Episodes

Jennifer Griffith learned at 13 to carry her family's silence. Hear how her father's last words sent her to the page at 42, and what it took to finally write the book.

Margaret Eastman Smith left the movement she was born into at 35 and drove to Boston to start over. Hear what she kept and what she left behind.

Oliver Christen came home for one year and stayed. Hear how he supported his mother at the end of her life and what it taught him about letting go.

Charu Moorjani woke on her honeymoon unable to lift a croissant. Hear how that morning cracked open a checklist life and led her back to herself.

Former Queensland detective Todd Maguire spent years undercover as "Donny" trying to outrun grief. Here's how a memoir and his own family finally brought him back.

Travis White hid his seizures and depression for fifteen years. A 2024 crisis and a call to 988 finally pushed him toward the help that changed everything.

After surviving an assault in her first months in Los Angeles, Angela Harger Thompson said yes to sailing the Pacific with no experience, got stranded at sea when COVID shut the world down, and came home knowing she no longer had to wait to be chosen.

Poet Brittany Perham stopped talking to her alcoholic father for almost 15 years. After he died, she learned he'd named her executor of a deeply indebted estate.

Chloe Kelly spent 45 years suppressing her true identity. One lunch break and a face filter changed everything. This is her story of transition, joy, and becoming real.

Flight paramedic Jeff Abbott spent 25 years not cracking. Then a helicopter crash took his friend and everything changed. A raw story about grief, anger, and healing.

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.

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.

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.

Robin lost her mom at eight and entered foster care at eleven. A story of abandonment, resilience, and building a life overflowing with love.

Two therapists share how a ketamine session surfaced buried trauma and taught them love and safety cannot be forced, only created.

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.

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.