Sarah Fader The Podcast
This is What Anxiety Feels Like Sarah Fader is the Co-Founder of Stigma Fighters, a 501C3 mental health non-profit organization. Her writing has been featured in Psychology Today, The Atlantic, Vice, McSweeny's and The Huffington Post. She lives with panic disorder and ADHD and and this is her podcast. www.sarahfader.com
Episodes
November 3, 2025 • 29 mins
Join me as chat with Alexis Pleus about Truth Pharm, an organization that fights against the stigma of substance abuse. Alexis is a professional engineer, artist, writer and activist, and mother of 3 sons. In 2014, she lost her oldest son Jeff to an overdose and as a result of that experience, founded Truth Pharm 6 months later with a focus on raising awareness, reducing stigma, educating and advocating to reduce the harms caused b...
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October 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Join me as I speak with Dana Bernstein about conflict, inner-critics, core values, getting along with co-workers and more!
Dana Bernstein is a Conflict Resolution author, speaker, consultant and Principal of Dare to Live Brave. With 2,500+ coaching hours and 100+ clients, she specializes in de-escalation, negotiations, contracts, project management, and high stakes situations representing universities, government, banking and cou...
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October 9, 2025 • 38 mins
Lawrence Harris is a youth empowerment speaker and author who helps teens and young adults build self-love, inner strength and improve their mental health. Through his speeches, online content and books, listeners find the courage to heal, dream bigger, and take ownership of their lives.
His purpose is to help others to break free from limiting beliefs, heal from what tried to silence them, and step into the confidence of who they...
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October 2, 2025 • 36 mins
Join me as I chat with coach Rachel Radway about highly sensitive people, neurodivergent folks, how to make survive in corporate America as with a unique brain and her award-winning book "Perceptive: Insights for Leaders who Feel More, Process Deeply, and Think Differently."
Rachel Radway is a certified leadership & executive coach, mentor, speaker, and award-winning author with more than 25 years’ experience in corporate leadersh...
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September 29, 2025 • 38 mins
Join me as I talk with the lovely, articulate animal loving Alida Miranda Wolff. We discuss bunnies, the University of Chicago, the problems with the law of attraction, trauma, mythology and her new book The Raven in the Storm.
Books recommended by Alida in this episode:
The Age of Magical Thinking by Amanda Montell
Staying with the Trouble Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway
Alida Miranda-Wolff is the Amazon-bests...
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September 25, 2025 • 27 mins
Join me as I chat with Trenton Bennett, who is narrating my YA vampire fraternity book, Mind Sex!
Trenton Bennett has narrated audiobooks in a wide range of genres, from inspirational to children's poetry, romance, thriller and many volumes of science fiction and military adventure for author Robert E. Williscroft. Highlights also include being the voice of Piglet in an all-star production of Winnie the Pooh and narrating the au...
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April 11, 2025 • 32 mins
Samar Kargbo (he/him) is a speaker, podcast host, and author who helps nonprofit leaders and passionate professionals recover from burnout and reconnect with their purpose. Drawing on years of experience in leadership and personal development, he equips his clients with practical strategies to gain clarity, build confidence, and take ownership of their path forward. Through grounded conversations and transformative coaching, Samar’...
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March 26, 2025 • 26 mins
Join me as I talk with Tim Boyle, VP of THG Financial about why everyone should have life insurance. You might be thinking: I have life insurance through work, or I have money in the bank to cover my funeral or cremation if I get eaten by an alligator. And while that may be true, do you really want to think about gaining access to those funds after your family is mourning your premature demise from the unfortunate encounter with a ...
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March 9, 2025 • 31 mins
Join me as I speak to Mike Reed, founder of Single and Sober, a sober dating website where people can connect and love and companionship. Mike and I talk about getting sober, being sober curious, AA and therapy. Oh and there's more! Listen here!
Visit Single and Sober here:
https://singleandsober.com/
Follow Mike on Blue Sky: @singleandsober.bsky.social
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January 19, 2025 • 29 mins
Join me as I interview guitarist Alejandro Gomez about his new band: Dreams As Nightmares.
