Connection over conflict: Navigating expectations with loved ones during the holiday season

Thinking Out Loud

Connection over conflict: Navigating expectations with loved ones during the holiday season

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Published on Dec 2, 2025, 9:17:17 PM
Total time: 00:13:37

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KBIA's Rachael Norden speaks with Dr. Ashlie Lester, Associate Teaching Professor at HDFS on the high expectations and pressure our culture places on the holidays, and ways we can avoid – or at the very least, minimize – discourse with loved ones over the season through communication and shared experiences.

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KBIA Hosts Darren Hellwege, T’Keyah Thomas, and Rachael Norden discuss business, technology, poetry, books, music, arts, culture, and more with notable individuals and organizations in Columbia and mid-Missouri.In the past, the show broadcast Maplewood Barn Radio Theatre, a radio drama put on by the Maplewood Barn community theater on Friday evenings. On Saturday it tackled the college sports scene.