Life doesn't come with a legal brief, but it does come with hard chapters — divorce, abuse, addiction, adoption, depression, and everything in between. Attorney Elizabeth Porter sits down with friends and former clients to talk openly about the moments that nearly broke them and what got them through. No scripts, no filters — just honest conversation, practical tools, and the kind of hard-won wisdom you only get from people who've actually been there. Think of it as the talk you needed to have with someone who's already walked the road you're standing on. Hosted by Elizabeth Porter — Mississippi attorney, advocate, and firm believer that surviving something is only half the story.
Law and Porter
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Life doesn't come with a legal brief, but it does come with hard chapters — divorce, abuse, addiction, adoption, depression, and everything in between. Attorney Elizabeth Porter sits down with friends and former clients to talk openly about the moments that nearly broke them and what got them through. No scripts, no filters — just honest conversation, practical tools, and the kind of hard-won wisdom you only get from people who've actually been there. Think of it as the talk you needed to have with someone who's already walked the road you're standing on. Hosted by Elizabeth Porter — Mississippi attorney, advocate, and firm believer that surviving something is only half the story.
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Recent Episodes
July 28, 2026
I Was Never That Person: Emily Shares How She Overcame Grief and Addiction
<p dir="ltr">At 21, Emily Rhodes got a phone call that split her life into before and after. In the chaos following Hurricane Katrina, her father was shot and killed on the wrong side of town — a case that was never solved. Months later, a minor car wreck led to a prescription for pain medication, and Emily discovered it numbed something the doctors hadn't been treating: the grief she had no idea how to carry.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">What followed was years of addiction — first to prescription painkillers, then to street versions of the same relief — hidden from almost everyone who knew her, because, as she puts it, she was never supposed to be that person. This conversation traces that unraveling honestly, without shortcuts, alongside the slow work of recovery through her Catholic faith, a 12-step ministry called Catholic in Recovery, and a mother who refused to give up on her no matter how far it went.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Emily talks about rock bottom, about relapse, about the lies addiction tells you about who you are, and about her five-year-old daughter Lucy — deaf, hilarious, and her biggest cheerleader. It's a conversation about how grief and forgiveness can exist in the same body at the same time, and what it takes to believe you are more than your worst years.</p> <p> </p>
July 21, 2026
Widowed at 32: The Nights I Learned to Trust God in the Dark
<p dir="ltr">Stephanie Johnson married her high school sweetheart in 1998. Eleven years later, six months after his leukemia diagnosis, she buried him. She was 32 years old, with three children under seven — the youngest born in the middle of his treatment.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">In this conversation, Stephanie takes us back to the night before Jason's diagnosis was confirmed, when she says she fought a spiritual battle she couldn't yet name or explain to him. She describes the single practical conversation the two of them allowed themselves during six months of chemotherapy — a conversation neither of them wanted to finish. She talks about the hospital, the goodbye, and her three-year-old son showing up in rain boots on a clear day.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">Most of the episode lives in what came after: the specific hour every evening that became the hardest part of young widowhood, the fear that her children's futures were already written by statistics she couldn't stop thinking about, and the slow, cautious, sometimes guilt-laden path back toward loving someone new. She talks about a friend's dream that gave her something like permission, about introducing her kids to the man who would become their stepfather one at a time, and about a four-year-old's silent gift of a ceramic cross that meant more than words could have.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">The episode closes on the night her children — unprompted, on her wedding night — asked her new husband if they could call him dad.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">This is not a tidy story about grief resolving on schedule. It's an honest account of what it actually looks like to keep going: the nights that don't get easier for a long time, the community that carries you when you can't carry yourself, and a family that ends up whole again in a shape nobody would have chosen but everybody is grateful for.</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p dir="ltr">If you're walking through loss, remarriage, blended family life, or simply wondering whether faith holds up under real pressure, this conversation is for you.</p> <p> </p>
July 14, 2026
The Landslide Moment: Sara Hathorn on Choosing the Hard Path to Rebuild Her Life
<p dir="ltr">Sara Hathorn was driving her kids to the dry cleaner in a life that looked, from the outside, entirely put together — until a Dixie Chicks cover of "Landslide" came on the radio at a red light and she broke. That moment marks the hinge of this episode: the point where Sara stopped trying to fit a life built to satisfy everyone but herself, and started rebuilding one from $300 in the bank, a mortgage, and two small children.</p> <p dir="ltr">She talks candidly about the years that followed — cleaning offices at night after a full day writing insurance, an air mattress on her parents' floor, and the small, specific indignities of poverty, a dumped can of ravioli among them. But this isn't only a hardship story. Sara walks through the five-year plan she wrote by hand, the mentors who told her the truth about her own worth before she could believe it herself, and the practical, unglamorous steps — not just motivation — that got her from that red light to where she is now.</p> <p> </p>
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