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Naomi Mumbi Kiarie (28) is interviewed by Gillian [no last name given] (no age given) about her experiences growing up and her career as a nurse.

Joy Ford-Harris (28) talks with Laurie Rackas (64), who works at Child Care Aware, an advocacy organization with which Joy is associated. Joy shares her experiences as a single working mother who juggles care for her son with her work....

One Small Step partners Jill Beebe (73) and Timothy "Tim" Huck (46) discuss the challenges of finding people with whom they can discuss their political beliefs, as well as the challenges of raising children and family, and coming together as...

What made my mom who she is now and how that is carrying over to the next generation.

Deanna E. Beasley (39) talks with friend Shawn Trivette (38) about their shared experience of untraditional parenthood, Deanna's pregnancy and donor sperm choices, Shawn's decision to foster teenage children, their friendship, and their expectations, fears, and excitement for the future.

The Great Thanksgiving Listen over Facetime. Ayden interviews his grandmother Cheri about growing up with a single mother and being a single mother. My grandmother curses.

Spouses Jolene Croasmun (60) and John Brown (65) talk about how they both came to live in Salt Lake City, their journeys as single parents, and first meeting each other. Jolene and John talk about what they enjoy doing together...

Jessica Straczowski (55) tells about her childhood growing up in Germany, and raising her sons in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Brittany Marks (26) talks with her friend Pamela Maxey (37) about her experiences navigating childcare for her son, both in her years as a young student, and more recently during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today I interviewed my Grandmother Julie “GJ” (and her dog Lucy) about her childhood and time as a mother and grandmother.

Melody Lin (65) interviewed by her husband (Charles) Loring Woodman (75) about her childhood in Taiwan, marrying an American man and moving to Southern California, having a child with him, their divorce, her being a single mother, meeting and marrying...

Pamela Sparkman (43) is interviewed by Robin Sparkman (44) about her children Brett and Savannah, her life and career path, her mother's inspiration and sense of adventure, advice and hopes for her family's future.

Nancy Kittle, 82, tells her friend Susan Doering, 49, about her childhood with her single mother, who came from a wealthy meat-packing family, in Santa Barbara, CA, her education at Sarah Lawrence College and other experiences in New York City...

One Small Step participants Michael Carbiener (52) and Lisa Smith (51) talk about their military service, growing up poor, racism, and their different political values.

Laurie Victor Kay (43) interviews her mother, Carolyn Owen Anderson (69), about her life growing up, her experience as a mother, and her career.

Hazel Glover (77) tells her daughter Wanda Glover (45) about her experiences raising Wanda as a single mother, and Hazel tells other pregnant women not to have abortions.

Lisa McGahey Veglahn, 46, interviews her mom Ann R. Smith, 85, about growing up during the Depression as a first generation Yugoslavian-American, and about what her mom is most proud of in her life.

Gloria Dunn-Violin (81) speaks with her husband, Donald Violin (87) about the similarities in the ways they grew up, both as first generation Jewish-Americans, and the way they came into one another's lives later in life.

Carolina is a UMass student interviewing Susy as a part of a Public Health class project focusing on connection. This interview touches on Susy's experience when choosing to become a mom, adopting her son from Peru, and facing motherhood head...

In this interview A.J. talks about how having a kid when he was 20 years old changed his life.