Episodes

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

The Boy Who Decided to Get Up

A Dog, a River, and Breaking the Cycle of Abuse

Peter Bailey crossed a bridge on the outside of a fence just to feel seen. Years later, sobriety and the hero's journey gave him a map for every chapter of his life.

Host Matt Gilhooly introduces the show and why he created it.

Scott Martin lost his limbs at 35 after a coma. This is the story of how he chose a list over despair and rebuilt everything, one decision at a time.

Jen Dary was 35 when a lemon-sized brain tumor changed everything. In this episode, she shares what survival, grief, and radical life shifts really look like.

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.