I appreciated your recent podcast on Jan 14 leaving space for voices from multiple political perspectives. You have a wide audience but some comments can be quite biased against the middle.. people who just want to connect and find peace and not be filled with hate towards anyone but just put politics aside now and then and remember that we love each other.

Thank you for keeping it real. As a 34 year old first time mom, I appreciate the idea of Less is More even more than I could ever imagine and can’t wait to follow what you share of you new era.

Not even the full podcast episode but you’ll still have to listen/skip through ads

Nora thank you so much. Everything you say resonates so much with me. Your recent episode with Charles got me big time. I lost my husband this year after only 2 months of knowing he was sick. With a 13 year old and a kid in college I couldn’t face losing him even after he was gone. Even though my babies were grown they were forever changed and so was I. In my grief losing my person and their parent, this has helped me so much.

(This review is in reference to the Nov 5, 2024 crossover episode with Kate from Be There in Five.) First, it’s the James Webb telescope, not “James Webber” telescope. (Love you, Kate. I swear.) Second, can’t believe some idiot wrote in to Kate’s podcast to tell her that James Webb was homophobic. There’s an entire episode of The Daily (now paywalled, sadly) about how a Black man fought to right this myth.

Long time listener that no longer subscribed because I will not support anyone who is sponsored by Skims or anything to do with the Kardashian family

This show has broadened my understanding on what a family can be and makes me optimistic about how I can show up for my biological and chosen families :)

Great podcast. Very helpful during difficult times

This was my favorite podcast. Was really sad they ended the regular release of episodes. Wish they would bring this back.

Such an amazingly beautiful, heart wrenching podcast! Just discovered it. Have only listened to a few episodes, but man, these stories make you feel some stuff! It’s tough to come by something that makes you smile one sec, and rips your guts out the next. Just.... ❤️ I guess I wrote this, but didn’t send it back when I first discovered this podcast yeeears ago! I came here to leave a review and this popped up. I’ll leave it and go on to say what I came here to say. My best friends mom was diagnosed with brain cancer a little over a week ago. She went to the ER because she was experiencing weakness in her left arm. She left the ER with a brain cancer diagnosis. That was Friday. By Tuesday she was given the life expectancy of a year MAX. I recommended this podcast to my friend, I think it would be really helpful for her to hear other people’s stories. Their struggles and grief, but also that they come out of everything “ok”. They find joy in their lives again. I’ve never experienced anything that anyone on this podcast talks about, yet, these stories still give me hope. I think this podcast makes a difference.

I really enjoy this podcast. The title described it all of how I was coping with the grief I had. Thank you for having a format like this for people to go to when they need nothing more than me too I feel terrible thanks for asking.

I just listened to the episode about resiliency. Thank you for saying what needs to be said. I’m so tired of being tough. I can’t anymore. Thank you, Nora.

Dear TTFA family, You have been a mainstay in my grief process after the death of my son 8 years ago. I can’t tell you in words how much you all and your show have meant to me; to be real about grief in a world that is scared to face the “terrible”. I understand the changing forms of grief also and how change is a constant companion, morphing in subtle and sometimes expected but mostly unexpected ways. The progression on your show and your stories have served us all. I remember the show you did where you discussed how we often jump into big projects, foundations, etc. to help ourselves feel worthy of still living. That’s what I did and as I look back, I had so much adrenaline toward SO many things that I understand my body was helping me survive. And then down the line, we get tired and learn how to exist in a different way. Your time and efforts toward TTFA have made a huge impact on this world and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I wish you peace and joy.

Love the show. Sad it’s going on an indefinite hiatus. But just a warning for those that get bothered by mouth noises…I’m currently bingeing from the beginning and the mouth gooey noises that they don’t edit out really drive me insane! I listen to LOTS of storytelling podcasts and none of them have the amount of slobber sounds like this one. But yes the stories are so good and I love the empathy and compassion!

Thank You Nora!!!! (And Team)

This podcast has been by my side throughout it all. I am saddened that its come to an end. I don’t know about all of you but I’m binging through every single episode now. It feels good cause I wasn’t ready to say goodbye yet. ❤️❤️💔💔

I know that things don’t last forever. perhaps maybe you can continue in a different path but in the same neighborhood. When I was growing up, I was given the book titled “chicken soup for the teenage soul”. Reading about struggles of others really helped me not feel alone in the world. That is what this podcast has done for me as the adult that has experiences in trama and loss. Please oh please try to find your path back to us loyal listeners of Terrible, Thanks For Asking.

My therapy during my hardest parts of grief. Thank you to Nora, team and everyone who shared their stories. 💓 Forever and always my favorite podcast.

