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Last Day

Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Booking Overview

This is a weekly interview-led narrative show focused on addiction, loss, recovery, resilience, and life-changing experiences, typically featuring advocates, nonprofit leaders, journalists, and people with relevant lived experience. PR agencies could credibly pitch addiction and overdose-prevention experts, grief and mental-health advocates, nonprofit founders, recovery professionals, and authors with compelling personal or professional perspectives; booking difficulty is medium because guests need both subject-matter credibility and a strong transformative story.

Metrics

Episodes: 119

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 10.1k subscribers

Instagram: 83.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

hey@lemonadamedia.com

advertise@lemonadamedia.com

lizzie@lemonadamedia.com

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Host

Stephanie Wittels Wachs - Stephanie Wittels Wachs is the co-founder of Lemonada Media and an award-winning host exploring stories of survival, loss, resilience, and transformation.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Subject-matter expertise or meaningful lived experience related to addiction, overdose prevention, grief, recovery, mental health, loneliness, or community-based support. Nonprofit founders, advocates, journalists, authors, and professionals with a strong personal transformation story are a good fit.
Required Achievements:  
Founding or leading a nonprofit or public-health initiative, Developing prevention, recovery, or drug-education programs, Publishing or speaking publicly on grief, addiction, loneliness, or resilience, Combining professional expertise with a compelling lived-experience narrative

Recent Guest Discussions

Stephen Murray - Recovery, Substance Use Disorder, Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction, And Changing Perceptions Of Drug Users.

Marcia Lee Taylor - Evidence-based Drug Education, Youth Prevention, And Honest Conversations With Children And Caregivers About Drugs.

Ed Ternan - Fentanyl Risks, Counterfeit Pills, Drug Education, And Talking With Children And Parents About Substance Use.

Allison Gilbert - Loneliness, Social Connection, Belonging, And The Relationship Between Closeness And Addiction Prevention.

Recent Topics

Health, Addiction, Opioid Crisis, Overdose Prevention, Grief

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Last Day
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Destigmatizing Drug Use

September 16, 2026

Stephen Murray wants to change how we view drug users. After overcoming his own substance use disorder in his early 20s, he went on to save countless lives from overdose as a paramedic. He's now the founder and Executive Director of SafeSpot, the only government-funded overdose prevention hotline in the United States. In this episode, Stephen joins Stephanie to walk through the moments that transformed how he sees recovery and what it actually takes to save more lives. Order Steph’s book Las...

“I Have One Goal: Keep You Alive” (Steph guests on A Slight Change in Plans)

September 09, 2026

Stephanie Wittels Wachs and her younger brother Harris were best friends. So when he confided that he was struggling with opioid addiction, Steph believed they’d find a way through it together, like they always had. But Harris didn’t survive his addiction.  Steph immersed herself in research on addiction to better understand what her family had been through. This week, Steph joins Maya to share what she’s learned about the disease and how we can help save more lives.  Check out St...

When Life-Changing Experiences Bring People Together (Steph guests on Thanks for Asking)

September 04, 2026

Most friendships start because you have something in common: work, hobbies, fashion, books, sense of humor. But not all friendships are formed because of something wholesome in common. Sometimes, you share an experience so life-changing that you are drawn to each other. That is how, nine years ago, Nora and Steph Wittels Wachs became friends. Steph lost her brother, Harris, to an opioid overdose. Grievers can always find common ground: losing someone changes you. If you have lived this befor...

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