Beyond YOUR Bar Podcast

She has carried one of the most avoided subjects in medicine to the World Economic Forum, onto PBS, and even onto the floor of the US Senate. Denise Pines, the Peabody Award winning filmmaker behind The M Factor, sits down with Denisa to talk about menopause the way almost no one does, plainly, practically, and without shame.

This conversation gets into the symptom almost no one connects to perimenopause, the reason a woman with eve...

He plays some of television's most chilling villains, the kind of man you love to hate. So why is J. Anthony Crane, the face of Chandler Groff on Outer Banks, one of the warmest and most curious people we have ever had?

The actor behind roles in Succession, Billions, Broadway, and the Royal National Theatre of London sits down with Denisa to talk about the strange craft of playing the bad guy, the teacher who convinced a room of hig...

W. Bruce Cameron wrote A Dog's Purpose as a book about the soul. The world read it as a book about dogs. He has been happily explaining the difference ever since.

The number one New York Times bestselling author has written more than thirty dog centered novels that have made millions of people laugh and cry, often on the same page. His stories have become hit films, and this holiday season his novel A Dog's Perfect Christmas comes t...

Thom Filicia got his big break because his dog needed to pee.

He was a successful interior designer in Soho with a dozen people working for him when he got stuck in an elevator with a group of strangers, a panicking woman, and a dog with his legs in a knot. By the time the fire department pried the doors open, one of the women in that elevator had decided this hilarious stranger belonged on television. That woman was a casting direc...

Rikki Rockett built an entire empire out of a pair of drumsticks, and he is the first to tell you he still can't believe it worked.

As the drummer and co-founder of Poison, he helped define an era, sold tens of millions of records, and just landed in the Metal Hall of Fame. Now he is dropping a memoir that spares no one, including himself.

Ghost Notes: My Life in Poison hits September 15th, and it is exactly as brutally honest, darkl...

Some people spend their whole lives asking permission. Patrika Darbo never did.

At a Hollywood audition in 1968 she was told she had all the talent in the world and none of the look the business wanted. What she did next set the tone for the next 40 years, two Emmys, and one of the most respected character careers in the industry.

You know her as Nancy Wesley on Days of Our Lives, and from In the Line of Fire, Midnight in the Garden ...

Early in her career, Debra Rubin gave clients bus fare out of her own pocket so they could make it to court. Today she runs her own firm and is one of the most recognized matrimonial attorneys on Long Island. How she got from one to the other is the real story.

Host Denisa Tova sits down with Debra for a conversation that moves easily between the practical and the personal. Debra came up through Legal Aid, representing people with n...

Caroline Stanbury and Sergio Carrallo run nine companies, raise three teenagers and live a life most people only see through a screen. You know them from Ladies of London and The Real Housewives of Dubai. What you do not know is what actually holds it all together.

In this conversation they open up about the rule they live by that keeps their marriage steady, the setbacks that nearly took each of them down before they ever met, and ...

Valerie Tocci, Partner at Fox Rothschild LLP, could have stayed in the courtroom chasing high-stakes cases as a federal prosecutor. Instead, she walked into family law and never looked back.

Eighteen years later, she's still fired up about it, and in this episode she's honest about why. She talks about the anger that still rises when she sees injustice, and why she thinks a good lawyer should feel it rather than bury it. She opens u...

Barrett Doss played Victoria Hughes on Station 19 for seven seasons. Before that she was a leading lady on Broadway, starring as Rita in Groundhog Day opposite Andy Karl and winning the Theatre World Award for her debut. Right now you can find her as Emily Henderson in Netflix's remake of Little House on the Prairie.

She has her own rule for the industry: don't work for the business, make the business work for you. She explains what...

Heidi Harris, Partner at Mosberg Sharma Stambleck Gross LLP, has spent more than 30 years as a divorce attorney in New York City. Then she went through her own, after 25 years of marriage. What happened next is the part most people don't expect: the anger eventually subsided, and today she and her ex-husband are genuinely friends who travel together as a family for their kids.

Heidi opens up about the daughter of a Polish immigrant ...

For Molly Zamoiski, family law wasn't a winding path. It was in her blood. Her mother ran a nursery school, and her father, who passed away before she was born, was an attorney. She grew up drawn to law and to helping children, built her entire career at one firm, and became a matrimonial attorney who genuinely loves the work.

Denisa Tova gets to know the person behind the title. Molly talks about why she'd rather settle a case than...

Victoria Rowell was a foster child on a farm in Maine who taught herself ballet from a book. That turned into a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater, and eventually into one of the most recognizable careers in television. Drucilla Winters on The Young and the Restless, eight seasons on Diagnosis Murder with Dick Van Dyke, and Dumb and Dumber opposite Jim Carrey.

She has her own rule for making it through: the alternative was n...

Gregory Gilston built a family law firm from scratch in the middle of the pandemic and ran the whole thing on technology from day one. That turned into a second company, TekStak Legal Consulting, where he helps other attorneys do the same.

He has his own rule for family law: it takes four to tango. Both attorneys and both parties. He explains what that means for anyone stuck in a case that will not move.

We get into the tech most fir...

Sally Miller spent 30 years designing clothes for women. She built her own fashion brand from scratch on credit cards after a shocking divorce. She dressed the Obamas. And then in 2020 everything stopped and she had to face the question she had been avoiding her whole life. Who am I without all of this?

So she sold her house, gave her kids 90 days to move out and drove across the country alone for five months to find out.

Sally talks...

Nobody plans for the thing that changes everything.

Jerry Scharoff of The Law Office of Jerome A. Scharoff, P.C. didn't set out to be a divorce lawyer. A single case landed on his desk, he wrote one memo on a weekend, and 30 years later, here he is. That's how careers actually happen. Not in a straight line, but in moments you don't recognize as turning points until you look back.

Jerry opens up about growing up in a family of lawyer...

Sean Stone grew up on some of the most iconic film sets in Hollywood. Wall Street. The Doors. Born on the Fourth of July. His father is Oliver Stone. And somehow none of that is the most interesting thing about him.

Sean talks about traveling the world from the age of five, spending a semester shadowing his father on the set of Alexander instead of going to class, and what happened when he broke into the Greystone Asylum on October ...

Joseph H. Nivin built his matrimonial law firm from the ground up in Forest Hills, New York. But what he brings to the work goes well beyond the courtroom. As someone who has been through divorce himself, he understands on a personal level exactly how much is at stake for the people sitting across from him.In this episode, Denisa Tova gets the story behind the title: the short-story-writing kid who picked dandelions on the soccer f...

Most people know Carson Kressley from Queer Eye or RuPaul's Drag Race. But the kid who grew up on a pony farm in Pennsylvania with 200 Shetland ponies and taught himself to survive junior high with humor because it was the only weapon he had — that is the version worth knowing.

In this episode Carson opens up about realizing he was fabulous in the fourth grade, what it felt like to carry the secret of being gay in a conservati...