Thank you for all the amazing personal and listener stories shared through TTFA since 2016. I have thoroughly enjoyed TTFA. And while it's sad to hear you go it is with understanding and respect that we part ways. Sometimes we outgrow where we were. Sometimes we leave behind friends and listeners who aren't ready to stop pressing play. But sometimes it's just the right time to move forward. That doesn't mean we forget, it means we evolve and change and become ready for new adventure. "The only constant in life is change." Best to Nora and the team. Thank you, again, from a MN Terrible who fought her own cancer battle in the midst of your amazing podcast. 🫶🏽

I am Going to miss you!!!! I have listened for a few years now so I selfishly want you to stay but I am truly happy for you. I listened while at my boring accounting job and this show always made me have something to look forward to. Happy trails!

The writing fallacy and vocal fry are extremely annoying, especially in this episode. Nancy and Noa don’t love each other enough to marry. The relationship doesn’t work. It’s that simple, yet it takes 49 minutes to express that concept in elaborate and complex words. I won’t be listening again.

Has this ship already sailed? I think it’s “that horse already left the barn”. Here’s an example: Trump the FPOTUS: “Well, we’re not going to be a stupid country any more.” I think that horse/ship already left the barn/sailed”.

Nora! I have loved you and your show for a very long time!! You are an amazing empath - able to draw people and their stories out in a vulnerable and real way. I’m sorry to say that the people on your behind-the-scenes production staff do not have the same gift so please stop using them to drive episodes. I either get annoyed or start drifting off. YOU are the gift of the show!! Sorry Claire, Marcel, etc - they’re not Nora!!

I started listening to this podcast shortly before my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I really appreciate how earnest and empathetic Nora is, and she’s just hilarious- the kind of person I can imagine being friends with in real life. I am slowly making my way through older episodes and even those that I don’t relate to as much are just dripping with kindness and understanding. Thank you Nora and team for making this emotionally intense period of my life a little easier to bare.

I have a friend I called out for saying she is fine when her actions were not, actually she is not fine and struggling with depression. Saying fine for now but in reality she is hurting and scared. Being real with your feelings and having space to address the feelings is when saying you are fine is unfolded to uncover, discover and discard.

I totally can relate with her story being raised in a evangelical cult myself. Shes most likely suffering from Purity Culture Shame. It’s ingrained in us by the church messages or from any high control group where we are only as good as our last decision. I suffered until I “deconstructed” the view of myself in relation to those messages. It’s guilt and shame. It took me 40 years and a family tree “revision” sent to me by my father with my name removed to finally accept that I was released from my childhood contracts.

The vocal fry and the constant “like” is distracting.

I absolutely love this podcast and recommend it any chance I get! It has made me laugh and literally sob all in the same episode. Nora is an amazing story teller! You can truly hear and feel the empathy she feels for all the people who’s stories she shares. You can also tell how much time and effort is put into each episode to make sure these stories are told as delicately as possible. Thank you for what you have created here. I’m officially a subscriber and fan for life!

Just listened to episode “86 Sundays.” I also recently lost my sister on a Sunday too. Different circumstances, but Feliz told a beautiful story of a beautiful person. I also love Nora’s usual compassion and indignation at the idiocy of much of negative media response. Yes, people make mistakes, and no, do not deserve to die for them or be judged when they do. Live and live in Karina’s memory always!

One of my favorite podcast. Nora is a beautiful storyteller and asks poignant and thoughtful questions to her guests. I love losing myself in the story every week.

I have had Eps 2 of "What Happened to You?"on repeat. It's part of a series of three, but it's the "working" part. I like Nora's calm voice. She speaks in complete sentences, without the Main Character affectations that make listening difficult. The music used is nice for repeat listeners and the post-production is top-quality editing that's focused on storytelling. I hope there's more content here in the same vein.

This podcast used to be amazing, so heartfelt and honest, but I can barely stomach the last few episodes. A drunk driver that had multiple near misses, second chances and wake up calls, yet goes on to kill several people who were helping a stranded motorist. Through the entire story he minimizes his behavior (“I wasn’t even technically drunk anymore when I hit those people!”) and responsibility. This guy gets to take up an hour whining about how things have been tough for him? Turned my stomach. How about a platform for the victims’ families? This episode was in such poor taste I had to unsubscribe.

I feel like there’s a lot of grasping at straws looking for a real story lately. This Christmas episode was definitely a non- story. I’ve been less interested in listening to this podcast in the last year or so.

I’d like to start off by saying that I listen to this show often and with earnest. I’ve had a terrible past few years personally and professionally, and after discovering this podcast it became a true comfort for me that things are “not all right”. I am currently going through a divorce. It’s a mixture of grief, anger, our worst selves, a feeling of personal failure, and pain. So it was really disheartening to listen to the divorce mail bag, hoping to be comforted and empathized with, only to discover that it was 2 hours of Nora and two married people rambling about things that they haven’t experienced and know nothing about. The raucous laughter and judgment of people’s stories and letters was so off-color, I listened enough to realize that this was only making me feel alone and judged. Horrible.

