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Events, Podcasts & Other Musings

Here you will find the latest posts from Marlena Fiol’s YouTube channel, Becoming Who We Truly Are, including her thoughts on a wide range of topics, recordings of online events, and visual versions of her podcast. If you’d like to stay up to date with all of Marlena’s upcoming videos, please subscribe to Becoming Who We Truly Are by clicking the button below.

Nobody’s Listening

Marlena Fiol discusses the importance of engaging with challenging opinions that are different than your own.

Who Are You, Really?
w/ Apricot Irving

Marlena Fiol welcomes author Apricot Irving, who shares her experiences growing up as a missionary kid in Haiti and how representation on social media can skew our views of other cultures.

Family Estrangement
w/ Dr. Joshua Coleman

Marlena Fiol welcomes Dr. Joshua Coleman, a psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco area, with particular expertise in family dynamics, including estrangement.

The Blessing and Curse of a Focused Life

Marlena Fiol discusses the importance of focus in one’s life and how too much focus can be both a gift and a curse.

Rape & Forgiveness
w/ Thordis Elva

Marlena Fiol welcomes Thordis Elva, an Icelandic author, speaker, playwright, and activist for gender equality. Thordis collaborated on and published a book with her perpetrator, Tom Stranger, making her the first rape survivor in the world to publicly do this.