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Once Upon an Upset is a podcast of stories and conversations to help make sense of difficult times, for kids and parents. New episodes every Wednesday! (All episodes written, performed and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane, and all music made by Jerome Rossen at Freshmade Music.) I also started another podcast for adults only—Once Upon an Upset-The Interviews—where I interview people about topics such as mental health and parenting. And if you’re interested in listening to my memoir-based podcast for adults about my mother, who passed unexpectedly in 2016, it’s called A Woman Called ...

Once Upon an Upset — The Interviews This podcast contains interviews only, about topics such as mental health and parenting, based on the content from my other podcast for kids and parents: Once Upon an Upset, stories and conversations to help make sense of difficult times. For adults only. New episodes on occasion. To listen to my other podcast, the Once Upon an Upset Podcast for kids and parents, please visit www.onceuponanupset.com.

In this very entertaining audiobook, you’ll meet a nervous butterfly who just wants to stay inside her cocoon. You'll meet a little bird who swallows a cell phone and inadvertently offends all the other birds with his new chirp. You'll meet a little seed who is very tired of waiting to blossom. You’ll meet a man who is really a pigeon deep down inside. You’ll meet a little girl who eats way too many sweets. You’ll meet a little boy who finds out it's pretty lonely to be better than everyone else. Plus much more!

My mother passed unexpectedly in 2016. She was brilliant and hysterically funny but also suffered a lot. In A Woman Called Mother, I share the stories and scenes I collected from our time together, and also the stories and scenes I’ve been collecting from my present perspective since becoming a mother myself. I’m taking a break from posting because I’m working on finishing my memoir about my relationship with my mother. I will update once I have a release date for the book. Thank you! (I also have a podcast for kids and parents called Once Upon an Upset.)