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Coming Home traces the lives of three women from childhood to adulthood through their experiences of homelessness, to eventually finding safety and a place to call home. Hosted by Kate Lawrence, this podcast looks deeply at how women's homelessness is fundamentally different to men's and the systemic drivers that lead to women becoming homeless: gender inequality, economic disadvantage, family violence, and the unaffordable housing market in Australia. From Juno, this is Coming Home.Support Juno's work here: https://juno.org.au/support-us/

As a boy, Fred fell in love with the game of cricket, it gave him his route through life; out on the pitch he felt at home. Through his eyes we see: the very first time he picks up a bat, getting out first ball; the walk on to the pitch to face the Aussies in 2005; face-downs with rivals; run-ins with the media; the doctors telling him he can't continue to play. After retiring, Fred thought he'd left the game behind, relaunching himself in the world of entertainment, but following the car crash that turned his life upside down, it was cricket to which he returned.

In Coming Home Again, celebrated novelist Chang-rae Lee, author of On Such a Full Sea and Native Speaker, recalls the year he spent living at home, learning to cook the Korean dishes of his childhood, before his mother died of stomach cancer. An achingly personal story about love, grief, and regret, Coming Home Again confronts the decisions we can't take back and the moments we can't let go with astounding grace and poignancy.

Coming Home – With Daryl Murrow is a healing podcast for soul-aligned seekers, spiritual creatives, and midlife truth-tellers. Each week, Daryl shares raw, unfiltered reflections on emotional healing, personal transformation, and what it really means to come home to who you truly are — especially in the second half of life. New episodes drop every Tuesday. If you're navigating a midlife awakening, healing from codependency or people-pleasing, or learning to live with more authenticity and self-trust… you're not alone. These honest, heart-centered episodes explore the sacred middle — ...

Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball struggling to navigate life, girls, drugs, and his own identity in America’s heartland—and having a blast doing it. Reggie Watts is weird. But you knew that. Anyone who’s seen his...

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book...

Coming Home Well Network presents a podcast about all things government or military, mainly their shenanigans. Jenn is a retired Navy Aviator and Page is a civilian with a lot of questions. Together they add humor to some heavy stories about government cover-ups, murders, spies, military, the 3 letter agencies, Presidents, conspiracies, and maybe even aliens. Listen now!

‘Raw, intense and absorbing.’ Matt Haig ‘As tender and funny as it is painful.’ TLS ‘I didn’t give my hands much thought before they turned against me. … They have been chipping away at my life, slowly, slowly, in a way I could never have predicted.’ Lauren Brown is anxious. And...

One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980’s Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York. A memoir...

In the vein of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy comes a young woman’s memoir chronicling her harrowing journey from despair to salvation that showcases the depths and resilience of the human spirit and empowers readers on their own paths toward healing, forgiveness, and redemption. Carrie...

An “extraordinary” (Laurie Halse Anderson) young poet traces the lives of her foremothers in West Tennessee, from those enslaved centuries ago to her grandmother, her mother, and finally herself, in this stunning debut celebrating Black girlhood and womanhood throughout American history...