Hailing from the city of sin, Las Vegas, Nevada, Dreams As Nightmares is a fresh voice in metal-core, influenced by genre-related bands like ERRA and Tesseract, while dipping into the melodic essence from artists like Dio and Alice in Chains. Their music blends technical finesse and raw emotion, offering a sound that’s both powerful and dee...
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January 8, 2025 • 23 mins
When some close to you dies by suicide, the grief can be feel unbearable. Noam Schneck PHD joins me to discuss his research on how the brain responds to the loss of a loved one who has taken their life.
More about Noam:
Dr. Schneck studies the way that people adapt to the suicide loss of a loved one. Specifically, his research aims to identify unconscious processes of coping with the loss that help people grow and adapt while al...
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December 20, 2024 • 35 mins
Tim Boyle began his career in the financial services profession as an insurance telemarketer for Allstate Financial at the age of 15. Working there throughout high school and college, Tim held various roles and was promoted to his first management position by age 19. After graduating from the University of Alabama, he opened a successful, independent insurance agency in Charlotte, North Carolina, before joining AAA at 23 where he c...
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June 30, 2024 • 47 mins
Composer John Jesensky and I talk about music, Inspector Gadget, Thomas Newman, piano, and more!
Composer/conductor JOHN JESENSKY earned his B.M. in Music Composition from the Hartt
School of Music under the tutelage of composer Stephen Gryc, as well as leading wind ensemble
conductor Glen Adsit. John was awarded his M.M. in Film Composition from New York
University, where he studied with renown film composers Ira Newborn and Sonn...
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August 18, 2023 • 46 mins
Join me and my guest author Daniel Aegan as we discuss the downfall of the artist formerly known as Twitter and how to steal a pizza. Daniel is a dark humorist, writer and tarot reader. Find him at www.danielaegan.com
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August 10, 2023 • 31 mins
In this episode, Michelle Tillis Lederman talks about her book, The Connector's Advantage. What does it mean to have a mindset of abundance? How can one be conscientious and maintain fulfilling relationships? Learn how being generous is good for you and the person who receives your gifts.
Here's more about Michelle:
Michelle is an accomplished speaker, trainer, coach, and author of four books including The Connector’s Advantage,...
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August 5, 2023 • 37 mins
Join me as I talk with the lovely Bryanna Gary, creator of The Angry Noodle blog! Bryanna is a neurospicy rockstar who creates "silly little guys." She's a streamer, gamer and a badass. She is an alumna of NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where I also went. We love Bryanna, who also goes by Brie or Brioche. Here's more about The Angry Noodle:
The Angry Noodle is a blog for all things writing, science fiction, fantasy...
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July 24, 2023 • 55 mins
Richard Brockman MD lost his mother to suicide when he was only 7 years old. Since that day he has been trying to put the pieces of his life back together. In his book Life After Death - Surviving Suicide, Dr. Brockman describes his journey of loss and healing.
Richard Brockman, MD, is a clinical professor in the department of psychiatry at Columbia University and a visiting professor in the department of psychiatry at the Univer...
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July 20, 2023 • 70 mins
Join me and August McLaughlin, as we talk about ADHD things and the Adderall shortage! I love August because we have such similar brains. She talks freely about female sexuality at Girl Boner Radio and she's an amazing writer. Also, we ran around without shirts and our parents told us that wasn't okay. Here's more about the lovely August:
August is a journalist, author of several books and host and producer of Girl Boner Radio, w...
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July 20, 2023 • 44 mins
Canadian podcaster, Casey Ryan, is a movie savant. I tried to stump him by finding movies he hadn't seen, but alas I failed. Until next time, Ryan. Casey and I talk about movies his podcast On The Cutting Room Floor, anxiety and much much more.
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July 13, 2023 • 25 mins
Ghosting can be painful. When you're ghosted, you don't know why the person stopped talking to you. Whether you're the ghoster or the ghostee, this phenomenon impacts us. Jennifer Maddox-Byrd, LCSW and I sit down to talk about the concept of cutting someone out of your life.
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