For The Hayters: The Stories We Survive

TW: birth trauma, medical procedures performed without consent, infant medical emergency, NICU.
At 21, Angelina walked into her first birth expecting it to look like the movies. What she got was a day and a half of labor, decisions made about her body without her, and a newborn daughter rushed to a hospital 45 minutes away. This is the story of what nobody told her, and how she made sure it never happened to her again.
Interview, narration, and editing by Becky Hayter, with post-production, scripting, and sound design by Emily Nadal.
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TW: PTSD, suicidal ideation, self-harm, alcohol use, and war.
Tim was told he was stupid before he was old enough to argue, and spent the next thirty years proving he could survive anything: underground cage fights, Special Forces selection, Afghanistan. Then he came home, and the hardest fight of his life started at 2 AM with nobody shooting at all.
Interview, narration, and editing by Becky Hayter, with post-production, scripting, and sound design by Emily Nadal.
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We got Alex and me in the same room for once, in New Jersey for Bex's birthday, and instead of yip-yapping about numbers and the hard stuff, we decided to play a game. Would You Rather, money edition. I thought we'd disagree on everything. Turns out our answers surprised even us.
The catch with Would You Rather is that it feels like there's always an obvious answer, until you actually have to pick. And Alex's analytical brain wanted to ask ten clarifying questions per round, which, honestly, fair.
The Solution:
Money vs. meaning. $300K at a job you don't love or $90K doing work you adore? We get into why your job doesn't have to fulfill your soul, and why chasing that nearly wrecked me.
The dream house myth. Both of us would have said dream house five years ago. After actually living in one, we both went a different way. Turns out house poor is a real thing.
Time vs. money. Fridays off forever or a 20% raise? This is where the sisters split, and it comes down to how close each of us is to financial freedom.
Retirement, memories, and the college question. Retire at 50 or work until 70 at a job you love? Fund your kid's college or your own retirement? We land somewhere that might surprise you.
This one is less a lesson and more a window into how two people with very different money brains actually make decisions. Play along at home.
This week's homework: Pick a few of these questions and ask your partner, a friend, or a family member. Then really dig into how they got to their answer. Money isn't just numbers, it's priorities and the kind of life you want to support. Let us know where you landed, and whether you fully disagreed with us.
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TW: pregnancy loss, medical trauma, premature birth, surrogacy complications.
Sara drove six and a half hours to tell me what surrogacy actually took from her, and it was nothing I expected. This is a conversation about wanting something so badly you'll carry it for someone else, and what happens when your body makes a decision your heart didn't agree to.
Interview, narration, and editing by Becky Hayter, with post-production, scripting, and sound design by Emily Nadal.
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TW: domestic violence, suicidal ideation, child neglect, miscarriage, addiction.
In Part 2, Kail tells me about the dad she built into a knight in her head, the night in 2019 she wasn't sure she'd take another breath, and the question she still can't put down: am I her?
Interview, narration, and editing by Becky Hayter, with post-production, scripting, and sound design by Emily Nadal.

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