Ep.1562: Civil Discourse and Ep.1563: Late Blooming Gen-X Weirdo
May 24, 2023
Hosted by Kathryn Zox
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Episode Description
Kathryn interviews Milan Kordestani.“I’m just saying.” These three little words that tend to follow an intense debate are a signal that someone has given up on listening or being understood. They’ve dug into their position, and there will be no budging – an unfortunate symptom of living in a divided world. The lack of civil discourse and constructive conversations motivated the 24-year-old, 3x social entrepreneur Milan Kordestani to found The Doe – an anonymous digital publication promoting open-minded discussions and restoring civil discourse. In a world fueled by arguments and outrage, he offers insight and tools to navigate necessary difficult conversations, offering a much-needed infusion of kindness in an increasingly contentious society. He has written for numerous online publications, including Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur.com, ThriveGlobal, and other platforms. He regularly covers topics in entrepreneurship, self-help, startup culture, the environment, leadership and media.Kathryn also interviews Author, Editor-in-Chief Oldster Magazine Sari Botton.In a series of candid, reflective, sometimes humorous essays, Sari Botton describes coming to feminism and self-actualization as an older person, second (and third and fourth)chances-and how maybe it's never too late to find your way...assuming you're lucky enough to live long. Botton describes "finding" yourself later in life-after first getting lost in all the wrong places. As she discovers, the wrong places famously include her own self-suppression and misguided efforts to please others (mostly men). She’s a writer, editor, teacher and the editor-in-chief of Oldster Magazine, an online publication de-stigmatizing and normalizing aging by demonstrating that it's happening to everyone, of all ages, all the time. She edited the award winning anthology Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving & Leaving NY and its NY Times bestselling follow-up, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for NY. Her work has appeared in the NY Times, New York Magazine, The Sun,The Village Voice and Harpers Bazaar.
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Kathryn Zox is your Social Worker with a Microphone™. She’s informative and fun and opens up the mic with conversations that women need to hear. The Kathryn Zox Show is savvy and relationship oriented. Kathryn has counseled hundreds of women and their families who have suffered from eating disorders, addiction problems, marital, family and geriatric issues as well as persons coping with mental and physical disabilities. She combines her feminine perspective, social work skills and acting talents to produce a show that’s smart, upbeat, informative, sometimes irreverent, but never boring! Tune in Wednesdays at 7 AM/PT, 10 AM/ET to The Kathryn Zox Show be a part of Kathryn’s lively interviews on wealth, health, kids, divorce, travel, menopause, recipes, diets, and relationships. Serious and not so serious topics include hair loss, weight gain, face lifts, obsession, and rejection and even male contraception. That’s the Kathryn Zox Show, right here on VoiceAmerica Variety.
Kathryn Zox
Kathryn Zox is your social worker with a microphone™. She has been producing and hosting The Kathryn Zox Show Lunchtime Talk in Albany, NY for over five years and is excited about bringing her show from the capital of NY State to the Nation's Capital. She has also recently been a co-host and featured life expert on Doug Stephan's syndicated Good Day Show. Kathryn's interviewed thousands of guests including lifestyle experts, celebrities, authors, lawyers, psychiatrists, physicians and dieticians. At Albany Medical College she has trained doctors and medical students to communicate effectively with their patients. She's an actor who can be seen on the Sopranos and Law and Order and even admits to modeling for AARP! She has Masters' Degrees in Social Work and Counseling Psychology and is a graduate of the New School of Radio and Television. Much background for her show comes from traveling the world and raising three boys now in their twenties - a rock star, an actor and a film maker. There's also one ex-husband, one boyfriend, two brothers and an aging mom!
