Ann Kagarise
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Candid conversations about caregiving, resilience, grief, parenting, and purpose.
Real Talk with Tina and Ann is an interview-driven show about resilience, caregiving, parenting, grief, women’s lives, and the complicated work of staying honest through hard seasons. Hosts Tina and Ann bring personal and professional experience to conversations with guests who have lived through loss, illness, family pressure, reinvention, and advocacy. The tone is intimate and reflective, often moving between practical advice, emotional candor, and stories of purpose after pain.
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Real Talk with Tina and Ann centers on long-form conversations about the parts of life people often carry quietly. The hosts regularly speak with guests about caregiving, grief, dementia, parenting, menopause, self-worth, creativity, and personal reinvention. Tina and Ann’s own backgrounds shape the show: they met as journalists covering a capital murder trial, and Ann’s counseling, jail-system, shelter, autism, and parenting experience gives many conversations a grounded human-service lens. Episodes often pair personal storytelling with practical questions about how families cope, how caregivers survive, and how people find voice after being silenced. In one episode, Debra Weed discusses grief, hospice, creative work, and the idea that joy and sorrow can exist together. Angela Burk’s conversation reframes midlife and menopause as subjects deserving honesty rather than dismissal. Randi Crawford’s parenting episode focuses on resilience, accountability, teen anxiety, social media pressure, and letting children practice independence. Marilyn Rakel’s dementia conversation explores ambiguous loss, care partner burnout, dignity, and the ways connection can remain even as memory changes. The show is not a quick advice format; it tends to sit with emotional complexity and let guests tell layered stories. Listeners should expect candid, empathetic interviews about family, loss, aging, advocacy, and rebuilding a sense of purpose.
Made for: This show is for listeners drawn to personal, emotionally honest interviews about family life, caregiving, aging, grief, women’s health, and resilience.
What sets it apart: The show blends journalistic curiosity with lived experience in counseling, caregiving, special needs parenting, and trauma-informed community work.
Tina and Ann met as journalists covering a capital murder trial, 15 years ago. Tina has been a tv and radio personality and has three children. Ann has a master's in counseling and has worked in the jail system, was a director of a battered woman's shelter/rape crisis center, worked as an assistant director at a school for children with autism, worked with abused kids and is currently raising her three children who have autism. She also is autistic and was told would not graduate high school, but as you can see, she has accomplished so much more. The duo...
Hard conversations arrive with hope attached, so you can face caregiving, grief, and midlife without flinching.
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A tender, grounded look at caregiving, grief, and the kind of presence memory loss cannot erase.
This episode stays with dementia, but what lingers most is the way love and identity hold together when memory starts to slip. Marilyn Rakel talks about caring for both parents, the shock of stepping into caregiving, and the surprising way her mother's artistic side opened room…
A warm grief conversation that keeps returning to pride, faith, and the pull toward joy.
Debra Weed's return to Real Talk with Tina and Anne stays close to grief, but it does not stay stuck there. The conversation makes room for joy, creativity, and the Quills Up movement, which gives the episode a steady center.
A candid midlife conversation that treats aging as a comeback chapter rather than a decline.
The episode treats midlife as a reset, not a collapse, and Angela's story gives that idea real shape. She talks through hormones, humor, identity, and the changes that followed her last son, a divorce, and the work of holding steady for her three boys.
A grounded parenting conversation about accountability, resilience, and knowing when to step back.
Randi Crawford, a certified life coach, TEDx speaker, and author of the upcoming Pickleball Parenting Playbook, pushes for a steadier kind of parenting: more accountability, more emotional resilience, and less rushing in to fix everything.
Great books, taken chapter by chapter, with delight
Book talk with room to wander.
Clinical psychologist Dr.
Tina and Anne speak with Marilyn Rakel about Alzheimer's, caregiving, and connection.
Two friends share their personal experiences with grief and raising children with autism, emphasizing honesty and meeting people where they are.
An interview with Nancy Scheer discussing her relationship with conductor Leopold Stokowski and its impact on her life and art.
Tina and Anne discuss living without timelines, challenging societal expectations around progress, healing, and neurodivergence.
Anne welcomes Debra Weed back to the show.
Interview with a breast cancer survivor and author about her irreverent guide to crushing breast cancer.
This episode explores how showing up for others in their suffering transforms the giver, revealing identity and purpose through compassion.
The episode opens with a dramatic scene from a book about the U.S.-Mexico border and introduces a guest who runs a charitable foundation building homes and communities there.
Part two of a conversation about living with FASD, exploring shame, identity, and support systems.
Anne opens by framing aging as a comeback chapter.
Anne opens the conversation on the pressure parents feel raising kids today.
Host Anne interviews novelist Leslie Rasmussen about her new book 'When People Leave' and her career in writing for TV and film.
Host with ADHD interviews an ADHD advocate about living with ADHD, addiction, and depression, and turning challenges into strengths.
This episode features Dr.
Interview with children's author Sarah Sparks about her Monsters on Mill Street series, which helps kids navigate emotions and challenges.
This episode features an interview with author Amy Weinland Daughters about her humorous and heartfelt memoir that explores time travel back to 1978 to reconnect with her 10-year-old self and family secrets.
This episode features an interview with Rebecca Galli discussing how to navigate profound life challenges like paralysis, loss, and autism with humor and resilience while finding purpose and joy.