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What Self-Care Looks Like During Collective Trauma
Health & Wellness, Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26 Health & Wellness, Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26

What Self-Care Looks Like During Collective Trauma

After the Ferguson protests, Coco Kennell turned natural soap making into a form of healing, self-care, and community conversation. She shares how skincare, racial healing, sustainability, and self-acceptance became unexpectedly connected.

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What a Former Cop Learned About Systemic Racism in America
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26

What a Former Cop Learned About Systemic Racism in America

Former police officer Peggy Kingsbury shares how growing up white in the Jim Crow South shaped her understanding of systemic racism in America. We talk about implicit bias, foster care, privilege, criminal justice reform, and the lifelong process of becoming anti-racist.

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When Gender Transition Doesn’t Fit the Expected Story
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26

When Gender Transition Doesn’t Fit the Expected Story

Winter Breedlove opens up about gender transition, religious trauma, HIV stigma, heartbreak, addiction, and learning how to feel comfortable in her own body after decades of shame and survival.

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Finding Purpose Again in Life After Military Service
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/9/26

Finding Purpose Again in Life After Military Service

Marine veteran Oscar La Madrid says many veterans don’t just lose a job after deployment. They lose identity, purpose, and community. He opens up about PTSD, reintegration, and what actually helps people rebuild life after military service.

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Growing Up With Alcoholic Parents and Breaking the Cycle
Relationships, Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 6/9/26 Relationships, Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 6/9/26

Growing Up With Alcoholic Parents and Breaking the Cycle

Growing up with alcoholic parents affected nearly every part of Katrina Lelli's life, from her relationships and self-worth to her battle with alcoholism. She shares how she got sober, healed old wounds, and learned to create a different future for her children.

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How One Couple Rebuilt Their Marriage After Trauma
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/3/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/3/26

How One Couple Rebuilt Their Marriage After Trauma

After his wife suffered a traumatic brain injury, Jon Mullins turned to music to process fear, grief, and healing. The Nashville artist opens up about marriage after trauma, writing “Better Man,” going viral on TikTok, and learning how vulnerability can help other people feel less alone.

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Near Death Experiences and the Nature of Consciousness
Spirituality Brandi Fleck 6/2/26 Spirituality Brandi Fleck 6/2/26

Near Death Experiences and the Nature of Consciousness

After surviving three near-death experiences, Masati returned with a radically different view of consciousness, healing, human evolution, and what it means to be fully alive.

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How Hustle Culture Leads to Burnout
Health & Wellness, Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 5/26/26 Health & Wellness, Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 5/26/26

How Hustle Culture Leads to Burnout

Burnout doesn’t always look like collapse. Sometimes it looks like discipline, productivity, wellness, and trying to be “good enough” all the time. Elizabeth Moore explores hustle culture, chronic stress, perfectionism, and the hidden cost of tying your worth to your output.

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Finding Common Ground in a Politically Divided America
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 5/18/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 5/18/26

Finding Common Ground in a Politically Divided America

Long before social media, Clif Doyal was already witnessing how politics can strain relationships. He reflects on the Vietnam War era, integrated bands in the 1970s, and losing connections over political division.

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Why People Stay in Abusive Relationships and What Happens After
Relationships Brandi Fleck 5/18/26 Relationships Brandi Fleck 5/18/26

Why People Stay in Abusive Relationships and What Happens After

What makes someone stay in an abusive relationship for years? Shonda Pence shares her story of emotional abuse, fear, trauma bonding, motherhood, PTSD, and the complicated reality of rebuilding life after finally leaving.

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Healing From Lyme Disease and Learning to Trust Yourself
Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 5/18/26 Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 5/18/26

Healing From Lyme Disease and Learning to Trust Yourself

After doctors repeatedly told Hannah Bethel she didn’t have Lyme disease, her body told a different story. In this deeply personal conversation, the Nashville singer-songwriter shares how chronic illness, holistic healing, yoga, intuition, and solo hiking adventures reshaped both her life and her music career.

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Inside the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge Experience
Society & Culture, Spirituality Brandi Fleck 5/14/26 Society & Culture, Spirituality Brandi Fleck 5/14/26

Inside the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge Experience

What does a 10,000-mile motorcycle challenge reveal about how you live?

Steve Davis shares what the Hoka Hey Motorcycle Challenge taught him about resilience, faith, loss, and why some experiences stay with you long after they’re over.

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How to Learn to Trust Yourself Again
Personal Development Brandi Fleck 5/14/26 Personal Development Brandi Fleck 5/14/26

How to Learn to Trust Yourself Again

Courtenay “Coco” Rogers spent years trying to control how everything unfolded. Here’s a look at what changed when she stopped doing that and started trusting herself instead.

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Healing Abandonment Wounds and Finding Personal Power
Personal Development Brandi Fleck 5/12/26 Personal Development Brandi Fleck 5/12/26

Healing Abandonment Wounds and Finding Personal Power

Why do the same emotional patterns keep showing up in our lives? Psych-K facilitator Ty Briggs joins Brandi Fleck to explore subconscious beliefs, childhood trauma, personal power, spirituality, and the hidden ways our minds shape reality.

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Healing Trauma: The Answer to Human Sustainability
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 5/8/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 5/8/26

Healing Trauma: The Answer to Human Sustainability

What if trauma isn’t the event, but what happens after?

Yemi Penn shares how trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the way we show up in the world. From dissociation to healing, this episode explores what it really means to move forward without ignoring what’s happened.

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How to Listen to Your Body and Heal Trauma
Health & Wellness, Spirituality Brandi Fleck 5/5/26 Health & Wellness, Spirituality Brandi Fleck 5/5/26

How to Listen to Your Body and Heal Trauma

What if your body already knows how to heal and you’ve just been taught not to listen? Tiffany Compton shares how trauma, illness, and survival led her back to her body and how everything changed when she finally said yes to herself.

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Feeling Seen in a World That Wasn’t Built for You
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 4/20/26 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 4/20/26

Feeling Seen in a World That Wasn’t Built for You

What does it mean to feel seen in a world that wasn’t built for you? We explore identity, belonging, and why feeling seen can feel complicated, risky, and deeply personal.

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How a Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer Survivor Learned to Heal
Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 4/15/26 Health & Wellness Brandi Fleck 4/15/26

How a Stage 4 Ovarian Cancer Survivor Learned to Heal

She noticed small changes at first. The kind that are easy to dismiss.

A stage 4 ovarian cancer survivor shares how subtle changes led to a diagnosis she didn’t expect. And how she moved through everything that followed with a perspective shaped by experience, faith, and a deep awareness of her body.

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Is Suffering Optional? How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Gratitude in Life
Personal Development Brandi Fleck 3/24/26 Personal Development Brandi Fleck 3/24/26

Is Suffering Optional? How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Gratitude in Life

What if everything you’ve been taught about happiness, success, and suffering is incomplete? In this mind-expanding conversation, Dr. John Demartini reveals why chasing positivity can actually create more pain and how embracing both sides of life unlocks true meaning, purpose, and fulfillment.

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Guitar. Nicotine. Nashville. She Gave Up One and Crashed Into the Other.
Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/6/25 Society & Culture Brandi Fleck 6/6/25

Guitar. Nicotine. Nashville. She Gave Up One and Crashed Into the Other.

Singer-songwriter duo Pattycakes (Patty Carasquillo) and Boomer Roe share their deeply personal journey into the Nashville music scene—proving that it’s never too late to follow your calling. 

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