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 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.
Reach...
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/
Resources:
S3 E2 - Rohini Kanniganti, MD - Integrating Science and the Sacred - Part 2, explores practical ways to cultivate joy, find compassion and peace. Packed with ideas and references. Make micro-choices and celebrate them and noticing the big and small miracles in everyday life and end of life.
Reach out to Nancy Norton: https://www.nancynorton.tv/
Links to some resources mentioned on the episode:
The Adventure of Grief: Dr G...
S3 E1 - Rohini Kanniganti, MD - MSPH, HMDC, LOVE, JOY, POET, MAMA- Integrating Science, Art and the Sacred. Rohini Kanniganti is a board certified hospice and family medicine doctor who shares vulnerably about her own fears about waiting for possible cancer diagnosis, as well as being triggers rising up while awaiting an approval from the DEA and how feeling her fear fully as energy and as a part of love itself helps her embrace wh...
S2 E36 - Joshua Emerson - Bad Indian - is a Diné comedian who produced the Colorado Native Comedy Show and named his poignant documentary - Bad Indian after the song by the same name by Dead Pioneers. Joshua shares his beautiful journey of healing resentments with his mom as they bonded and laughed while going to college together and then how humor was integral to his upbringing and how it helped him manage his grief when she died....
S2 E35 - Craig Jordan - Outside the Hundred Acre Wood - Craig is a budding comedian who does the most incredible Winnie the Pooh impression. In this free flowing conversation we go on a journey beyond the hundred acre wood into other dimensions, prisons and escapes. Craig has experienced it all and is using his gifts and experiences to help others and himself cope with life challenges.
Learn about the nonprofit helping to change l...
S2 E34 - AJ Finney - Ketamine vs Keta-Mean
AJ Finney is a comedian and podcaster who relays his vulnerable experiences with Ketamine treatments and even shares an audio recording of one of his scariest and most intense experiences ever that ironically lead to a great sense of peace. Finney also shares how humor came naturally to him as a child and how comedy has become the one thing that will not leave him and how important it is t...
S2 E33 - Jose Macall - 911, What's Your Emergency? Jose is a comedian and a Paramedic dispatcher and a former 911 operator and for him, comedy is about defanging something intimidating. We worked together recently on Nurses Off the Charts and on this episode, we get to hear his brilliant comedy bit about immigration which is Tromedy at its best!
Reach out to Jose Macall: https://www.instagram.com/comicfromthevoid
Reach out to Nancy...
S2 E32- Heather Gray - From Pain to Purpose with Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner the Renegade Health Boss Podcaster. Covering topics from relationships, Lyme Disease, Celiac, Mold allergies, brain inflammation and suicide attempts and coping with humor.
Resources:
Heather Gray's Websites and Podcast
http://www.discoveringhealthfdn.com/
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