Everyday Conversations with Amin Mombani is a conversation show built on unscripted, real conversations — real people, real stories, real transformation.
Twice a week, host Amin Mombani sits down with guests from every walk of life — entrepreneurs, coaches, artists, survivors, and everyday people with extraordinary stories — to talk honestly about the messy middle of building a life worth living. Just the kind of conversation you'd have with a friend who actually wants to know how you're doing.
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#25 Just Be Present With the Child You Have — Dr. Lasha Crowell Seaman on Co-Parenting, Letting Go & Choosing Connection
She raised her own kids while finishing her doctorate. Herfamily opened its doors to 18 foreign exchange students. And through all of it, she landed on one belief that now guides everything she teaches.
In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits downwith Dr. Lasha Crowell Seaman — founder of Bridges & Roots Family Services — for a conversation about co-parenting, letting go of control, and what it actually takes to keep showing up for your family when life doesn't go the way you planned.
🎙️ In this episode:
- Why connection beats perfection — and correction — everytime
- The exchange student she almost wasn't allowed to host,and the Swedish daughter and grandchildren it gave her
- What it actually feels like, as a parent, to let go of anexpectation your child never agreed to
- The biggest myth about families going through supervisedvisitation and court-ordered co-parenting
- Why 3,000 kids a year in Northern Colorado alone are goingthrough divorce or custody situations — and how to access her classes from anywhere
- What repair actually looks like inside her own house,including when her kids call her out on it
💬 "Just be presentwith the child that you have." — Lasha
💬 "You can getthrough anything." — Lasha
💬 "Your familydoesn't need you to be perfect — it needs you to keep showing up." — Amin
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 Cold open
01:30 What Dr. Lasha actually does
02:07 Why this generation is struggling with parenting
04:11 Which chapter of her expanding life taught her themost
05:09 The Swedish exchange daughter and two grandchildren
08:54 The biggest myth about supervised visitation families
09:48 3,000 kids a year, just in Northern Colorado
11:27 Accountability vs. blame
13:42 Letting go of control — her oldest son's education
20:35 How exchange students changed her own family
21:09 What repair actually looks like in her house
22:18 If you're in the messy middle right now
22:53 Wildcard: hangers, handwriting, and her youngest son
Contact Details for Guest — Dr. Lasha Crowell Seaman
Website: brfamilies.org
Social media: Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Instagram,Alignable — search "Lasha Crowell Seaman" or "Dr. Lasha S.Crowell"
Organization: Bridges & Roots Family Services
Contact Details for Host
Amin Mombani - Host
Email: Mombanipodcast@gmail.com
Website: https://aminmombani.podview.com
Youtube Link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoXPESGBAlhpbeWg_E7Hrw
Spotify Link:https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZ
Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-conversations-with-amin-mombani/id6782858287
CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id7284639?country=us
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amin-mombani-29979721/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592072735008
#EverydayConversations #AminMombani #coparenting#positiveparenting #familyconnection
7 Oct 2026
#24 - I am Serving Out My Sentence With My Father - Dominque on Parental Incarceration and Advocacy & Refusing to Let Girls Be Forgotten
She was born into a sentence she never committed. Her father has spent her entire life behind the walls of a Louisiana state penitentiary.In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits down with Dominque Jones-Johnson — founder of Daughters Beyond Incarceration (DBI), an organization that has now stood beside over 100 girls living the exact childhood she once lived. In this conversation: parental incarceration, building an organization out of her own unhealed wound, and why she refuses to let these girls be forgotten.🎙️ In this episode:- What it actually looked like, day to day, growing up with a father in prison in New Orleans- The moment she realized a national nonprofit was profiting off her story while giving her almost nothing back- What a girl in her program actually needs to hear in her first week — hint: it's not advice- How her father, even from behind bars, has shaped DBI's biggest strategic decisions- Her relationship with her father today — and the one line that changed how she sees it: "here I am serving out my sentence with my father"- Her message to anyone with a loved one in prison: stop saying "inmate." Say "mommy" or "daddy."