My name is Derrick Javan Hoard. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist and this podcast is about having difficult conversations on difficult topics. Sometimes, even the people themselves are considered by some to be "difficult". I want to help people learn how to understand another person. Even if that person has views and ideas that you don't agree with. So we will talk with "racists", "anti-vaxxers", and "conspiracy theorists" as well as "mothers", "fathers", "sons" and "daughters". They are the same people and we forget that. I hope that my conversations will help heal rifts in families, bridge gaps in communities, and ultimately repair relationships destroyed because we confuse the label with the person we are labeling. It is the conversations we have that get us into this mess and it is Conversational Medicine that will get us out. Laughter is always the best...