Chasing Glass
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The Weight of Pride: Chronic Illness, Coming Out, and Choosing to Show Up Anyway┃Steph Cave
The Cost of Capturing Everyone Else's Best Days | Sharvil Kulkarni: Photographer and Entrepreneur
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On this episode of Chasing Glass, I sit down with Steph Cave, board president of Athens Pride and Queer Collective, for one of the most honest conversations we've had on the show. Steph opens up about living with lupus, Hashimoto's, and complex PTSD, what it actually took to come out in a rural town fifteen years ago, and their time as a protest medic during the BLM protests. We talk about grief, chronic illness, mental health, and what it really costs to build the queer community you needed but never had. This is a conversation about identity, resilience, and choosing to show up for people even when it costs you.
Sharvil Kulkarni built a full photography business in one year, all while being a full time college student. On the outside it looks like a highlight reel. On the inside, it is productivity guilt, imposter syndrome, and a moment on a 3 AM flight that cracked everything open. In this episode of Chasing Glass, we talk about what it actually costs to always be the one behind the camera, why comparison culture hits different when your job is curating everyone else's image, and the friendship lesson that changed how he sees loneliness. This is a conversation about burnout, boundaries, and figuring out who you are when nobody is watching.
Some losses are publicly mourned. Others get pushed into silence. Why? This week I'm joined by Melyssa Munn, a UGA neuroscience and women's and gender studies researcher who lost both her parents at 15. Now, she studies the brain science of trauma and writes feminist theory on how women are valued, then dismissed. We get into the psychology of grief, why some losses are quietly erased, what disenfranchised grief actually is, and why so many women learn shame before they learn confidence. If you've ever been told to stay strong or just move on, listen to this one all the way through.