Welcome to Ungoverned!

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snackable stories ("pod-snacks") for the soul

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Dear listener, 

Thanks for stopping by.

I'd like to tell you a little about myself and how I came to create this podcast.

I recorded Season 1 shortly following my 2023 retirement from my hometown of Huntington as a Councilwoman.

Politics and government, at any level, can be a highly-charged environment, and, as is my way, I threw my whole self into it for over 20 years.

When you find yourself on the other side it, there's a lot to process about what you've learned, especially, about human nature, both the best and the worst of it.

I'm probably not alone in saying that in retirement one has the time and freedom to press rewind to review not only the lessons learned from a long career, but also, from what came before it.

In my youth, I turned to creative pursuits, and especially writing, as means to both escape and express myself in a world that often made no sense to me.

So it was no surprise that after stepping off the Town Board dais, I found myself building a podcast studio as a means of self-therapy by way of storytelling and therapeutic oversharing.

People often ask me if I miss my work as a former town councilwoman.

I don't miss the politics, but I do miss the people and the many opportunities I enjoyed to make things better.

So Ungoverned has now become the space where I can continue to connect with people and reflect on memorable events and people that have left a lasting impact on me.

And hopefully, leave you with some snack-food for thought, or dare I say, even a laugh.

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With Peace and Love,