For The Hayters: The Stories We Survive is a space where vulnerability is met with strength, and real stories remind us we’re never alone. Hosted by a community of storytellers and listeners alike, this podcast dives into the personal journeys - both beautiful and brutal - that shape who we are. From life-changing challenges to moments of resilience, our guests open up about the experiences that have defined them, in hopes of connecting, healing, and inspiring others. Whether you’re here to feel seen, heard, or understood, this is your reminder: your story matters.beckyhayter.com
Latest episodes
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35 min
Wallet Therapy: Is the Market Going to Crash? Wrong Question.
Every time I open my phone, someone is yelling that the market is about to crash. And honestly? I get anxious when money just sits there. Alex is the total opposite. She’s over her…
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1 h 04
Rare Disease, Vision Loss & Raising a Daughter With the Same Diagnosis
Trigger warnings: abortion, miscarriage, NICU and infant medical emergency, pediatric surgery, chronic pain, vision loss, panic attacks and alcohol use, parental infidelity and ang…
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56 min
Bows, Hairspray, and Heroin: How a Drunk Driver Took Rachel’s Before
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses traumatic brain injury, drunk driving, substance use and addiction (including heroin), overdose, sexual assault, not caring whether you live…
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32 min
Wallet Therapy: My Parents Didn't Save Enough. Now What?
Confession: I took out a personal loan this month. After working SO hard to get where I am, I had to go back ten steps because our old house has not sold and the credit card intere…
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60 min
A Marine, Twin Mom, and Trafficking Fighter: Raids, Bottles, and a Top Secret Clearance
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses human trafficking, sexual violence, child sexual abuse and exploitation, organ harvesting, ritual violence against children, and domestic ab…
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1 h 14
Cancer, Chronic Illness & Coming Out Later in Life
Trigger warnings: cancer diagnosis and chemotherapy, hysterectomy and invasive medical procedures, brief discussion of intimacy after surgery, chronic illness and chronic pain, med…
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27 min
Wallet Therapy: Lease vs. Buy: Would You Still Want This Car If No One Saw It?
Confession: I have never once walked into a car purchase asking "can I afford this car?" I asked "can I afford this payment?" and called it a day. Turns out those are two very diff…
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1 h 14
The Keeper of Secrets: A Marriage Built and Nearly Lost on Hidden Bills
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses financial trauma, debt, foreclosure and eviction, childhood dysfunction, the death of a family member, substance use, and a dark period of a…
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57 min
A Parent Worth Mourning: Justine on Abuse, Surrogacy Loss, and Choosing Herself
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, alcoholism, a disclosure that wasn't believed, pregnancy loss, surrogacy, and estrangement from a pa…
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32 min
Wallet Therapy: Credit Cards - Are You Using Them, or Are They Using You?
Credit cards are the topic where everyone has an extreme opinion. Either they're a free travel hack or they're evil and you should cut them all up. Alex's take is neither. A credit…
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53 min
A Mother, Two Suicide Attempts, and the Marriage That Came After | The Beautiful Disaster
TW: This episode discusses suicide attempts and methods, self-harm, domestic violence and strangulation, psychiatric hospitalization, postpartum depression, and the death of a chil…
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54 min
Three Pieces of Salt: A Grandmother’s Fight for Skylar and Gage
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses child death, fentanyl poisoning, overdose, CPR, and suicide in detail. Listener discretion is advised.On a snow day in January of 2024, Kath…
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31 min
Wallet Therapy: The Bank Said Yes. Should You?
I had to pull cash out of my savings this week to pay for a patio, because apparently some people still only take cash in the year of our lord. So I am feeling some feelings about…
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48 min
32-Year-Old Mom Faces Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
TW: cancer, medical trauma, death of a loved one, grief, body image. At 32, Jess found a lump adjusting a bra she'd bought herself for Christmas. What followed was a year of aggres…
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56 min
Hydrocephalus, Brain Surgery, and Building an Ordinary Life Anyway
Val was diagnosed with hydrocephalus before she was born, and the doctors gave her mom a number and a recommendation. She's 27 now, married, teaching special education, finishing h…
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18 min
Wallet Therapy: How Do I Prioritize My Money?
Today’s episode is a little different because Becky is away on her podcast tour, so Alex is flying solo and answering your money questions.From $18,000 in credit card debt and feel…
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1 h 10
Eleven Years Between a Prescription and a Backyard | Lauren's Story
TW: opioid addiction, drug poisoning and overdose, suicide loss, incarceration, newborn withdrawal, loss of custody.Lauren was 16 when a doctor handed her a prescription for straig…
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45 min
Three Losses, Endometriosis, and Choosing a Hysterectomy at 28
TW: pregnancy loss, infant loss, medical trauma and dismissal, hysterectomy, immigration enforcement and community fear.Yari became a mom at 19 and spent the next decade being told…
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31 min
Wallet Therapy: Investing Isn't an Exclusive Club
For the longest time I thought investing was a members only club and nobody sent me the invite. People would say things like index fund and expense ratio and diversification, and I…
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50 min
A Small-Town Social Worker, Court, Addiction at Home, and the Year Her Word Was Survive
TW: This episode discusses secondary trauma, child abuse and neglect, substance use and addiction, overdose loss, suicidal ideation, stalking, and a mention of gun violence.Morgan…