The Francesca Luca Show
Talk with Francesca influences those searching for new frontiers and pushing the boundaries. Together, we explore our world through the rabble rousers, change agents, big thinkers, and instigators of today to go beyond talking about it to making it happen. The show is feisty and fearless without being abrasive. We discuss hot topics in a provocative way with a say it like you mean it and no nonsense attitude.
Episodes
She was 71 years old. A grandmother. A respected woman in her community. And Salem decided she was a witch.
Tonight on The Francesca Luca Show, I’m joined by historian and author Daniel A. Gagnon, whose fascinating book, A Salem Witch: The Trial, Execution, and Exoneration of Rebecca Nurse, uncovers the disturbing story behind one of America’s most infamous miscarriages of justice.
What turned neighbors against ne...
There’s something unsettling about the love of your life who disappeared from your suddenly and then deciding they want a place in it again.Ghosting doesn’t just end a relationship, it leaves a question hanging in the air.
Why did you disappear?
And when that person comes back, you’re faced with a different question:
What makes you think you can simply walk back in?
Because time may have passed. You may have heale...
Sarah has performed her own stories before live audiences while using music to help other people safely explore theirs.
Those may sound like two very different careers, but for Sarah, they come from the same place: a deep belief in music’s ability to reveal what we’re feeling, connect us to one another, and sometimes reach the places words JUST can’t.
In An Accidental Career, Hal Eisner chronicles his life from his early years in Pittsburgh and Dallas to a remarkable 43-year tenure as a television news reporter in Los Angeles. His journey through radio and television showcases his dedication to journalism, earning him numerous accolades, including a Lifetime Achievement Aware from the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California. After a severe injury from a drun...
Having received a monumental amount of online vitriol for amplifying the stories of abuse victims, Alia Dastagir joins us Wednesday night at 8pm on The Francesca Luca Show on 95.9 WATD FM. She is an award winning journalist, former USA Today Reporter and author of “To Those Who Have Confused You to be a Person”. Alia published a story as part of an investigation of child sexual abuse. In response, she was subjected to a...
Third-quarter 2023 Google Trends indicated a 2,400 percent increase in searches for “AI girlfriends.” Millions of people are currently in what they consider to be serious relationships with AI. Thousands have engaged in ceremonial weddings with their AI companions and stay as faithful to them as they would a human partner. Could legal marriage to AI be far off?
In The Friend Machine, Victoria Hetherington de...
The Kissinger family, from the outside, looked like the American dream. Big Catholic family, beautiful home in the Chicago suburbs, vacations, country clubs, and success. But behind the doors of that home were secrets, untreated mental illness, alcoholism, silence, and two suicides. Meg’s book isn’t just a memoir, it’s an unflinching look at how silence, stigma and systems collide.
You think you understand domestic violence. What if men, yes, men are a significant portion of victims, even in the most extreme caes? This conversation goes there. No bs. No easy answers.
Evelyn Resh is a certified sexuality counselor and certified mid-wife who has been in practice for more than 20 years. With her integrative approach to women’s health, she helps women to create the life and sex life they desire by looking at their relationship to pleasure in general. With a refreshing and disarming sense of humor, she explores the importance of all types of pleasure from a simple coffee break to mind blowing ...
Rick Manabat is a seasoned sexual addiction therapist known for cutting through shame and getting to the real story underneath compulsive behavior. His work focuses on helping individuals and couples understand the emotional drivers behind addiction—whether it’s trauma, attachment wounds, or unmet needs—and guiding them toward accountability, healing, and healthier intimacy. Rather than labeling people, he looks a...
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