💬 "Here I am serving out my sentence with my father." — Dominque💬 "We call them mommy or daddy." — Dominque💬 "You can love someone the system took from you, and still build something it never gave you." — Amin⏱️ Timestamps:00:42 Cold open02:36 Who is Dominque, really?03:48 Growing up with a father the system took06:42 From track and field to a criminal justice degree08:17 The moment DBI had to become an organization09:38 Refusing to let girls become a "research population"12:20 Credentialed advocate, still-healing daughter14:40 What a girl needs most in her first week16:33 Still closing prison bars after 43 years22:42 Her relationship with her father today26:25 Building DBI "along with" her father32:57 Parenting from Prison — the second initiative33:25 Her message to listenersContact Details for Guest — Dominque Jones-JohnsonOrganization: Daughters Beyond Incarceration (DBI)Social media: @DBINOLA on all platformsWebsite: www.dbi-nola.orgPhone: (504) 766-7499Second initiative: Parenting from PrisonContact Details for HostAmin Mombani - HostEmail: Mombanipodcast@gmail.comWebsite: https://aminmombani.podview.comYoutube Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoXPESGBAlhpbeWg_E7HrwSpotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-conversations-with-amin-mombani/id6782858287CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id7284639?country=usLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amin-mombani-29979721/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592072735008🎧 Also available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZ#EverydayConversations #AminMombani #parentalincarceration #nonprofitfounder #advocacy
4 Oct 2026
#23 - You Know You've Hit Your Passion When You Hear Castanets — Lynn Dannheisser on 40 Years of Law, Corruption & the Novel It Became
Forty years inside the machinery of government gave her afront-row seat to exactly how corruption happens. So she wrote a novel about it.
In this episode of Everyday Conversations, Amin sits downwith Lynn Dannheisser — a retired attorney of 40 years, 30 of them as a city attorney — to talk about her debut thriller Where Nobody Knows Her Name, the real moments that inspired it, and why she believes there's life after practicing law.
🎙️ In this episode:
- Being one of the first three women at the largest privatelaw firm in Florida
- What it's actually like sitting as the "guardrail" against corruption inside city government
- The real detail from the Florida Keys that planted the seed for a novel about money laundering, gun trafficking, and murder
- Why she says writing fiction gave her access to a compassion the law never had room for
- Her next book, about a hoarder's widow who finds 14 million dollars hidden in the house
- The moment she knew she'd found her real passion — and how you'll know when you find yours
💬 "You know you've hit your passion when you hear castanets." — Lynn
💬 "Writing is an obsession. It's an addiction." — Lynn
💬 "It's everyday conversations, but it requires everyday courage to have those conversationstoo." — Amin
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:11 Cold open
01:51 Who is Lynn, really?
04:01 40 years watching how power actually works
06:53 The real moment that planted the novel's seed
09:17 Where passion and compassion pulled in differentdirections
11:30 Where Nobody Knows Her Name — the story behind thetitle
12:58 Bonita Key as "an unspoken character"
14:35 The lawyer vs. the novelist
17:52 Her favorite character she's ever written
20:09 Writing from real people — and what her sister thought
28:09 The Renaissance Woman — which identity talks to theothers
30:31 You know you've hit your passion when you hearcastanets
33:39 Her advice for anyone who wants to write but hasn'tstarted
36:14 Wildcard: the whipped cream container disaster
Contact Details for Guest — Lynn Dannheisser
Website: lynnmdannheisserauthor.com (https://lynnmdannheisser.com/home)
Email: Danheiserbooks@gmail.com (lynn@lynnmdannheisserbooks.com)
Book: Where Nobody Knows Her Name — available on Amazon,Kobo Books, Apple Books, and anywhere books are sold
Threads and Instagram: @lynnmdannheisserauthor (samegoes on Facebook and LinkedIn)
Contact Details for Host
Amin Mombani - Host
Email: Mombanipodcast@gmail.com
Website: https://aminmombani.podview.com
Youtube Link:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIoXPESGBAlhpbeWg_E7Hrw
Spotify Link:https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZ
Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-conversations-with-amin-mombani/id6782858287
CastBox: https://castbox.fm/channel/id7284639?country=us
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amin-mombani-29979721/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61592072735008
🎧 Also available onSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033CGyVtUGh2KFJ0MJypEZ
#EverydayConversations #AminMombani #followyourpassion#legalthriller #authorlife
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