Episodes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Couples therapist Zach Brittle on quitting alcohol, confronting the anger underneath it, and rebuilding his family one honest moment at a time.

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.

A retired engineer reclaims her voice, her breath, and her story decades after childhood shame, and finds healing at her mother's deathbed.

Ranae Van Roekel kept a childhood secret for decades until it led her into fraud, prison, and finally, the healing she never expected.

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.

Drew Norton found his infant son not breathing and his marriage on the line. A story about drifting, fear, faith, and showing up.

Actor Carly Otte opens up about facing cancer twice, losing her sense of self at thirty, and finding a gentler definition of success.

A world class cellist felt relief, not grief, the night her career quietly ended. Kate Kayaian on identity, permission, and starting over at midlife.

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.

Colette Jane Fehr spent years in a marriage that looked perfect from the outside. In this episode, she shares the moment she realized emotional connection had been missing all along, and what it took to finally find her voice.

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Laurie Collister lost almost everything in a house fire, but her 300 handwritten diaries survived. What she found inside them changed how she saw herself completely.

David S. Bernknopf left CNN after 20 years, moved to Alaska on a cold call, and wrote his first novel at 68. A story about identity, loneliness, and what your kids know that you don't.

T. Alex Blum grew up knowing he was adopted but never asking why. Then a 23andMe message changed everything, and he discovered three brothers he never knew existed.

Adoption, Identity, and Finding Home