Episode 16 - Stacey Powells on life breakdowns, living through the hardest times, to becoming an author

From Loss to Light

In Episode 16 we chat with Stacey Powells on her breakdown to eventual author and how she has managed her struggles with great drive and empathy and humor towards others. She is funny and shares so many "AHA" moments that many of us journey through. Her journey through life is interesting from the beginning as she shares her dad's career as "THE" Beverly Hills Pharmacist to her job at Paramount pictures and her untimely divorce to a benign cancer scare and so much more.

She is a published writer and journalist since 1996, Stacey’s articles and news pieces have covered everything from parenting issues, local news, travel, and a hodgepodge of everything else. Her work has appeared in several magazines including Island’s and Divulge. Her book of personal essays, Empty Cupboards, launched on Amazon September 2022, reaching #1 in several categories. She co-edited and contributed to the newly released anthology, “We See You, We Hear You,” and she has been a featured guest on several podcasts. Her play Stirrups was a 2016 New York Theater Festival selection an continues to be produced nationwide. Stacey’s TV interview show, “Slightly Filtered,” is streamed on lpptv.us.

You can purchase her book Empty Cupboards on amazon by clicking the title name. You can also purchase the We See You, We Hear You on Amazon. You can also find any of the writing classes that Stacey chatted about here: Story Summit. They have paid and FREE online writing classes as well.

***NOTE: we are using a new program and we had some connection/audio issues so we apologize if this episode seems a little broken in spots, but we portrayed all our points the best we could!! Thank you for the patience and understanding.