leahmcleangettingbetter's podcast

Join a conversation with  my parents, Joe & Shelly McAleer and they share their take on how to get better with each passing day.  From stories of their youth, courtship and child rearing me and my siblings you'll glean some valuable insight into how to evolve personally, spiritually and professionally.  

Helen Smolinski was appointed by former San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to the Mayor’s Disability Council where she advocates on behalf of disabled children and their families. She served on a board for families at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and is active in disability issues statewide. Helen is a lawyer, and prior to having her children, she was the Managing Director of a national non-profit, civil rights organization that focused on issues of race, immigration, and poverty.  Before becoming a lawyer, Helen worked in media and is a published author,   including most recently in a book about gay marriage. She and her partner live with their two young children in San Francisco. 

Ariel Gold is a San Francisco artist whose work revolves around color  - how we associate, interact and interpret it. Her colors reflect the relationship between people and environment.   She believes that colors have a language of their own and encourages us to live vibrantly.  

Kristin is the owner of Kristin Jones Coaching, where she specialize in helping women address and manage issues with emotional eating and helps them to develop a healthy relationship with food that doesn’t involve counting calories, or ever dieting again. Kristin’s hope is to share her knowledge and first-hand experiences with women in order to empower them to truly embrace and love who they are and to learn what they need in order to live their best life ever. 

Blue Inquito is a mom of 8-year old twins, married 4 times to the same woman by Gavin Newsom, immigrated from the Philippines at 6 years old, and as a profession is a software sales rep in San Francisco.  One of her twins, Betta, is a severely disabled child meaning she was born blind, deaf and unable to move at all. Blue is addicted to self-help books, podcasts, Oprah and is well aware that every day is intentional.  Blue has been trying to meditate for more than 16 minutes since 2009 and will continue that quest in 2019.  

Jim Best, host of the Coming Cures Podcast, shares why focusing on and centralizing the future of medical technology is watershed in patient advocacy.  Coming Cures aims to aggregate information about the future of medical advances thereby creating optimism which is scientifically proven to assist treatment and care.  

Sarah Huck, Development Director of The Richmond Neighborhood Center in San Francisco,  shares how building connection and creating community is the most successful avenue for healing injustice and social fractures in our world.  

There are ways in which we get better by easily defined metrics. And there are ways in which we get better slowly, quietly and almost unknowingly. Each are critical to our development as humans and each have been pivotal in my own journey. Join me as I feature the folks who've helped this mama of four, lawyer-turned-entrepreuner and community advocate evolve over the years. From spiritual advisors to business innovators, from artists to activists, they've made me who I am today. I'm eager to share their stories with you because we get better, together.