Podcast Episodes

No Accidents Here: Alon Rivel on Intentional Gay Parenting

Season 20 Episode 10

Alon Rivel joins Jaimie for a brutally honest, funny, and heartfelt conversation about what it really takes—emotionally, financially, and spiritually—to build a queer family through surrogacy. From h…

Published on 12 hours ago

Mark & Eoin: Two Irish Dads, Two Daughters, and a Fight for Change

Season 20 Episode 9

Meet Mark and Eoin, two Irish dads proving that queer family building is both an act of love and of advocacy. Their path to fatherhood took them from Ireland to New York and Texas—navigating surrogac…

Published on 1 week ago

From Cult Upbringing to Queer Co-Parenting

Season 20 Episode 8

What happens when you grow up in an evangelical cult, spend years closeted, marry to appease your family, and still find your way to queerness, healing, and chosen family? Therapist and author SC Nea…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Breaking the Binary: Maya Gonzalez and the Gender Wheel

Season 20 Episode 7

In this mind-expanding conversation, Jaimie sits down with Maya Gonzalez — genderqueer artist, author, publisher, educator, parent, and creator of The Gender Wheel — an innovative, nature-based frame…

Published on 3 weeks ago

The Bio/Non-Bio Myth: Why Love, Not DNA, Makes a Family

Season 20 Episode 6

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Kevin and Alim—longtime partners, dads of two, and global citizens—share how they built their family through Canadian surrogacy, what they looked for in an egg donor, an…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Screens, Teens, and Privilege: Positive Discipline and Tech Limits with Casey O’Roarty

Season 20 Episode 5

Screens are everywhere — but how do we keep them from taking over our kids’ lives? In this special ally episode, Jaimie sits down with Casey O’Roarty, a positive discipline trainer, parent coach, and…

Published on 1 month ago

Two Dads, One Mom, Zero Apologies | Therapist Ann Russo on Religious Trauma, Chosen Family & Queer Joy

Season 20 Episode 4

Queer therapist and “kid of queer parents” Ann Russo joins Jaimie to show what ordinary, extraordinary queer family looks like. Raised in the ’80s by a mom, dad, and dad’s partner under one roof—publ…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Jesse Callans: Transitioning While Parenting Four Kids + Writing Ollie in Between

Season 20 Episode 3

Transmasc author and parent Jesse Callans joins Jaimie to flip the parenting script. Jesse shares how he pressed pause on transition to build a family (surprise—then three more!), what it looked like…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

What the New LGBTQ+ Study Really Says—And Why It Matters for Queer Families With Orion Rummler (The 19th) & Pew’s Rachel Minkin

Season 20 Episode 2

We went in-studio (!) with journalist Orion Rummler (The 19th) and Rachel Minkin (Pew Research Center, and a gay mom) to unpack Pew’s major 2025 study of LGBTQ+ Americans—released around the 10-year …

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

José Rolón (NYC Gay Dad) and Luce Remy (Family Equality): Why LGBTQ+ Family Policy Helps Everyone

Season 20 Episode 1

In this Season 20 opener, Jaimie sits down in person (for the first time in years!) with two powerhouse voices in the LGBTQIA+ family-building world: José Rolón (aka NYC Gay Dad) and Luce Remey (VP o…

Published on 2 months ago