A Daughter's Inheritance
A podcast that explores the complex, sometimes beautiful, sometimes painful relationships of mothers and daughters. Each episode host, Susan Seal, sits down with a daughter(s) whose mother has passed, and they explore the story of her mother as well as the complexities of their relationship and what it means to carry forward the inheritance that was passed down.
The podcast launched with 3 episodes the week of Mother's Day 2026. New episodes drop on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month.
A Daughter's Inheritance
Latest Episodes
Two Cultures, Two Mothers, One Daughter
Season 2 of A Daughter's Inheritance begins on the other side of the world! Chieko Iwata, who lives in Tokyo, Japan was influenced by two mothers: her biological Japanese mother and her Norwegian host mother, whom she met as a 16-year-old excha...
Kick It Into High Gear
Jessica DuPont, interim Vice Provost of Oregon State University's Division of eCampus, joins Susan to talk about her mother, Laura Lynn Gloss DuPont, the oldest of six kids from a tight knit Polish Catholic family in Wisconsin, who spent a year...
Somewhere On a Beach
Jen Fowlkes joins Susan to talk about her mother, Martha Vandora McElhannon, a Birmingham, Alabama native, straight-A student, who married her high school sweetheart but became a single mother of two, remarried a race car driver, and found her ...
I Write Because She Couldn't
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 F...
Two to Tango: Lorene “Allie” Wright Clevinger
In this episode of A Daughter's Inheritance, host Susan Seal talks with Dr. Donna Clevinger, professor and senior faculty fellow in Mississippi State's Shackouls Honors College, about the mother who shaped her life on and off the stage...