Episodes

Misha Brown shares how one question on Christmas Eve, asked in a New Jersey hotel mirror, became the start of eight years of sobriety, self-love, and a life he actually recognizes.

Tim Thomas survived a shark attack off Sydney and discovered that what we need most isn't more stuff. It's trust. A conversation about isolation, sleep, and finding your way back.

Kathleen McKune spent decades as a high-achieving entrepreneur before a single data point revealed her childhood was far from normal. Her story of trauma, resilience, and healing.

Matin Miryeganeh lost her mother at 13, her family's support, and the permission to grieve. This episode is about what happens when you survive alone and slowly find your way back to yourself.

Matt Fogelson lost his father before they ever really knew each other, and when he became a dad himself, a single unplanned song in the middle of the night started him on a years-long journey back to himself.

Nick Gomez spent years repeating the same patterns in relationships until one honest conversation, the kind that cost him everything, finally started to change him.

When Rebe Huntman finally stopped moving forward and took a pilgrimage to Cuba, she discovered that her mother had been waiting there all along.

Shruti shares her journey living with multiple sclerosis, from early symptoms and a wheelchair to writing her memoir and choosing resilience every day.

Stephen Panus lost his 16-year-old son Jake in a sudden accident. This conversation explores grief, forgiveness, guilt, and what it means to keep walking when part of you didn’t survive.

At fourteen, Nick Prefontaine survived a coma that doctors said would end his independence, and spent the next two decades quietly building a life, a business, and a calling around the very voice that told him he'd run out of that hospital.

Evan Boyer learned that the life he was supposed to be building couldn't hold him until a Christmas morning NICU stay and a career gut-check arrived at the same time and showed him what it actually meant to let go.

A Navy SEAL veteran shares how a nine-year addiction brought him to his knees, and how rock bottom became the foundation of his life's real mission.

A stroke took Deb Meyerson's voice, her mobility, and eventually her Stanford career, and this is the story of how she and her husband Steve found a way to build something meaningful from what remained.

Wendy B. Correa discovered at 62 that her father wasn't her biological dad. Her story of childhood loss, family secrets, and healing is for anyone carrying something they were never allowed to say out loud.

Chris Magleby's story is about what happens when the control you've spent your whole life building finally cracks, and what you find when you stop trying to think your way out.

Eugene Z. Bertrand survived domestic violence and a near-death experience. On The Life Shift Podcast, he shares how radical acceptance and vulnerability helped him reclaim his power.

After losing her son at 23, adventurer and author Dianette Wells had to find her way back to a world that had lost its sparkle, and she did it one step, one trail, and one yes at a time.

A conversation about the life shift that happens when you lose the chance to capture someone’s story, and the quiet urgency that follows.

A tender conversation about loving fully, grieving honestly, and staying open to life even after profound loss.

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me after more than two hundred conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about the small moments that end up changing everything. Not the dramatic events we can point to, but the quieter shifts. The split second where you choose something different. The small yes or no that later becomes a turning point. The thought you almost ignore until it finally lands. In this reflection, I talk about t...

A quiet conversation about learning to stay open and find meaning when life moves you through loss and change.

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me after the conversations on The Life Shift. Today, I am talking about starting over and the quiet moments when someone realizes life cannot keep going the way it has been. These beginnings rarely look dramatic. They show up as discomfort, restlessness, or a small truth that refuses to stay quiet. They arrive long before anything changes on the outside. In this reflection, I talk about how starting a...

A conversation about love, loss, and the quiet courage it takes to stay open when life refuses to follow the plan.

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me after the conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about the moment you finally say the thing you have been holding in. It is rarely dramatic. It is rarely loud. Most of the time it is a quiet shift in the air. A small release. A truth that has been waiting for you to stop hiding. In this reflection, I talk about the fear that comes before speaking the truth, the relief that follows, and...