We lived in the same building for three years and never met.
Same parking lot. Same mail room. Same losses, it turns out — fathers who died around the same time, kids who grew up and grew complicated at the same time, mirrors we were both avoiding at the same time. Two women quietly burning down in adjacent units, and neither one knew.
This is the episode where we tell you how we finally found each other — a Facebook group gone sideways, a two-second mail room encounter, a pool, a mutual friend — and what happened after. April 1, 2023: the day we stopped asking who would I be without this weight in a journal and started answering it out loud, together.
Saturday afternoon. A glass of wine. A microphone Shannon was supposedly just learning to use. We figured — why the hell not. So here it is, unpolished and true: how The Second Fire started.
Not because we figured it out. Because we knew it was needed — and we’re still figuring it out.
If a woman came to mind while you listened — forward her this.Burn responsibly. 🔥
— Laura & Shannon
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This Can't Be It.
Episode one: two women, one building, three years of never meeting — and the night we finally hit record.
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The Second Fire is where women stop performing the lives they built and start authoring the lives they are here to live. Writing that names your life, videos that light it, conversations that don't flinch. No fluff. No permission. Just fire.
The Second Fire is where women stop performing the lives they built and start authoring the lives they are here to live. Writing that names your life, videos that light it, conversations that don't flinch. No fluff. No permission. Just fire.Appears in episode
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