Grief took more from Ryan than he realized. He talks about the memory gaps that swallowed whole stretches of his children's early years, and how he has learned to sit with the moments he simply cannot get back.
Ryan got honest about how close he came to dying. Down to 113 pounds with his liver failing, he was drinking himself toward a slow end. He talks about the choice to stop, and how that decision saved his life.
Robin witnessed a little girl sent back simply because of the color of her skin, and she has never forgotten it. A hard, honest look at what she saw inside the system as a kid. Out now. The Life Shift Podcast.
It started as a normal lunch break. Then Ryan got a call from his wife's coworker asking why she hadn't shown up for work. He walks through the panic of the next hour and the moment right before he understood what had happened.
February 2018, Ryan woke up in a jail cell at the lowest point of his life. He talks about the strange relief he felt sitting there, the difference between the lows that happen to us and the ones we cause, and why this was the night everything finally turned.
Robin describes the strange relief of foster care feeling safer than the home she came from. Sometimes leaving is the first moment a kid gets to breathe. She shares it here. The Life Shift Podcast.
Ryan hit his lowest point in a jail cell in early 2018. He talks about the desperate prayer he said there, the surrender in it, and how that moment became the start of the sobriety he still holds today.
For years Ryan's mind was a hard place to live. He talks about the slow shift from those darkest thoughts to actually being present, and how becoming a steadier father for his kids became the thing that pulled him forward.
Robin never had the parenting she needed, so she learned to give it to herself, and then to her own kids. We talk about what it means to re-parent yourself when no one modeled it for you. New episode out now. The Life Shift Podcast.
On an ordinary Tuesday, Ryan kissed his wife goodbye and went to work. By lunch she was gone, killed by the man who lived next door. Ryan walks through that morning and the moment his settled, quiet life came apart.
Maybe you know what it is to finally exhale. To reach a season where the noise quiets down, the plan starts to work, and for the first time you let yourself believe things might actually be okay. Ryan was 24 and living in Denver when he reached that place. He…
Ryan finally felt settled for the first time in his life at 24, until an ordinary Tuesday and a phone call at lunch changed everything, and this conversation is about the long road he walked back through grief, addiction, and recovery. Ryan had married young and moved constantly, and for…
Robin's father went as far as threatening her school to keep control of her. This is a hard one, and it is also about the long road back to believing you are worth something. Out now. The Life Shift Podcast.
Robin wrote her memoir for foster kids who need to hear that a hard beginning is not the whole story. There is a life on the other side of it, and she is proof. Full episode out now. The Life Shift Podcast.
Robin had no money for college, so she figured it out, and that same drive turned into a life of fundraising and helping other people get their shot. Her memoir grew out of all of it. Listen now. The Life Shift Podcast.
By eleven, Robin was budgeting ten dollars a week and cooking for her little sister, a childhood where she became the parent before she got to be a kid. She walks me through all of it here. New episode out now. The Life Shift Podcast.
Robin lost her mom at eight and carried that grief for a lifetime. In this one she talks about how sitting with the hard stuff, and letting people in, is what brought her back to herself. Full conversation out now. The Life Shift Podcast.
At eighteen, Robin flew to Kenya and spent nine months in a nomadic village with no running water and no electricity. She was the only outsider there, and by the end they did not want her to leave. Here she tells me what that year taught her about belonging. New…
At eighteen, Robin flew to Kenya and spent nine months in a nomadic village with no running water and no electricity. She was the only outsider there, and by the end they did not want her to leave. Here she tells me what that year taught her about belonging. New…
Robin lost her mother at eight and was sent into foster care at eleven, and this conversation is about how she found belonging, healing, and a life full of love on the other side of childhood abandonment. By eleven, Robin's father had chosen his girlfriend over his kids and sent…
We close on the bigger picture. How the pivotal, difficult moments are the ones that grow us, and how resilience is less about toughing it out and more about letting the experience change you. A good note to end on.
A short one on how relationships push us to evolve. EJ and Tarah talk about how connecting with someone else's story, and watching them change, quietly levels you up too. Part of why I do this show, honestly.
EJ says he is a man trying to learn how to experience joy, shifting from control to stewardship, from managing everything to actually living. It is disarming to hear someone be that honest about wanting more than a life that just runs smoothly.
Tarah and EJ talk about raising kids who can actually handle their emotions, and how it starts with naming your own out loud. They tell their children when they are triggered and show them the repair. The honesty is the whole lesson.
