{"podcast":{"title":"The Back Room with Andy Ostroy","slug":"the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395","podcast_index_feed_id":5638395,"rss_url":"https://media.zencast.fm/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy/rss","website_url":"https://the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy.podcast.radiofreerhinecliff.org","image_url":"https://podcdn.zencast.fm/download/Podcast%2Fartworks%2F10316%2Flarge%2Fd96691adc1075ab252791855d22902fe070a56106b6a1a6cb38d64aad906f0a8%2F72875a20c9335ce6.jpg","author":"Radio Free Rhinecliff and Andy Ostroy","episode_count":525,"summary":"The Back Room with Andy Ostroy presents a humorous, honest take on politics and pop culture featuring notable guest interviews, a shit-ton of righteous indignation, and rip-roaring repartee with co-producers Matty Rosenberg and Jen Hammoud. We're havin' a ball, and so will you! Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Music by Andrew Hollander Design by Cricket Lengyel","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T12:17:09.795662+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395"},"episode":{"title":"Marisa Renee Lee on Life, Love, Loss, Grief, Hope, Healing and her New Book Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty","slug":"marisa-renee-lee-on-life-love-loss-grief-hope-healing-and-her-new-book-waiting-for-dawn-living-with-uncertainty","published_at":"2026-06-23T22:11:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395/marisa-renee-lee-on-life-love-loss-grief-hope-healing-and-her-new-book-waiting-for-dawn-living-with-uncertainty","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395","url":"https://the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy.podcast.radiofreerhinecliff.org/episodes/marisa-renee-lee-on-life-love-loss-grief-hope-healing-and-her-new-book-waiting-for-dawn-living-with-uncertainty","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.zencast.fm/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy/940530e1-529e-4a23-ac61-c71b2a4307a4.mp3?source=feed","summary":"Marisa Renee Lee is the award-winning and bestselling author of Grief is Love. For her work on grief and healing, she has been featured on Good Morning America and NPR, in Vogue and The Atlantic, among other outlets. Her new book Waiting for Dawn: Living with Uncertainty reflects on her experiences with chronic illness and grief, offering solace to folks living with all kinds of uncertainty. A longtime rabble-rouser of social healing and equity, Lee previously served as a deputy director in the Obama White House and is now CEO of Beacon Advisors, a social-impact consulting firm. Illness and death is all around us. Grief is universal. How can we best navigate it all? And can we ever truly find 'closure'? Marisa and I discuss life, love, loss, grief, hope, and healing...the subjects of her two terrific books. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel","meta_description":"Marisa Renee Lee is the award-winning and bestselling author of Grief is Love. For her work on grief and healing, she has been featured on Good Morning Am…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2679,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395/episodes/marisa-renee-lee-on-life-love-loss-grief-hope-healing-and-her-new-book-waiting-for-dawn-living-with-uncertainty/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-back-room-with-andy-ostroy-5638395/marisa-renee-lee-on-life-love-loss-grief-hope-healing-and-her-new-book-waiting-for-dawn-living-with-uncertainty.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}