Episodes

Susan shares the heart behind A Daughter's Inheritance, a podcast exploring the enduring legacies mothers leave behind through intimate conversations with daughters. Discover how memory, values, and wisdom continue to shape who we become, honoring not what was lost, but what remains.

In this inaugural episode, Susan begins with her own story. Joined by her cousin (more like a sister) Linda Weir, Susan opens up about the woman who shaped both their lives. Before inviting others to share their intimate memories, Susan models the vulnerability she asks of her guests, exploring what her mother's legacy means and how those lessons continue to unfold. This honest, heartfelt conversation sets the foundation for the entire series.

The mother-daughter relationship is complicated enough on its own. Add siblings to the conversation, and things get really interesting.
In this episode, Susan sits down with three of four sisters to explore how one woman shaped each of them differently, and what that has meant for the relationships they have with each other. Shared memories, different experiences, and the mother who lives in all of them.

Losing a mother is difficult at any age but losing her as a toddler creates a longing that can shape an entire life.
In this episode, Nina opens up about what it means to grow up without her mother, who stepped in to nurture her, how she found connection across the absence, and why the bond between a daughter and the mother she barely knew can still feel remarkably, alive.

Rhonda DiBiase grew up a Mississippi Delta girl and was shaped by a mother who never claimed to have all the answers but somehow always knew just what to say. In this conversation, the author of Fear Finds Faith shares memories of a woman who was funny, faithful, a little bit mischievous, and almost always "thoughty." These stories of Rhonda's mother, Linda Baker, will make you laugh out loud and just might inspire you to drop a card in the mail to let someone know they're on your mind.

In this episode, Susan sits down with Diana Eubanks, DVM for a moving conversation about her mother, Diane, who once confessed that "apple pie and motherhood" might not be her thing. It was always a perfect relationship, but Diana and her mother grew closer over time.From a Girl Scout group that spanned a lifetime to a card never sent, this is a story about the strength we inherit from the most unexpected places.

She was impatient, restless, and by her own daughter's admission, a bit of a hot mess. But Joy Griner was also a pioneer, a woman who grew up in the hills of West Virginia in the 1930s and spent a lifetime pushing back against what the world told her she was supposed to be.In this episode, Susan sits down with Emily Noble, a Starkville educator, to explore the life of her mother Joy, a librarian and PhD, who found her truest self only after she stopped trying to be someone else.

Kate shares the story of her mother, a confident, intelligent, endlessly curious woman who built a career in economic development with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians before her diagnosis at 24 reshaped everything. Kate talks candidly about what it meant to grow up fast, to find independence forced on her early, and to spend countless hours in hospital rooms during her teenage years. She reflects on the friendships, faith, and community that carried her through.

Gail Miller talks about the community of women who helped raise her while her mother worked, and the quiet strength her mother carried, including the customers she would let slide on payment, no questions asked, until they could pay her back. We talk about growing up in the segregated South, the things that generation simply didn't discuss, and the powerful, unspoken ways love and lessons got passed down anyway.

Donna Clevinger shares memories of her mother, a spirited young woman who came of age in 1940s Virginia, met her husband-to-be at the YMCA, and was pulled out of pharmacy school the moment she got engaged. Two decades later, she went back to school for agriculture and landscape design.At the heart of the episode is the story of a flower show entry that "had no movement" and the quiet grace with which Donna's mother turned disappointment into fuel for a whole new chapter.

Donna Ladd was in the third grade when her mother sat her down and said the words she'd never forget: "I can't read or write. I'm gonna need you to help me do my business."In this episode, award-winning journalist and Mississippi Free Press co-founder Donna Ladd talks about her mother, Katie May Coates Ladd, a woman kept home from school to cook for field hands, and yet one of the sharpest, funniest people Donna has ever known. "I have deep respect for smart people stuck in uneducated bodies," Donna says. "My mother was an example of that."