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Stop surviving and start thriving. A Contagious Smile is a globally ranked podcast providing a safe haven for abuse survivors and special needs families navigating the journey of trauma recovery. Whether you are healing from domestic violence, narcissistic abuse, childhood trauma, or the daily challenges of disability advocacy, our mission is to turn your pain into power.Each episode features raw, authentic conversations with survivors, mental health experts, and advocates who share actionable resources for PTSD healing, resilience building, and emotional wellness. We go beyond the struggle to highlight the triumphs of the special needs community, offering support for caregivers...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A candid, couple-led account of abuse recovery, medical self-advocacy, and the daily family work of rebuilding safety and trust.
Victoria and Michael turn lived experience into searching conversations about abuse, family safety, recovery, and self-advocacy. Their married-couple dynamic gives difficult material an unusual texture: painful memories and direct moral questions share space with teasing,…
Victoria and Michael tease each other about a chiropractor visit, then ask you to sit with a survivor's anger.
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A raw family confrontation with humor, anger, and care that does not look away.
The episode opens in joking, on-air banter before turning toward a telehealth confrontation shaped by prescription bottles, broken promises, and a father-in-law who has plainly gone too far.
Responsibility means naming what hurt and doing what needs to be done.
A Contagious Smile turns a simple question about responsibility into something more personal: growth, accountability, and the wish to avoid the same pain again.
A candid couple's conversation about narcissism, regret, unconditional love, and the household chaos around a family trying to stay steady.
A Contagious Smile Podcast frames relationship advice as a conversation about keeping tenderness intact while family tension keeps pushing against it.
An emergency room joke opens into candid marriage talk, comic deception, and the unruly warmth of a live couple conversation.
A Contagious Smile Unstoppable turns an emergency room visit into comic family-room material, opening on Michael's claimed gunshot wound and the tiny neon pediatric bandage that more than covers the damage.
A loose late-night conversation where back pain, book talk, and survivor safety all share the room.
A late-night conversation turns back pain, a chiropractor visit, an Xbox session, and a bedroom cleanup into a lived-in picture of a household still in motion while one partner is hurting.
A blunt, messy conversation about life after domestic violence, grounded in lived experience.
This episode moves from marriage banter into a blunt look at life after domestic violence. It opens with International Women's Day chatter and a surprise humanitarian honor, then turns to the harder aftermath: emotional and psychological trauma, and what can follow after someone…
A raw, protective parenting conversation that turns one scare into a hard look at kids, trust, and safety.
A gun-range shooting scare turns into a blunt, deeply personal look at parenting, privacy, and the trust kids place in screens and games. It works because it stays close to a family’s panic, corrections, and hard boundaries, so the warnings feel grounded rather than preached.
A candid listen that shifts from dinner banter to a heavy true-crime visit and a pointed anti-abuse close.
The discussion moves from easy couple banter over dinner and TV crushes into a long visit to the Atlanta serial-killer exhibit. The hosts needle each other in the familiar way, then stay with the museum details: the reading, the artifact viewing, the photos, and the rest of the…
Manoush Zomorodi turns TED Talks into themed, multi-guest explorations of science and society.
Daily TED and TEDx talks hosted by Elise Hu, spanning science, psychology, and creativity.
Two hosts revisit one film, show, or book a week, plus long personal tangents.
Lawfare's weekly panel turns Supreme Court rulings and war-powers fights into legal debate.
Victoria and Michael open in a familiar domestic crossfire.
Faith joins the recording and immediately pushes the conversation toward how women are judged by appearance, not by accomplishments, from magazine covers to Hollywood standards.
Victoria Curie says her next book, "Breaking the Cycle," is over 500 pages and focuses on generational trauma, while she also promotes "Healing from Narcissistic Abuse, 1001 Questions to Help You on Your Journey of Healing." She says A Contagious Smile is appearing on the cover of Podcasters International magazine and another magazine featuring Victoria Curie, with victoriacurie.com now live and listing multiple books.
Victoria Michael opens with a trip to Will and Mindy’s mountain home, where around 10 puppies, a purple pick and a blue pick turn into a plan for two new Golden Retrievers.
Victoria Curie and Michael open with podcast banter, then move into the Contagious Smile Academy, which they say uses multi-step authentication, hidden profiles, and fictitious names like "Joey bag of donuts" to protect members from abusive spouses.
A Contagious Smile Podcast centers this episode on protecting your peace from narcissists, with Victoria and Michael Solomon tying the topic to domestic violence, family conflict, and a recent threatening encounter.
Victoria Curie and Michael open with jokes about Drakkar cologne, then turn the conversation toward why Victoria wants to smell good for herself, her husband, and bedtime.
Christmas, Scars, And Standing Up For Ourselves centers on Victoria describing a holiday season shaped by surgery, a possible hospital admission, and a painful exchange with a doctor who asked whether her husband was abusive.
A Contagious Smile Podcast episode titled "Welcoming Dad Home" centers on Michael and Victoria moving Victoria's father into their home after his wife died about a month and a half earlier.
A Contagious Smile Podcast centers this episode on a family member who will not admit an addiction, even after doctors have said there is a problem and the household has tried to intervene.
A Contagious Smile Podcast’s episode “My Husband, A Pee Hat, And A Plot Twist” opens with a hospital mix-up where a urine specimen hat was left in the toilet and a nurse still sent the sample.
A Contagious Smile Podcast says it has given out 480 scholarships through its academy and is funding the program itself without sponsors.
The hosts chat about their new puppies, recent guests, and personal reflections, setting a casual tone for a show focused on trauma recovery and advocacy.
Former FBI agent Eric Robinson discusses how his career affected him personally and his journey of healing.
Co-hosted episode featuring Victoria and Michael discussing recent personal breakthroughs in their marriage.
It opens like a joke.
Victoria and Michael share their emergency room experience after his back pain worsens, revealing starkly contrasting approaches to medical situations.
Victoria Curie says she was selected for a four-page spread in Unstoppable Woman for October, alongside a CEO Times award naming her Best humanitarian advocate for special needs and domestic violence lifetime for 2026.
Victoria and Michael discuss healing from narcissistic abuse and domestic violence, sharing personal stories about trauma recovery, writing therapeutic books, and advocating for survivors.
Victoria Michael opens with a scare at the gun range and turns it into a family talk about safety.
Victoria and Michael open with sleepy dinner banter and the kind of domestic mess that makes the room feel half tired and half ready to bicker.
Victoria and Michael use a Valentine's Day edition of A Contagious Smile Podcast to argue that courtrooms often force survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence to relive every detail, from clothing to exact times.
Discussion on podcast topic with actionable insights
Victoria and Michael open with their familiar household banter, then move into a conversation about addiction and what it does to a family.
Victoria opens the conversation seventy-two hours after back surgery and says the infection from her December 3 operation has made the week rough.
Host and husband discuss weeks-long absence caused by cascading crises: scheduled spinal surgery to replace defective implanted pain device resulted in infection from surgical error.
Victoria and Michael discuss their Home Depot shopping trip while building a new wing for Michael's father (in health recovery).
Victoria, Kure, and Michael spend the episode on a porch-delivery incident where a driver allegedly threw a Timu package, smelled strongly of marijuana, and left a finger hole in the box.
It starts like a party.
The hosts apologize for a three-week absence due to the wife's two surgeries and discuss her recovery.
The hosts share hilarious pranks and playful banter from their daily lives.