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.
Episodes
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...
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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Jordan Doll on instagram and all the things @razorlou: https://www.instagram.com/razorlou/
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.
Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
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.
Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
Connect with Ron: https://www.ronfeingol...
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.
Reach out to Nancy Norton or find upcoming shows here: https://w...
S3 E15- Joe Huisman - Second Chance Comedy producer and budding comedian who shares how his recovery journey led to finding his passion and purpose to help chip away at the stigma of addiction.
Reach Out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
https://www.secondchancecomedy.com/
https://www.sobrietyhouse.org/
S3 E14 - Rick Bryan - Resilience in this game of Risk - If anyone has resilience, it's comedian Rick Bryan who had to endure abuse at home as a young child and then in the prison system as an adolescent and a young adult. Somehow, with the help of humor Rick managed to not only survive, but to eventually thrive as an adult. Frankee B, Rick's wife of 20 years is in the studio and as we record this episode Frankee and Rick ge...
S3 E13- Von Sprecken - Mirror Mirror - How do we get out of the house of mirrors inside our own brain and break the cycle of perpetual shame? Von shares some practices about dealing with toxic shame and getting to the other side of self-love.
Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
Von Sprecken: https://www.instagram.com/getsprecked/
Here is a IG page of David Dayan Fisher who created the reel that Nance played that related to...
S3 E12- Nance Rants about Toxic Shame- If you have toxic shame, know that you are not alone. As much therapy and recovery work as we have done, toxic shame can reappear time to time. How do you deal with Toxic Shame?
Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
S3 E11- Jacob Rupp & Miriam Moreno - April Fools!
Jacob and Miriam celebrate their 3rd Anniversary today. April Fools Day 2025! They are both comedians and share a creative life and work together on a show called Goodnight Denver. Trigger warnings: We talk about miscarriages, abortions, STD's, Homophobia, Transphobia and a parent being murdered... AND believe it or not... while we touch in on the heaviness, ultimately... it's ...
S3 E10 - Sherri Harper - Thriving after Sociopath Abuse ! Sherri is back with a fun followup conversation since we last spoke with her 2 years ago on S1- E10-"Those Red Flags are NOT a Parade!" It's so exciting to hear how she is thriving and at peace now. Sherri is happy in a 2 year relationship. Even though this feels like the most honest relationship she's ever been in, she learned her lesson from the sociop...
S3 E9 - Vinnie Montez - First Responder Dark Humor - Trigger Warning: this episode deals with graphic details of vicarious traumas that police officers and first responders have to deal with... such as self inflicted gunshot wounds, death, child abuse and decomposing bodies and this is NOT for the faint at heart. Dark Humor is necessary to express vicarious trauma to reset and maintain resilience to do this difficult work.
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S3 E8- Kate Rosato, RN - Ambivert - a lot of caring and a lot of go away! Nurses give and give and Kate shares what it takes to recharge and do self care so she can continue caring for others.
Reach out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
Contact Kate about Reiki: kate.rosatoc@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/kate.cooper.52
Resources for this episode:
What is Reiki?
https://www.reiki.org/faqs/what-reiki
Who is Dr. Jean Watson and what is Cari...
S3 E7 - Stone Wrote a Poem- a Slam Poet, a Nurse and a Comedian skip the bar... and this conversation happened.
Stone is a "Silly Goose in Recovery," but secretly they long to be a shoebill stork, a beast of a bird that would never be catcalled. Stone shares about writing and performing poems drunk and how it is now being sober.
Reach Out: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
Find links to Stone's poetry, Retrograde Review, photos and more: h...
S3 E6 - Von Sprecken - Between Sense and Nonsense - Von just won a Moth Storytelling competition with a story about his brother's suicide and shares how the process of writing and performing that helped him process one of the most painful days of his life. Other topics discussed; Social Media and vulnerability, tickling the boundaries of what is helping vs harming and how speaking truth and being offended can both be weaponized...
S3 E5 - Nathaniel Biswas Norton - Abandoning Issues!
Nathaniel is Nancy Norton's favorite guest of all time.... Of course, he is Nancy's twenty year old son... so she may be slightly biased.
Nathaniel Norton was adopted as an infant and shares adoption humor, childhood traumas and many strategies for coping.
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S3 E4 - Jessica Kafle- Sari, Not Sorry!
Jessica is the host of the podcast "Relationship Roundtable" and she is speaking up and speaking out about a lot of things not talked about in Nepali Culture and Nepali families such as arranged marriages, child abuse, mental illness and suicide. Jessica manages to learn and grow and not be defined by the abuses that have happened to her, she is here to share how we all can learn and...
S3 E3 - Mandy Simonson - Laughing at Cancer and pretty much everything else too. Mandy is a former police officer who once left her gun in a Starbucks.. She is a power hitter comedian who kicked breast cancer to the curb, laughing all the way.
Reach out to Nancy: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
Follow Mandy on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/musings_ala_mandy/
https://www.instagram.com/latetothegamepod/
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