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Conversation Balloons

Conversation Balloons

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 Host Leah Farish interviews experts and friends about all things generational. No matter your age or stage, whether you're growing or growing old, you wonder at, fume at, or love someone in another generation. It might be workplace issues, raising kids, or caring for an elder--We're here to bring understanding, solutions, empathy, and a little fun to intergenerational relationships. Our conversation balloons hover over thorny social problems and pop with insight about how to handle them. Some of our guests are scholarly, some faith-based, some rich only in lived experience.Conversation Balloons Social Sciences
Episodes
  • 95. Don't Bet on 'Em w/ Johnathan Cohen

    95. Don't Bet on 'Em w/ Johnathan Cohen
    Oct 29 2025

    The recent NBA sports betting bust highlights only one of the online gambling problems corrupting young men, who are becoming addicted to gambling via sports betting in record numbers. Expert Jonathan Cohen lays out why online betting is not your father's gaming experience and how it is ruining lives with breathtaking speed. Even children are at risk with this new frictionless technology for losing money. We offer tips on protecting young people from this alluring danger.

    Additional resources:

    Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling by Jonathan Cohen
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    44 mins
  • 94. Addicted Kid becomes Liberated Man w/ Nolan Jones

    94. Addicted Kid becomes Liberated Man w/ Nolan Jones
    Oct 22 2025

    Nolan Jones brings us up to date in his eventful life overcoming the demons of his past. We've never had such a story of transformation on this show!
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    41 mins
  • 93. A Childhood in Drugs and Neglect w/ Nolan Jones

    93. A Childhood in Drugs and Neglect w/ Nolan Jones
    Oct 16 2025

    Nolan Jones describes a rough childhood where virtually every adult in the family dealt drugs, and abuse was a way of life. Homeless as a teen, Nolan managed to graduate from high school, but not from drugs and criminality. Some glimmers of hope you'll hear in this episode burst into full light in the next, so tune in twice!
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    30 mins
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