2020
Entrant Company
Ronit Plank/And Then Everything Changed podcast
Category
Audio & Podcasts / Audio & Podcasts / Other
Client's Name
Self
Country / Region
United States
Experience Level
Lecturer
Mikel Jollett, frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event and author of the new memoir, Hollywood Park, spent his early years with his brother in an orphanage at the Synanon cult not knowing he had a mother and father of his own.
Then, one day his birth mother returned to take them away from Synanon and give them a home. Unfortunately, this new arrangement created a further level of harm for the brothers and they suffered emotional abuse and deprivation at her hands. Over the next few years they would endure poverty, isolation, and constant uncertainty about their future and safety. The only bright spot was their father, a recovering heroin addict who became part of their life when he got out of prison and whose new wife Bonnie became the mother they had always needed.
In this episode, Mikel joins Ronit to talk about early trauma and it’s lasting legacy, the search for family, and who we invent to survive; how for years though he tried to undo the abuse and absence of his childhood he wasn’t able to make lasting changes until he faced his fears head-on. Hollywood Park is his memoir and also The Airborne Toxic Event’s new album, the story of how Mikel not only survived but became the person he was meant to be.
Credits
Entrant Company
Tortuga Digital Marketing & Design
Category
Website / Tourism
Country / Region
United States
Entrant Company
Attention Span Media
Category
Content Marketing & Writing / Feature Article
Country / Region
United States
Entrant Company
Quill & Ink
Category
Content Marketing & Writing / Content Marketing / Other
Country / Region
United States
Entrant Company
ACAMS
Category
Design & Print / Magazine Cover
Country / Region
United States