A podcast that explores the complex, sometimes beautiful, sometimes painful relationships of mothers and daughters. Each episode host, Susan Seal, sits down with a daughter(s) whose mother has passed, and they explore the story of her mother as well as the complexities of their relationship and what it means to carry forward the inheritance that was passed down.
The podcast launched with 3 episodes the week of Mother's Day 2026. New episodes drop on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.
Publisher
Susan Seal
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health & fitness · society & culture · society & culture
Season 2 of A Daughter's Inheritance begins on the other side of the world! Chieko Iwata, who lives in Tokyo, Japan was influenced by two mothers: her biological Japanese mother and her Norwegian host mother, whom she met as a 16-year-old exchange student in New Jersey. The two women never met and never shared a language, but both shaped who she is. Chieko talks about growing up in a traditional multigenerational household, her parents' arranged marriage that grew into love, and the feeling o...
16 Sept 2026
Kick It Into High Gear
Jessica DuPont, interim Vice Provost of Oregon State University's Division of eCampus, joins Susan to talk about her mother, Laura Lynn Gloss, the oldest of six kids from a tight knit Polish Catholic family in Wisconsin, who spent a year in the convent before leaving to finish college, marry, and raise a family with high energy, no napping momentum. Laura became a beloved teacher and elementary school principal, and even Jessica's teacher, on a U.S. military base in Germany. Jessica shares ho...
2 Sept 2026
Somewhere On a Beach
Jen Fowlkes joins Susan to talk about her mother, Martha Vandora McElhannon, a Birmingham, Alabama native, straight-A student, who married her high school sweetheart but became a single mother of two, remarried a race car driver, and found her deepest peace sitting on a beach with a book in hand. Jen traces the threads connecting generations of strong-willed women: her grandmother, a farm girl from Alabama's oldest farmhouse, and her mother, whose aspirations shifted when life — and children ...
19 Aug 2026
I Write Because She Couldn't
Donna Ladd was in the third grade when her mother sat her down and said the words she'd never forget: "I can't read or write. I'm gonna need you to help me do my business." In this episode, award-winning journalist and Mississippi Free Press co-founder Donna Ladd talks about her mother, Katie May Coates Ladd, a woman kept home from school to cook for field hands, married at fourteen in the middle of a road so no one could stop it, and yet one of the sharpest, funniest, most clear-eyed p...
5 Aug 2026
Two to Tango: Lorene “Allie” Wright Clevinger
In this episode of A Daughter's Inheritance, host Susan Seal talks with Dr. Donna Clevinger, professor and senior faculty fellow in Mississippi State's Shackouls Honors College, about the mother who shaped her life on and off the stage. Donna shares memories of her mother, a spirited young woman who came of age in 1940s Virginia, met her husband-to-be at the YMCA, and was pulled out of pharmacy school the moment she got engaged. Two decades later, she went back to school for agriculture...
22 Jul 2026
Miss Kat, The Beauty Shop Counselor
This week on A Daughter's Inheritance, I'm joined by my colleague and friend Gail Miller, who works alongside me at the College of Professional and Continuing Studies. Gail shares the story of her mother, Mary Catherine Williams, known to everyone as "Miss Kat", a beautician for over 50 years whose chair became a place for more than just haircuts. Gail talks about growing up around the quilt frame at her grandmother's house, the community of women who helped raise her while her mother worked,...
15 Jul 2026
Playing the Hand You're Dealt
In this episode of A Daughter's Inheritance, Susan sits down with Kate Salter Gregory, Associate Professor and Director of the Mississippi Political Collections at Mississippi State University Libraries who has learned to make the most of whatever situation she was in. "You play the hand that you're dealt" was a mantra for the women who came before her. Kate shares the story of her mother, a confident, intelligent, endlessly curious woman who built a career in economic development...
1 Jul 2026
Discovering Joy, A Restless Pioneer
She was impatient, restless, and by her own daughter's admission, a bit of a hot mess. But Joy Griner was also a pioneer, a woman who grew up in the hills of West Virginia in the 1930s and spent a lifetime pushing back against what the world told her she was supposed to be. In this episode, Susan sits down with Emily Noble, a Starkville educator, to explore the life of her mother Joy, a librarian and PhD, who found her truest self only after she stopped trying to be someone else. Emily reflec...
17 Jun 2026
Recognizing Her Strength
In this episode, I sit down with Diana Eubanks, DVM for a moving conversation about her mother Diane, a woman who once confessed that "apple pie and motherhood" might not be her thing. Their relationship wasn't always the best, and Diana's dad didn't help, but later in life, they grew closer. From a friendship forged in Girl Scouts that lasted a lifetime, to a card Diana discovered carrying words she didn't know she needed. This is a story about the strength that only reveals itself thr...
3 Jun 2026
Fear Finds Faith
Rhonda DiBiase grew up a Mississippi Delta girl and lives 12 miles from the town where she was born. She was shaped by a mother who never claimed to have all the answers but somehow always knew just what to say. In this conversation, the author of Fear Finds Faith shares memories of a woman who was funny, faithful, a little bit mischievous, and almost always "thoughty." These stories of Rhonda's mother, Linda Baker, will make you laugh out loud and just might inspire you to drop a card ...
6 May 2026
Absent, But Ever-Present
Losing a mother is difficult at any age but losing her as a toddler creates a longing that can shape an entire life. In this episode, Nina Rivenburgh opens up about what it means to grow up without her mother, who stepped in to nurture her, how she found connection across the absence, and why the bond between a daughter and the mother she barely knew can still feel remarkably, alive. Visit https://adaughtersinheritance.com
6 May 2026
The Hankins Girls Remember
The mother-daughter relationship is complicated enough on its own. Add siblings to the conversation, and things get really interesting. In this episode, Susan sits down with three of four sisters to explore how one woman shaped each of them differently, and what that has meant for the relationships they have with each other. Shared memories, different experiences, and the mother who lives in all of them. Visit https://adaughtersinheritance.com
6 May 2026
Bobbie Seal, Where it Begins
In this first episode, Susan introduces the heart behind the podcast and the woman who inspired it, her mother, Bobbie Seal. Through conversation with her cousin Linda Weir, Susan begins to trace the outline of a life that shaped her own, sharing the memories, values, and laughter, and how the wisdom of her mother (in her own voice) continues to echo across generations. Visit https://adaughtersinheritance.com
9 Feb 2026
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In this trailer, host Susan Seal introduces A Daughter's Inheritance, a podcast about the intangible legacies mothers leave behind. Through conversations with daughters, the series explores the values, wisdom, and life lessons that become our most precious inheritance. However, not all mother-daughter relationships are easy or uncomplicated, and this podcast honors that truth by reflecting the full range of experiences, from deeply loving bonds to complex and difficult ones. Join us as we exp...
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