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Raising Barbara Jean and Wanda

Kila Carr, Ashley Lamar

Booking Overview

This is a personality-led comedy and personal-story podcast focused on unconventional motherhood, family, adoption, addiction, and resilience, with mostly host-driven episodes and selective external expert interviews. Agencies could credibly pitch nonprofit leaders, addiction and family-service professionals, adoption and foster-care advocates, and experts with compelling lived experience; booking difficulty is likely low.

Metrics

Episodes: 75

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 2.3k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

barbarajeanandwanda@gmail.com

trent@spreadthepositive.net

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Host

Kila Carr - TikTok personality and viral storyteller known for the stories “My Lost and Found Sisters” and “Trailer Park Chronicles.”

Ashley Lamar - TikTok personality and viral storyteller known for the stories “My Lost and Found Sisters” and “Trailer Park Chronicles.”

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Subject-matter expertise or professional leadership in addiction recovery, child and family services, adoption, foster care, or challenging parenting circumstances; compelling lived experience is also relevant.
Required Achievements:  
Leadership in a national nonprofit, Substantial professional experience in child and family support, Relevant lived experience connected to addiction and family resilience

Recent Guest Discussions

Stacee Reed - How Parental Addiction Affects Children, Breaking Cycles Of Addiction, The Seven Cs, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Family Roles, Person-first Language, And Support For Children And Families.

Recent Topics

Motherhood, Adoption, Addiction, Parenting, Genealogy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Raising Barbara Jean and Wanda
:

The Court System Is A Joke: A True Crime Rant

August 13, 2026

Holly Bobo's retrial had us flip on Zach Adams, plus ADHD time, late-mom chaos, and the night Hagan got stabbed. We open on why last week never got published (turns out we shared too much and it was nobody's business), then get into the everyday hard stuff: CC putting her hands on her back her first day of big-school kindergarten, a first grader looking up like "all right, tell me" while he sounds out letters, firing a client over Ashley being late and her coming right back because she likes ...

"Being a Child of an Addict Is Your Superpower" — Breaking the Cycle with Stacee Reed (NACoA)

July 23, 2026

Ashley is flying solo this week (Kila's on vacation, back next week!) and this one hits close to home. She sits down with Stacee Reed, Director of Innovation at the National Association for Children of Addiction (NACoA), for an honest, funny, and deeply personal conversation about what addiction does to the kids in the room — and how we break the cycle for good. As a child of an addict herself — dad sober 31 years and running a recovery house, a brother still in active addiction, and two babi...

ChatGPT Read Us Like a Book | Willie's, Big Backs & Fat Little Legs

July 09, 2026

We asked ChatGPT to tell us three things about ourselves we don't know — and it read us so hard we nearly cried on mic. 🤖 Kila & Ashley take the viral "ask your AI what it really thinks of you" trend live, mid-episode, and it comes back with answers about resilience, humor, and turning pain into purpose that neither of us saw coming. (Then Chatty short-circuits because there's no Wi-Fi in the studio.) Before the AI goes off the rails: Fourth of July on the median 🎆, a week at Tybee Island and...

Publicly listed emails

barbarajeanandwanda@gmail.com

trent@spreadthepositive.net

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