Meet The Women Behind The Voices On Cook Children's Raising Joy Podcast

Arlington TX

16 May, 2022

6:06 PM

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By Alexis Allison, Fort Worth Report May 16, 2022 The hour before Wini King takes her seat behind a tall, black microphone at a recording studio on Shamrock Avenue, she pauses. Checks her pulse. Breathes. She considers the conversation before her — more often than not, a tough one. She visualizes the studio, the guest, sometimes a medical expert or advocate or, lately, a parent whose child died by suicide. King's meditation hour prepares her for what is to come: The recording of another episode for the podcast Raising Joy, the brainchild of the public relations team at Cook Children's Health Care System. The mental health podcast, which aired its first episode on Feb. 24, doesn't recoil from difficult topics: In the first five episodes alone, King and her co-host, Dr. Kristen Pyrc, discussed divorce, abuse and losing a child to fentanyl. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.