Tromedy with Nancy Norton

Tromedy with Nancy Norton

The Tromedy Podcast shows you how to take your pain and play with it. Coping with Trauma using Comedy comes naturally to a lot of folks especially Standup Comedians. Listen in as Award Winning Comedian, Nancy Norton, RN, CHP shares heartfelt, insightful and funny conversations with Trauma survivors, healing professionals and standup comedians. It's peer to peer support with a side of co-healing energy. The Tromedy Podcast is not a replacement for trauma therapy, but it may help you get by between sessions. Know that you're not alone, get out of isolation and when you're ready, laugh.

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October 21, 2025 52 mins

S3 E32 - Matt MacLean - Quiet the Inner Critic. Matt is a mechanical engineer and comedian who is exploring van life. He shares openly about struggles with the death of the ego ideal, being tormented by an inner critic, panic attacks, inner family system therapy, past life regressions, healing discoveries, restoring creative flow and so many psychedelic insights.

Recorded in Boulder, CO October 17, 2025


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S3 E32 - Matt MacLean - Quiet the Inner Critic. Matt is a mechanical engineer and comedian who is exploring van life. He shares openly about struggles with the death of the ego ideal, being tormented by an inner critic, panic attacks, inner family system therapy, past life regressions, healing discoveries, restoring creative flow and so many psychedelic insights.

Recorded in Boulder, CO October 17, 2025


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S3 E31 - Alison Landoni, Big T Trauma helped with Expressive Art - and Big T trauma helps put other small t traumas in perspective. Alison is walking her talk as she shares how humor helped her during a recent cancer treatment.


Reach out: ⁠https://www.nancynorton.tv/⁠

Connect with Alison Landoni: ⁠https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/alison-m-landoni-gloucester-ma/834340⁠

Learn about Leukoplakia: ⁠https://www.mayoclinic....

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S3 E31 - Alison Landoni, Big T Trauma helped with Expressive Art - and Big T trauma helps put other small t traumas in perspective. Alison is walking her talk as she shares how humor helped her during a recent cancer treatment.


Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/

Connect with Alison Landoni: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/alison-m-landoni-gloucester-ma/834340

Learn about Leukoplakia: https://www.mayoclinic.org...

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S3 E30 - Mike McCann - Characters Attract Characters - and Mike McCann is a character WITH character, compassion and a ton of creativity. He's been through a lot of traumas and stresses growing up getting beaten in the projects, child abuse by some not quite real nuns, losing friends and family members and finds healing by being of service and being in nature, particularly on a River. he has written books of fast-paced, fascinating...

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S3 E30 - Mike McCann - Characters Attract Characters - and Mike McCann is a character WITH character, compassion and a ton of creativity. He's been through a lot of traumas and stresses growing up getting beaten in the projects, child abuse by some not quite real nuns, losing friends and family members and finds healing by being of service and being in nature, particularly on a River. he has written books of fast-paced, fascina...

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S3 E29 - Anthony Bartolo - Comedic Anxiety Relief - Anthony shares about growing-up anxious as the son of undocumented immigrants and going to a very strict Catholic School frozen with fear and anxiety about getting in trouble.. Hear how he finally got free to speak truth to power with the help of the story of Jesus flipping the tables in the temple, the bold comedy of George Carlin and the controversial film The Last Temptation of...

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August 26, 2025 62 mins

S3 E28 - Comic Mitch Jones - Hot Pockets

Mitch shares his hilarious bit about Hot Pockets and openly shares vulnerable struggles and how being ghosted by a date in College helped put him on his path to being a comedian. Nancy tries a little Tromedy to help Mitch find peace with all the "What ifs" in his life?

Connect with Nancy here and find tickets to comedy shows: https://www.nancynorton.tv

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S3 E27 - Neill Epperson, MD - The Fantastic Female Brain - Dr. Epperson is a Psychiatrist and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at CU Anschutz Medical Campus and she is one of the scientist researchers presenting at Headstrong Comedy along with Nancy Norton and other comedians and scientists. 4 female Scientist + 4 Female Comedians = 1 fun and empowering night. Highlighting the incredibly helpful breakthroughs gained through me...