I have listened to TTFA since November 2019 when I tragically lost my sister due to a drug overdose. Episode 12 about Harris Wittles struck me and help me grapple with my grief. Another “favorite” episode of mine is “I See Big Things For you.” Each week, Nora and her guests break me down with moving stories of the not-so-good things in life but by the end of the episode my faith in humanity is restored. We are all human and trying our best. It more than okay to not be okay is what I am left with.

Okay lets start w Nora’s voice. I find it so soothing. She can talk about anything, even not so fun stuff and I still find her soothing. Enjoying the subject matter. She really makes me think. And her wit, she makes me giggle with some of her comments. I’ve never purchased a podcast but this one was a no brainer. I love the special subscriber podcast. Sooooo worth it. Keep em coming Nora and team.

TTFA has been a favorite of mine for years. She has such a gift and I love listening to her cry, laugh, and talk through hard things with her guests. In the past year or so I’ve noticed a lot less Nora on the episodes. I’m not even sure if she does interviews anymore or if she’s just narrating and producing. I still listen. The episodes are fine- good even! But not as great as listening to Nora’s older interviews where there was so much depth, empathy, and love.

I was a dedicated listener to TTFA for a very long time until the recent change where a majority of the content now belongs solely to subscribers. This makes me sad because this podcast was a bright light in my life that I lost. I do not have the financial means to pour into or contribute monthly to a podcast so if you’re out there like me and feel like you’ve lost out on some phenomenal content because you couldn’t monetarily sacrifice, I feel you!

Okay, it’s not that important, but hopefully, you’re still reading. Nora is the shizz and there’s your clue on what generational demographic I fall into. BRAVA!!! Thank you for digging into a topic that happens to so many & affects everyone in it’s periphery , but is rarely discussed…I put divorce right up there with miscarriages & menopause (shhh!). I have such sincere appreciation for these eps and encourage you & your team to create more like it. THANK YOU!

Eat, Pray, Leave. So well told. Such great advice. Thanks for sharing. Don’t fall asleep at the wheel

I’m not even sure how I found TTFA… I may have heard about it on another podcast or heard an interview… and I was hooked. I became a widow at 45 with 2 young children, my husband was diagnosed with a glioblastoma- always diagnosed as terminal. Joe died when he was 45 and my son was 6 and my daughter was 14, 18 months after diagnosis. I just took on survival mode thinking the smarter parent was gone and as an artist - really nervous that I was left to raise my children alone without much family. The story has a happy ending! I promise… and I feel like Nora and guests understand grief, and being a woman and so many versions of myself. Whether it’s a death, a life, a divorce, a scary unknown future, a name change or the tiny nuances of every life… I always comeback to TTFA and think… they get it… all of it … and thank you for this!

The August podcast on the Special Ed teacher….maybe not to the extent that she struggled but every teacher is saddled with very similar issues. I was a 3rd gr reg ed teacher with an autistic student, a disabled hemophiliac and additional children who were below grade level same classroom. Little to no support. That’s the norm.

I knew ex & I were co-dependent, but hearing Anna Morris’ story really had me recognizing my behaviors in a 25+ year relationship. (that HE abruptly ended due to the old as time reason, love of a coworker 😉)Your podcast is truly amazing. Your calm & evocative voice is a pleasure to listen to. Thank you for this podcast.

Your podcast always makes me feel like things not going ok is ok. Thank you for all the different topics and stories.

I have a child in middle school and she’s in special education classes. I can see how things can get overwhelming for an educator and the student, with all the testing requirements and regulations enforced by the State. Teachers are definitely underpaid and under appreciated by our lawmakers. And thank you for explaining the importance of an IEP, this alone will help me prepare on how to accommodate my daughter with her studies at home. So thank you again and thank you, to all the educators for all the hard work and time they spend with each student.

Please tell me Marcel will not be doing the show. I’m sure he’s a wonderful guy and a great senior producer, but this latest episode was like listening to paint dry. After Marcel’s 20th mm hmm, yah, yah, yah …. I just could not! I’m not even sure what the point of this episode was? How a fire station works? Everything wrong with the emergency system in America? The trouble with our health care system? What? Please bring back the interesting, tug on my heart strings episodes with NORA. NORA! NORA! NORA!

I’m just now hearing this episode, and I can confirm there is a lot of grief associated with being put in the Gifted & Talented crew. I learned so much in our program. About art and music and kindness. But Grief because I have pretty severe ADHD. I couldn’t finish college. Couldn’t finish so many things, despite being expected to succeed at any cost. Now, I am 42, medicated & therapized, and I’m FINALLY figuring out how to manage all of this. Thank you for doing this episode. And all the other episodes.

Thank you for bringing so much good and making us think, understand. And, still would love Drew Dotson, writer, experienced so much in her young life, lives with CF, loss of her young husband, knowledge beyond her years, would be a wonderful guest. Thank you.

I’ve been on the TTFA train for years and I am perennially impressed. The single best snow for making heavy topics feel lighter through great storytelling and gentle delivery. A real winner!

Miss the old show. Feel as though the pod has become scattered and unfocused and unreliable. Hope we can get back to a place of consistency.