Surviving Matters

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Ten is a conversation with Corwin Connor and Dennis Wall, founders of FREE Group a comprehensive financial education 501(c)(3). Thank you and thanks for listening!

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Nine is a conversation with Marjorie Parker, President of JobsFirst NYC about the setbacks in youth employment due to the pandemic.

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Eight is a conversation with Alex Rojas owner and chef Jora Kitchen in Queens.

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Seven is a conversation with Tom Loughlin and Billy Dove, co-owners of Company Catered Events which now feeds newly food insecure New Yorkers with funds from The Lori M. Tisch Illumination Fund.

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Six is a conversation with Robert Lee, CEO of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine.   Thank you and thanks for listening!

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Five is a conversation with Mother Lilies, Rector at Christ & Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Manhattan.

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Four is a conversation with a health care professional advocating for psychedelic therapy. Thank you and thanks for listening!

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Three is a conversation with Dr. Laura Price a PTSD therapist about trauma. Thank you and thanks for listening!

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode Two is a conversation with Reverend Lindsey Briggs a chaplain in Brooklyn about grief and loss. Thank you and thanks for listening!

Welcome to Season Two of Surviving Matters! My name is Holly Lynch, I live in New York City and I’m a two-time cancer survivor. Last year, I did a podcast asking other people how they’ve survived the trials in their lives. It was a very personal question; these are stories I’m very proud to have produced. But this year Covid changed everything; including our ideas of survival. So for this season I tracked down community leaders, those whose job it is to figure out how to make it work and asked them how we get through this. Episode One is a conversation with Dr. Chris T. Pernell, Chief Strategic Integration and Health Equity Officer at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey. Thank you and thanks for listening!

Tom Allon is the president and publisher of City & State Magazine. We knew his parents had survived the Holocaust and that's why we wanted to talk to him. What we didn't know was that he's also a college-aged cancer survivor. How do you get through that while studying for finals? Tom has some insight.

Paul and Sibyl wanted to be parents but couldn't bring one to full term. Their struggle to have a child after losing so many pregnancies is inspiring and heartbreaking.

Gina is an athlete. A few years ago while training for her second Iron Man race, she woke up in the hospital with a TBI.

Maria is a part of a larger story about immigration and human rights. Each year workers in the US, those with documentation and those without, send their wages back to their home countries to the annual sum of $56 billion. It’s the largest, most effective foreign aid in human history and it’s all crowd sourced, one individual at a time. Twenty years ago Maria’s family in Bolivia was poor and desperate. So Maria, to quote the musical Hamilton, the oldest and the wittiest, left her five year old daughter to be raised by her mother and traveled to New York City to work. She’s been living without documentation while sending every extra penny home to help her family for the last two decades.

Harriet is a co-founder of the DOE Fund's Ready, Willing and Able program. Last year she nearly lost her life but couldn't leave her life's work.

Stephanie found out she was pregnant right before college. She tells us how she managed to be a new mother and a freshman.

Shavar Jeffries is an American civil rights attorney and former candidate for mayor of Newark. When he was a young child his mother was stalked and murdered by her husband. Shavar shares with us what it was like to lose his mother and how that shaped the man he is today.

Mavis was one of the most successful nursing school teachers in New York City. She grew up on the segregated Upper West Side of Manhattan. Now nearly 100 years old, she tells us about her life and career; how she got through it and what we can all learn from it. (Bonus we interviewed her in church and got her to curse!)

Mel Wymore was born a girl and tried her best to be what everyone wanted her to be. Several decades later she discovered that she didn't identify as a woman. Mel tells us about his struggles and triumphs in becoming the gender that suits him.

Terrance Coffie was raised in foster care and ended up being what he describes as the worst stereotype of a black man at the age of 39. Then after 20 years of being in and out of prison, Mr. Coffie radically changed his life. He now teaches criminal justice at NYU.

Hello my name is Holly Lynch. I'm a two time cancer survivor. What got me through all the pain and the fear of cancer was listening to other people talk about how they survived adversity in their lives.  So I decided to make a podcast about just that, everyday people talking about their darkest days and their biggest challenges.  The only thing that matters is surviving! Thank you for joining us!