The brutally honest, brutally funny show for women holding it all together with a hair tie and spite. Divorce, dating, daddy issues, and the truth nobody says out loud. First episodes drop Monday, June 15th.

Music: "Do It Anyway" by Scarlett Solo, used under license.

Divorce, dating, daddy issues, and the truth nobody says out loud — welcome to Daddy Tissues. Gina Sullivan introduces herself: 40, divorced, three kids, zero filter, and done pretending she's fine. Why your breakdown might be the beginning of everything, and why when one woman tells the truth, another woman gets free. Grab your coffee, your tequila, your Ativan — and grab your daddy tissues, girls.

This podcast reflects personal experiences and opinions and is not therapy or professional advice.

Music: "Do It Anyway" by Scarlett Solo, used under license.

Daddy issues aren't a punchline — they're the map. Gina digs into why smart, self-aware women keep choosing the same wound in different men, what your childhood actually wired into you about love, and why awareness isn't the same as healing. The patterns start way before the relationship you're crying over now.

This podcast reflects personal experiences and opinions and is not therapy or professional advice.

Music: "Do It Anyway" by Scarlett Solo, used under license.

When the chaos isn't loud: the nice guy, the covert narcissist, and how toxic relationships heat up one degree at a time. Gina on gaslighting, being made to feel crazy, quiet control, and the real questions that tell you whether you're actually safe — or just less obviously in danger than last time.

This podcast reflects personal experiences and opinions and is not therapy or professional advice.

Music: "Do It Anyway" by Scarlett Solo, used under license.

You did the work. You read the books, went to therapy, drank the Kool-Aid, hauled around the giant embarrassing water bottle. And then he walks in with the right eyes and the right chaos, and your whole nervous system lights up like a slot machine. So what is that feeling — chemistry, or your childhood trauma getting pushed through your veins by the little mad scientist Gina lovingly calls Mr. Trauma?

This week on Daddy Tissues, Gina gets honest about the most inconvenient truth in dating after divorce: danger feels incredible, butterflies might be a warning sign, and the high we chase is sometimes just our nervous system getting a hit after years of being starved. But this isn't a lecture about settling for the beige-wall guy. It's about the real question — can love be electric and safe? Can you have the fire without abandoning yourself? Grab your tissues and your popcorn. This one hits a nerve.

There's nothing like a fresh bottle of nail polish — smooth, clean, untouched, before anyone's contaminated it. But leave it in a drawer long enough and it goes thick, crusty, expired. Most people toss it. Gina the fixer? She pours in a little acetone and shakes it back to life. Sound familiar?

This week, Gina turns a bottle of polish into the most accurate metaphor for fear, hoarding, and that man you keep trying to revive that you'll never hear from. Surviving childhood hoarding ("Barb, pull the car around") to the real reason we hold onto old jeans, old beliefs, and old relationships way past their expiration date — this one's about the fears we were never actually born with. Turns out we come into this world with only two, and moms conquer both of them before breakfast. Everything else? We learned it. And anything you learned, you can unlearn. Grab your tissues, girls. It's time to stop pouring acetone into assholes and start choosing you.

In this episode:

• The nail-polish theory of why you can't let anything go
• Hoarding as a generational hand-me-down nobody asked for
• Why "loyalty" and "not giving up" are often just fear in a costume
• The only two fears humans are born with — and why moms crush both daily
• How we recreate our parents' relationships without realizing it
• Staying for the kids vs. leaving for the kids
• Why it's never too late to cleanse the bottle and start over

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Disclaimer: This podcast is for entertainment and personal storytelling purposes only. It is not therapy, legal advice, medical advice, or a replacement for professional support. If you are in an unsafe relationship or crisis situation, please reach out to a qualified professional or local support service.