Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant. Life's Milestones is taking a break for a few months, so your host decided to say goodbye for now with a tongue in cheek episode where he asks the show's questions to his Amazon Alexa!In this episode, an electronic devices attempts to answer some very human questions and the answers are definitely peculiar and funny in places. Host / Editor: Mark Adams'Guest': AlexaTwitter: @LifesMilestonesWe Made This on Twitter: @wmt_network Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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Milestone 26 - Matt Lubbers-Moore
Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant. Mark's guest on this episode is Matt Lubbers-Moore: writer and one of the owners/team at ReQueered Tales publishers. In this episode, Matt shares stories about his life's milestones including his love of libraries from a young age and how he loved creating his own library by buying as much as he could from library book sales, how he ended up being faceplanted into a cake on his wedding day, and how he's planning on donating his gay comic book collection to a museum so that his memory lives on after he dies. Host / Editor: Mark AdamsGuest: Matt Lubbers-MooreTwitter: @LifesMilestonesWe Made This on Twitter: @wmt_network Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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Milestone 25 - Nancy Shadlock
Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant. Mark's guest on this episode is Nancy Shadlock: Life Coach and podcast host of The Coming Out Chronicles. In this episode, Nancy shares stories about her life's milestones including a story about her childhood imaginary friend Uncle George, her decision to get pregnant at the same time as her partner from the same donor, why her father weed whacking an aisle for her wedding was so important, and how her grandfather's gallows humour helped her when he was dying. Host / Editor: Mark AdamsGuest: Nancy ShadlockTwitter: @LifesMilestonesWe Made This on Twitter: @wmt_network Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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Milestone 24 - Brad Shreve
Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant. Mark's guest on this episode is Brad Shreve: Queer Crime writer and host of the Queer Writers of Crime podcast. In this episode, Brad shares stories about his life's milestones including a childhood prank involving a mean teacher; chickens and a frozen puddle, how he has had 4 marriages to two different people, what it's like coming out as gay in your late 30s, and how he helped a friend with AIDS to a dignified death. Host / Editor: Mark AdamsGuest: Brad ShreveTwitter: @LifesMilestonesWe Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
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Milestone 23 - India Bastien
Welcome to Life's Milestones - the fortnightly podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationship and marriage, and death and funerals, hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant. Mark's guest on this episode is India Bastien: podcast host of Southern Queeries. In this episode, India shares stories about her life's milestones including what it was like growing up as the daughter of a midwife in Mexico, how Covid-19 restrictions and the potential redaction of her marriage rights as a same-sex couple ruined her wedding plans and what she and her wife are doing post-covid, and how she dealt with the death of a relative that had been cruel to her and her mother.Host / Editor: Mark AdamsGuest: India Bastien Twitter: @LifesMilestonesWe Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod Support the We Made This podcast network on Patreon: Patreon.com/wemadethis
A podcast about birth and naming ceremonies, relationships and marriage, death and funerals hosted by Mark Adams, a Humanist Celebrant. Every fortnight, Mark has a different guest to talk to them about their life's milestones. Part of the We Made This podcast network.