The Dysfunction of Family (with Chrysta Bilton)
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Dear Media | Wishbone Production
4.5 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
This week, Erin and Sara sit down with Chrysta Bilton, author of "Normal Family." They discuss Chrysta's emotional roller coaster of a story, how we can connect over our family traumas, the link between secrets and shame, and more.
Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Otto. Welcome to Ellen Zell's put the cost. |
| 0:10.6 | Okay, so this week we sit down with Christa Bilton. |
| 0:14.4 | Okay, this woman is fascinating story. |
| 0:17.1 | Her family structure is almost crazier than ours. |
| 0:21.0 | I would say it's just a little bit. |
| 0:22.4 | Yeah, it's just a little bit crazier than ours. |
| 0:26.2 | She wrote a memoir called Normal Family. |
| 0:29.0 | On truth, love, and how I met my 35 siblings. |
| 0:34.0 | That is more than we have actually. |
| 0:35.4 | She shares her story of her obviously extremely |
| 0:38.3 | unconventional family, but the whole conversation |
| 0:40.5 | it's just a really good reminder that honestly, |
| 0:43.6 | no family is normal. |
| 0:44.6 | Not even the family that you think is normal is normal. |
| 0:49.3 | I don't think anyone ever thought |
| 0:50.9 | her family was normal though. |
| 0:52.0 | No, we all have stuff going on behind closed doors. |
| 0:54.2 | We talk a lot about shame, secrets. |
| 0:57.5 | We really think you're going to like this episode. |
| 0:59.5 | Not the, I mean, we don't know. |
| 1:00.5 | We went into it thinking, is this relatable to our entire audience? |
| 1:03.3 | And we came out of it going, there are takeaways |
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