Who is Stephanie Wittels Wachs?
Join host Stephanie Wittels Wachs, as she confronts massive epidemics with humanity, wit, and a quest for progress.
What was it like to shoot with Wachs on the Walking Dead?
“It was wild,” Wachs said. “I loved these people. We had so much fun together. Loved shooting guns. It’s super thrilling to try to hit that little iron metal thing and then hear the ‘ding.’ I’m like: I could do this all day.”
Did Wachs ever touch a gun in her life?
But aside from learning to disguise her emotions, Wachs has tried to leave some of her biases and judgments at the door. She had never touched a firearm in her life, and as a self-proclaimed “coastal elite” she always felt America’s guns should be confiscated and melted into an art sculpture.
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Move forward
Lemonada’s name runs contrary to the way many of us deal with grief. Both Wittels Wachs and Cordova Kramer endured sharp, severe and personal loss, and both spent time processing their grief. They met because Cordova Kramer reached out to Wittels Wachs, who wrote a memoir about her brother’s addiction and death and her grief.
Changing the world
Early in the coronavirus crisis, Wittels Wachs and Cordova Kramer got an email from Slavitt on a Saturday asking about the possibility of producing a pandemic podcast. By Wednesday, “In the Bubble” was live.
Who is Jackie's high school therapist?
We are back with an encore episode to respond to all of your amazing feedback over the course of the season. Stephanie, Jackie and Dr. Robin Hornstein (Jackie’s high school therapist who you might remember from episode 10) answer listener voicemails, emails, and DMs about season two.
Who is the host of Crackdown?
Stephanie sits down with Garth Mullins, who hosts an award-winning podcast in Canada called Crackdown, which is also about drugs. The difference? Garth is coming at it from the perspective of a drug user. The plan was to talk about international solutions and Garth's recent reporting in Portugal (which they do discuss) but they also compare notes as two podcasters making shows based on personal trauma. And in the process, Stephanie has a huge revelation.
How to contact Trevor Project?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Crisis Text line: Text “Connect” to 741-741 The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386 To follow along with a transcript and/or take notes for friends and family, go to https://www.lemonadamedia.com/show/last-day shortly after the air date.
Birth of a Network
In 2018 when Wachs’s memoir was published, she and her mother were guests on the Terrible, Thanks for Asking podcast and made a life-changing impact on one listener in particular, Jessica Cordova Kramer executive producer of Crooked Media’s award-winning Pod Save the People.
Beyond the Last Day
In the beginning, Wachs and Kramer focused on creating one podcast, which would become Last Day, an expansive focus on the opioid crisis through the story of the last day in the life of Stefano and others. Though the duo found interest when they shopped the idea to other podcast networks, no company was quite ready to go with them on the endeavor.
Monuments to Harris
Though many aspects of her life have changed this year, Wachs finds the creative skills she used as an educator, actor and director have fueled her new role as an up and coming media mogul.
Who is the wife of the Wachs family?
Wachs is married to Mike “Wax” Wachs. They have a daughter born in 2014 and a son named after her younger brother, Harris Wittels, born in 2018.
Who is Wachs on Lemonada?
Wachs also serves as Chief Content Officer and Executive Producer for Lemonada Media’s other slated podcasts, including Our America with Julián Castro, Tell Me What to Do with Jaime Primak Sullivan, and The Untold Story: Policing.
Who is the author of Everything is Horrible and Wonderful?
Wachs is the author of Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss, a memoir about addiction, grief, and healing. Her other writing can be found on Vox, Longform, Huffington Post, Fatherly, Babble, and Medium.
Who is the host of Last Day?
She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the theatre company Rec Room Arts in Houston, Texas and the Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of the podcast network Lemonada Media. Wachs also serves as the host of the podcast Last Day.