and I share our similar but somewhat different views on the difference between "just do it" and "of course, what else would I do?". --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support
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S02E11 - Anthony Venn-Brown Author of A Life of Unlearning - a Preacher's Struggle With His Homosexuality, Church and Faith
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More repurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcast days. Venn-Brown talks very candidly about growing up gay in an ultra religious Australian family and the inordinate lengths he went to trying to get God to "fix" him, before tragedy helped him find a place of acceptance with his life and his church. --- Support this podcast: …
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S02E10 - Female Satisfaction in the Bedroom
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As women are we doing all we can to ensure our wants and needs are met in the bedroom? Do we have any culpability at all in our dissatisfaction or should our partners come to the game fully informed and prepared? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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S02E09 - The Social Media Monster, Faithful Friend or Pure Evil?
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Anyone who knows me well can tell you I have a very dim view of our current social media environment. And my distaste for it has grown exponentially since this episode was recorded in 2016. That year alone, nearly 45,000 Americans took their own lives and there is more than enough anecdotal if not outright causal examples of the role the social med…
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S02E08 - Profanity and Loss of Control
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Additional reused content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn podcast days. Hear Hector and I talk about words, how we use them, the power they give and the power they take away. Hear him tell how language is handled in his home of small children and what ground rules keep things running smoothly in an enormously hectic but loving household. -…
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S02E07 - Confidence, Vanity or Narcicissm
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Repurposed content from the Honestly Speaking/Honestly Dawn Podcasts. The words we use especially in the way of labeling ourselves or others can have an incredibly powerful, long lasting and too often extremely detrimental impact on our lives. In this episode Hector and I attempt to make a semantic distinction between the labels of Confidence, Vani…
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S02E06 - FBI Negotiator Gary Noesner Author of Stalling For Time
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This interview is a couple years old, but the information is still relevant and interesting as Gary gives us insight into the troubled minds behind some of our country's most memorable events. Gary was the lead negotiator at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. He also took an advisory roll in the making of the recent mini series recounting…
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S02E05 - What If You Could Hear Your Lover's Thoughts?
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Additional content reused from the Honestly Dawn podcast. Communication between partners is so often a large source of frustration. In this episode Ahmed and I consider whether knowing what your partner is thinking would help or hinder your private time. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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E02E04 - Special Guest Katie McKenna Chats About Compliments
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Anyone who listened to episode 3 knows how much I love Katie. In an effort to not let some great previous content go to waste, I'm doing minor edits and relaunching select episodes from the honestly dawn/honestly speaking podcast. Please forgive any bleed across shows in production and try to focus on the main content itself. As always Katie is a t…
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S02E03 - MLK Holiday and the Confessions of a Closet Non-Racist
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My usual launch schedule has been shot to hell recently, but this is a topic I didn't want to pass on and today was a good day to at least open the door to the discussion. What follows is the text version of the blog post I share while recording. Confessions of closet non-racist - Originally written July 2016 When I was in elementary and middle sch…
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S02E02 - Sam Tarell, Self Ascribed Feminist, Visionary Thinker and CEO of Hoop Brothers
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For many of us, the recent hectic and often disheartening holiday season, had us wondering if humans are unrecoverable as a species. However, today I offer you candid conversation between two dreamers who not only believe there is hope, but each have a plan for how to help. Introducing Sam Tarell, CEO of Hoop Brothers and unabashed big thinker. For…
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S02E01 - What if it were me? Compassion, humanity, and walking that mile.
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Shorter than 10 minutes, this episode introduces Tuesday's guest, allows me a little personal introspection and describes some upcoming format changes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support
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S01E09- Victor Perez and Josh's Benches for Awareness
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Approximately 7 months ago, Victor's best friend since childhood committed suicide by gunshot. In this episode, Victor talks about being a twenty something in today's world and shares with us the nonprofit foundation he helped start in honor of his friend.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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S01E8 - Silencing the Noise, My Christmas Wish For You
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The holidays can be at the same time both exhilarating and infuriating. All the extra activity and pressure can bring out the best and worst in us. In a traditionally short Saturday episode, I share my insight while giving you a small preview into Tuesday's emotional topic and interview. heroharbor.org/get-it verimour.com/get-it --- Support this po…
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S01E07 - Kathleen Rothenberger, second generation breast cancer survivor
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What would you do if suddenly diagnosed with the same disease you'd seen your mother suffer with for more than 3 decades? Barely 6 months ago, Kathy was diagnosed with stage one breast cancer and had to answer that very question. Tune in to hear her amazing story and what you might find as her surprising decision.www.kathleenrothenberger.com--- Sup…
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S01E06 - Tony McGehee - Host of Emerging Entrepreneur Podcast
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In this episode, Tony talks about what it takes to put a dream in action, serving others as a form of motivation and how he gets his groove back when he finds himself giving into inertia.@emergingentrepreneurspodcasthttps://linktr.ee/emergingentrepreneurspodcast--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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In this episode I talk about both my regret and those of my father by relating stories from our military service.Additionally, I offer listeners a challenge designed to help you turn regret into something helpful.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support…
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S01E04 - Dating coach T. Anthony of Online Dating Superpowers in Cincinnati
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Hear coach and I talk about the current state of dating, how apps hurt or help and what Verimour is doing to solve the problem.https://www.instagram.com/onlinedatingsuperpowers/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support
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After my divorce in 2015, I did what seemed to me the time management savvy thing and took to dating apps. It didn't take long to realize what an awful mess that world is. Personal and intimate relationships have arguably the highest requirement for honest communication and these apps were promoting anything but. And that's not even taking into con…
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S01E02 - Katie McKenna Author of How to Get Run Over by a Truck
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Once again I'm pleased to be speaking with this dynamic and empowering woman. Hear her tell about taking her worst day ever and turning it into a life of amazing joy and abundance. I've included links to my previous conversation with Katie as well as her guest blog post and all the places you can learn more about her life and work.http://honestlyda…
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S01E01 - How Understanding Communication Styles Can Radically Improve Our Relationships
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The books I reference are listed here:That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships - 2011You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation - 2013by Deborah Tannen--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/verimourspeaks/support
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In the pilot episode of the Verimour Speaks Podcast, your host, Dawn Keegan, provides a brief introduction to our content, philosophy and a short list of upcoming guests including authors: Katie McKenna - How to Get Run Over By a Truck Gary Noesner - Stalling for Time Tim Lefins - Flying Colors Debra Gwartney - Live Through This Kerry Cohen - Loose…
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