2020 Did It to Me

Throughout the 2020s, Kevin Taffe has grappled with fear over the pandemic, breaking bad habits and increasing his intentionality around connecting with others. He also started a group in Conyers called Courageous Conversations Rockdale to promote interracial dialogue on racial issues in his community. 

Kevin’s 2020 journey starts with life on the “hamster wheel,” transforms him with the opportunity to reset, and is moving...

Dorie Griggs shares how 2020 brought her a new career - hospital chaplain. She talks about the realities of being a hospital chaplain throughout the pandemic, how she got through it and how she continues to follow the call today. 

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Divan Hattingh works as a tour guide in Rome, Italy and is a professional Latin-American dancer, 11-time national champion and currently ranked in the top 13 in the world for his class of dancing.

Before 2020, Divan Hattingh says his life felt empty. 2020 held a quiet season for him, and in this post-2020 chapter, he's feeling free.

His journey through the 2020s includes life as a tour guide in Italy during t...

Hailey Rose had just graduated from trade school to become a film and theater industry welder when 2020 began. With her intended career grinding to a halt before it even began due to the pandemic, Hailey had to get creative during 2020 to stay afloat. Through it all, she promised herself to always share her joy with others to help spark joy for them, too. Hailey calls herself a “goth girl from the south with an interest in the maca...

After a stint on “The Voice,” musician Alex Guthrie started 2020 with shows booked across the country. When the pandemic hit, nearly every one of those shows was canceled, forcing Alex to consider a new career. 

In this episode, we’ll learn what it was like for Alex to accept a forced transition and chase an alternative, fulfilling next career as a pilot. 

Plus, he turns the tables and asks me some really good questions abo...

Sumaya Jeeva entered into 2020 fresh off the heels of a painful divorce. As she navigated lockdown, she also navigated the grief of her marriage ending. Sumaya shares what her healing journey looked like and her encouragement to people experiencing divorce. Her hunger and search for elusive support resources throughout this period led her to create an Instagram community to support divorced Muslim women called, “And She Thrived.&qu...

This episode I talk with Alexis Tiedemann. Her journey is the stuff of rockstar biographies, jet setting from city to city and from substance to substance. Alexis got sober in late 2019 and entered the 2020s living in a sober house surrounded by women experiencing the same challenges. She shares about sobriety and enjoying her second chance at life in the decade of the 2020s. 

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Having just started a job which would be moving him to Greece once it was safe to do so, Evan LaForge was thrown into a series of challenges and changes in 2020, which led him to kindle a friendship with a coworker who turned into so much more. 

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Since discovering his true identity in the wake of a life-altering accident in the 80s, Strong Heart Bear, also known as Daniel Hull, has dedicated his life to performing sacred healing ceremonies and providing spaces for people to experience spiritual healing. In the wake of 2020, this calling feels even more important to him. 

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As a therapist in Georgia serving Hispanic and Latino communities, Rebeca Gibbons sees herself first as an advocate. 

As she supported the communities she served as they navigated everything 2020 brought with it, she was also trying to support herself through what she calls “The Three Pandemics,” plus health issues unleashed by contracting COVID.  

Learn more about Rebeca's nonprofit, Unidos Latino Association, at unidoslatinoas...

Having formerly served in the military and as a police officer, Richard Tinkwalder’s experience has shaped who he is today. 2020 for him held a revolutionary reset in which he found a new career teaching highschoolers, peace with his past and a fresh outlook for the future. 

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The pandemic completely shut down Tisha Marina Bernard’s previous work as a bully prevention trainer for schools across the nation. She took that downtime to focus on her mental health journey, reconnect to her roots and explore an alternate career path she believes in just as passionately.

Connect with Tisha on Instagram (@tisha_sacredhoop), Facebook and LinkedIn (Tisha Marina Bernard), and online at http://www.tishamarin...

For years, Jonny Atkins and his wife, Jodi, tried to have a baby with no luck. Eventually, they decided to adopt. When they got the call to come pick up their newborn, adopted daughter in February 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning to make its way across the US, and lockdowns were on the horizon. 

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By the time 2020 hit, Susan Amy Hunter had already undergone a series of healing milestones. This new decade brought her into a space of serving, rethinking her career, and navigating her relationships with both her birth mom and her biological mom and, ultimately, their deaths in 2020 and 2021.

Connect with Susan by visiting her website, huntermoonastrology.coach, Instagram or Facebook. 

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Georgia social worker, wife and mother Jordan Gulbranson shares her 2020 journey of rediscovering meaningful work, parenting through the pandemic and losing her mom to suicide.

If you or someone you know is struggling, call 988 or visit the 988 Lifeline website. 

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Thank you for an incredible first season of "2020 Did It to Me!" We'll be back after a little break to recalibrate for season two. 

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 Life and career coach Natalia Tamburini highlights the trends she’s seen in her clients around career and life goals, as well as how her own life has changed, since 2020. 

Follow Natalia on Instagram @natalia_tamburini or @tambuceramics.

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Hear key findings from author David Hochman's May 2023 AARP Bulletin cover story, "Three Years Later: What We Learned from COVID: The Pandemic's Impact on Home, Family, Healthcare, Work, Technology, Community, Money and More."

Read the article with an AARP account here. 

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What did COVID really do to birth rates? Was there an increase in babies due to the pandemic or not?

Sources: 

• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-caused-a-baby-bump-when-experts-expected-a-drop-heres-why/ 
• https://apple.news/A-r2h0xy-RTOLku7LIcj2lA 
• https://news.gallup.com/poll/511238/americans-preference-larger-families-highest-1971.aspx
• https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_NORC_Topline_EconQues...