Denise Paley returns to Tony & Sarah Unscripted for a deeply personal conversation about her son, his mental health struggles, and the journey their family has traveled since his incarceration.

In Part One, Denise shares more about her son and the experiences that shaped her understanding of mental health, incarceration, and the gaps that exist for people who need support while involved in the criminal justice system.

Through everything her family has endured, Denise has turned her experience into advocacy, working to bring greater awareness, compassion, and access to social services for incarcerated people, particularly those experiencing mental health challenges.

This is a conversation about a mother’s strength, the complexity of loving and supporting a child through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, and the determination to use lived experience to help create change.

Part Two of our conversation with Denise will continue in an upcoming episode.

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KC Councilor is a professor, cartoonist, author, husband, dad, and a trans man.

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Carrie Dennehy is genderqueer, nonbinary, bisexual, a special education teacher, and uses any pronouns.

But what does “any pronouns” actually mean? Does it truly not matter which pronoun someone uses? In this episode, we ask Carrie those questions and talk openly about why different pronouns feel right at different times and what that means to them.

We also talk about authenticity and how Carrie shows up fully as themselves, including in the classroom, giving their students an example of what it looks like to express yourself and be who you are.

It’s an open, honest conversation about pronouns, identity, authenticity, and the power of simply showing up as who you are.

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