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S3 E26 - Tania Henderson -Fear Screams, Wisdom Whispers - Tania is a Licensed Psychotherapist in the Denver area and specializes in trauma therapy through many modalities including EMDR, Psychedelic Therapy, and embraces a playful approach to parts work and Gestalt Therapy. Listen in to this conversation that may help you along your path to peace and listening to your own inner wisdom.


Connect with Nancy Norton: https://www.nancyno...

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July 29, 2025 53 mins

S3 E25 - Will C - Combat to Comedy - is one of the most inspiring episodes yet. Military trauma on top of childhood trauma on top of healthcare trauma and more! and yet not only does Will refuse to quit, he turned his traumas into insights, gifts and gives back to others who need him. If you're struggling something, take a listen to Will's powerful stories of resilience.

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Jason Louis - Not Quite Bullet Proof. Jason says, "Comedy Saved My Life and Cancer was the absolute best thing that ever happened to me." Jason is a trauma survivor x 7 or more! and he loves to laugh and is willing to be so vulnerable in order to help others. This former Sheriff Deputy and Cancer Survivor openly shares vulnerable experiences from childhood on that led him to want to make a difference by being a Peace Officer and th...

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S3 E23 - Pam Moore - Forgetting and Remembering - may be the whole purpose of life. Pam Moore is an OT, an intuitive eating coach, comedian and writer. This episode talks about Bells Palsy, parenting, body Image, and the Middle East just to name a few.

Reach out to Nancy Norton

https://www.nancynorton.tv/


Reach out to Pam Moore

https://www.pam-moore.com/


Bells Palsy resource:

https://facialrecovery.com/


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S3 E22- Jeff Koehn - Part 2 - Surrender the Agenda - Sometimes the derailment puts you on the right track... Jeff shares how he got lost on his way as a young spiritual seeker and wound up getting to a much better place. Like the classic Heroes Journey.... in retrospect sometimes you realize your perceived enemy may have actually helped you shed old beliefs and moved you out of your comfort zone so you could fulfill your purpose.

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S3 E21 - Jeff Koehn - Torture, Frustration and Joy - can lead you to express. Jeff recalls reading that suppression leads to depression and so he expresses in art, music and comedy. Jeff shares some of the struggles with being adopted and dating through a hilarious comedy bit and some of what he's learned about how adoption trauma impacts sense of self and identity.


Jeff' Koehn's paintings are in many galleries acro...

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June 10, 2025 44 mins

S3 E20 - Jordan Doll - Supernatural - Born in Scotland into a family who was into midlands, UK folk magic. Jordon is a comedian, artist, writer and Ghost Storyteller. Is spirituality a post-traumatic gift? Listen to Jordan's podcast: https://www.werewolfradar.com/


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https://www.nancynorton.tv/


Jordan Doll on instagram and all the things @razorlou: https://www.instagram.com/razorlou/

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S3 E19 - Shanna Christmas - Highly Intelligent is the name of her comedy special and you can find it on youtube. This episode and Shanna's special tackle tough subjects like a parent's dementia, her surprise brain tumor and sexual assault by a colleague and what happens when to you in your community when you press charges. Shanna is very vulnerable and very funny.


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S3 E18 - Chris Phillips - Dish Soap Sommelier - is Tromedy about having his mouth washed out with dish soap for cursing as a child, which is just one form of abuse that escalated after his father was killed in the Edmond Post Office Shooting. Chris is a writer and budding comedian who shares how EMDR trauma therapy has helped him immensely and how watching and writing comedy is another way to redirect and transmute trauma triggers.

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S3 E17 - Ron Feingold - "Just a Prick" is a comedy show to raise awareness around PSA Prostate Blood Testing... Attend a comedy show and get your test done at the show. Ron is the Founder of Open Bar Comedy and shares how comedy has helped him through life's challenges including child abuse, the heartbreak of infidelity and most recently prostate cancer.


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Connect with Ron: https://www.ronfeingol...

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S3 E16 - Janae Burris - Single Mom Comedy is hard. Janae wants to apologize to all the moms she judged in the past for not staying as active as an artist after they became a parent. She gets it now and is trying to navigate being a new single mom, comedian, actor and host of Film on the Rocks and other events while trying to find a good, reliable trustworthy nanny.


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