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.
Tarah describes learning that safety does not have to come from the outside. She can be in the middle of a spiraling, worst-case thought and still meet herself with, I am okay, I am safe. It is a quiet kind of freedom.
EJ and Tarah talk about non-attachment, and how loosening your grip on someone can actually deepen the love instead of threatening it. I spent a long time believing the opposite, so this one stuck with me.
Tarah describes being a serial monogamist, always the one who left first, until EJ refused to be left behind. She talks about the strange moment she realized she actually wanted the shared future she kept bracing to lose.
Tarah is honest about something a lot of people carry quietly. Becoming a mother of four swallowed her sense of self and her desire, and finding her way back to feeling like a person again took real work. This one will feel familiar to a lot of parents.
They get into what it actually takes to make someone feel safe enough to show you all of themselves, including the parts they are afraid of. EJ talks about accepting Tarah fully, and how that kind of acceptance is where real safety begins.
Kate is a psychic medium, and her story about growing up differently challenged everything I thought I knew about intuition. We sit down to talk about what it means to be a highly sensitive child. It is not just about what you see, but how you move through the world…
Tarah and EJ talk about what happens when love stops being something you manage or negotiate and becomes something you give freely. No pressure, no keeping score. Just two people choosing each other without conditions.
Tarah talks about how understanding what her body had been holding reorganized everything. The anxiety she used to judge herself for, the way certain things never felt safe. Once she saw where it came from, she could meet herself with compassion instead.
EJ describes standing in the kitchen and telling Tarah that if their marriage did not survive, that was okay, because more than anything he wanted her happy. It was the last thing he wanted to say and the beginning of releasing control. He says it did not end his love.…
EJ says this about Tarah, and it reframes their whole marriage. He does not want to be one more person who takes advantage of her kindness. It is one of the more tender things I have heard a partner say out loud.
Brad and I sit with one of the big ones. What actually makes a life worthwhile, once you set aside the stories you inherited and the narratives everyone handed you. No tidy answer here, just an honest conversation about figuring it out for yourself.
