Episodes
287
Sept. 30, 2026
Grief: The Year I Edited My Best Friend Back to Life
A filmmaker loses his best friend in a plane crash weeks after they finish shooting, and spends a year in the edit learning how to grieve.
Guest: Jan Becker
286
Sept. 27, 2026
Not That Weird: When the Thing You Hid Becomes the Thing You Give
Kate Saint Clair spent decades fighting her intuition before accepting her gift as a psychic medium. This episode explores shame, sensitivity, and finding your voice.
Guest: Kate Saint Clair
285
Sept. 23, 2026
Grief: The Last Kiss on an Ordinary Tuesday
Ryan finally felt settled at 24, until a phone call at lunch changed everything. A story of sudden loss, addiction, and the long road back.
Guest: Ryan Roberts
284
Sept. 20, 2026
Belonging: Finding Family Among Strangers
Robin lost her mom at eight and entered foster care at eleven. A story of abandonment, resilience, and building a life overflowing with love.
Guest: Robin Rosenbluth
283
Sept. 16, 2026
Buried Memory: The Session That Changed Everything
Two therapists share how a ketamine session surfaced buried trauma and taught them love and safety cannot be forced, only created.
Guest: Tarah and EJ Kerwin
282
Sept. 13, 2026
Showing Up: The Day I Stopped Trying to Fix It
Brad Wolfe grew up terrified of death. When someone he loved got sick, he showed up with his guitar. A story about grief, presence, and learning to stay.
Guest: Brad Wolfe
281
Sept. 9, 2026
Identity: The Injury That Cracked Tyler Bramlett Wide Open
Tyler Bramlett spent years chasing success, the body, the car, the company. One moment on a gymnastics floor changed everything. A conversation about ego, shame, and real peace.
Guest: Tyler Bramlett
280
Sept. 6, 2026
What He Heard: Six Words That Moved Him Across the World
Joomin Hwang moved to the US at 30 without speaking English. A professor's six words sent him to Broadway. This is how he learned to dream as a verb.
Guest: Joomin Hwang
279
Sept. 2, 2026
Midlife: The Night He Asked If He Would Fold
Matt Ross built School of Rock into a global brand, then lost it all at 50. Hear how he chose growth over folding and rebuilt his life from the basement up.
Guest: Matt Ross
278
Aug. 30, 2026
Blissful Ignorance: The Character Who Saved His Life
Dave Raymond built a life around joy and performance, and when grief arrived all at once, the character he'd spent sixteen years playing became the thing that quietly saved him.
Guest: Dave Raymond
277
Aug. 26, 2026
Cancer: The Diagnosis That Stopped the Reinventing
A woman who spent almost fifty years reinventing herself finds, through cancer and the writing it unlocked, that she was one whole person all along.
Guest: Taira Soo
276
Aug. 23, 2026
Devotion: Writing Someone Else's Story to Find Your Own
Kate Clinch walked into a chapel as a non-believer and left with a novel, a calling, and a new understanding of what it means to survive. A conversation about faith, cancer, and the stories we don't know are ours.
275
Aug. 19, 2026
147 Days: Raising and Losing My Sister
A woman who became a parent at twenty two learns that loving someone completely, and losing them, means grieving out loud and finding your center again.
Guest: Andrea Wilson Woods
274
Aug. 16, 2026
Rock Bottom: Where the Most Fulfilling Life Began
After an accident ended his surgical career, a doctor faced opioid addiction, brutal withdrawal, and a lost sense of self. How he found purpose again.
Guest: Robert R. Beltran
273
Aug. 12, 2026
Starting Over: You Can Lose Everything and Still Be Okay
Lora Cheadle discovered a fifteen-year betrayal and lost the identity she built. Hear how she found herself again, one honest step at a time.
Guest: Lora Cheadle
272
Aug. 9, 2026
Anger: The Drink I Never Stopped Drinking
Couples therapist Zach Brittle on quitting alcohol, confronting the anger underneath it, and rebuilding his family one honest moment at a time.
Guest: Zach Brittle
271
Aug. 5, 2026
Surrender: The Wave That Changed Everything
A near fatal surfing accident broke Patrick Yalon's neck and changed how he sees every single day. A conversation on presence, gratitude, and showing up.
Guest: Patrick Yalon
270
Aug. 2, 2026
Reclamation: Coming Back To The Girl Who Got Shut Down
A retired engineer reclaims her voice, her breath, and her story decades after childhood shame, and finds healing at her mother's deathbed.
Guest: Lena Fein
269
July 29, 2026
Choosing the Harder Door: From Childhood Shame to Federal Prison
Ranae Van Roekel kept a childhood secret for decades until it led her into fraud, prison, and finally, the healing she never expected.
Guest: Ranae Van Roekel
268
July 26, 2026
Comfort: When Cozy Becomes a Cage
Scott Stirrett spent a decade getting comfortable. Then COVID showed him how small his life had gotten. A conversation about rebuilding comfort with uncertainty, on purpose.
Guest: Scott Stirrett
267
July 22, 2026
Fatherhood: The Fifteen Minutes That Changed Everything
Drew Norton found his infant son not breathing and his marriage on the line. A story about drifting, fear, faith, and showing up.
Guest: Drew Norton
266
July 19, 2026
Illness: When the Hard Thing Sets You Free
Actor Carly Otte opens up about facing cancer twice, losing her sense of self at thirty, and finding a gentler definition of success.
Guest: Carly Otte
265
July 15, 2026
Identity: More Than the Thing You're Known For
A world class cellist felt relief, not grief, the night her career quietly ended. Kate Kayaian on identity, permission, and starting over at midlife.
Guest: Kate Kayaian
264
July 12, 2026
Self-Worth: The Life She Fought For
Joy Kong left China at 20, survived a visa rejection and an isolating marriage, and built a life in medicine and stem cell research. A story about freedom, identity, and starting over.
Guest: Dr. Joy Kong