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Spirit Talk Show is a storytelling podcast built on genuine human connection. Each episode features meaningful conversations, live cold readings, and shared creativity with remarkable guests.Stories unfold naturally—sometimes eerie, sometimes funny, sometimes deeply moving—through personal memories, original works, and AI-assisted storytelling. Every episode honors real voices, lived experiences, and the power of being fully present.Spirit Talk Show is a space where stories are shared, voices are amplified, and connection comes first.Now go tell a story worth telling.
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- 4 days ago1h 18m
S7-EP12: Hiraeth: Elizabeth Bromstein and the Cabin She Found at the End of Her Own Story
There is a Welsh word — hiraeth — for the feeling of being homesick for a place you have never been. A longing so specific it sits in the chest. A sense, just around the next corner, that something is waiting for you. That you are always about to arrive. Elizabeth Bromstein felt it for decades. She had the city, the career, the resume the world told her to want. And the whole time, she kept dreaming about a cabin in the forest. Then the industry she worked in collapsed. And instead of grabbing the nearest safe shore, she let the wave carry her. She moved into the woods. She built a life out of tarot, perfume, and writing — out of the raw materials of her own what if. And the dreams finally stopped. Because she had arrived. In this episode, Elizabeth and I talk about what it means to follow a feeling you cannot fully name, the real reason tarot works even for people who think tarot is nonsense, what a ghost ceiling can teach you about reality, and why the most interesting place to stand is always the middle ground — not believing, not disbelieving, just honestly curious. She teaches tarot to skeptics and overthinkers, people who flinch at the word manifest, and somehow ends up teaching them more about themselves than they expected to learn from a deck of cards. She does not ask you to convert. She asks you to look. Find Elizabeth at beaumontdriveperfumes.com Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
- 1 weeks ago1h 27m
S7-EP11: What If the Root Goes Deeper: Beatty Carmichael on Healing the Part Medicine Can't Reach
He comes from seven generations of doctors. Surgeons, internists, healers of the body — a family that spent over a century learning how to fix what was broken. And somewhere inside all of that, Beatty Carmichael noticed a leg of the stool that medicine kept leaving out. Not the physical. Not the mental. The third one. The one nobody had a protocol for. In this episode, Beatty walks me through a framework he calls the Prayer of Freedom — a process rooted in ancient Bible text that he has now used with over a thousand people dealing with chronic anxiety, chronic pain, addiction, depression, PTSD, and conditions that medication managed but never resolved. He is not asking anyone to join a church. He is not asking anyone to take anything on faith. He is asking one quiet, radical question: what if some of what we carry has a spiritual root that no prescription was ever designed to reach? What happened in this conversation, I did not expect. Beatty walked me through the process live, on air. I came in skeptical. I have carried a specific kind of anxiety my whole life — a low hum of dread that has no good reason to be there. And by the time we finished, something had shifted. I don't know exactly what to call it. But the tightness in my chest was gone, and in thirty years, I cannot remember a night that felt that quiet. I am not telling you what to think about that. I am telling you it happened. Find Beatty at beatycarmichael.com and theprayeroffreedom.com. Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
- 2 weeks ago1h 28m
S7-EP10: Cracked Open: Jon Paul Crimi on Breathwork, Matthew Perry, and Letting It Go
He walked into his first breathwork class and saw a sheepskin rug, crystals, and oils. He looked around and thought: what is this fresh hell that I have now stepped into? He was from Boston. He did not believe in Mercury in retrograde. He was not the guy for this. Then Matthew Perry bought him a session with a guru, told him he was the only friend who would do it, and asked him to report back. So he went. And something happened that he could not explain. And he spent the next fifteen years figuring out why — stripping away the mysticism, finding the science, and building a method that has now certified over 3,000 practitioners worldwide and put thousands of skeptical, eye-rolling, arms-crossed human beings on the floor and cracked them open. Jon Paul Crimi is a breathwork teacher, former Hollywood screenwriter, sobriety coach, and the guy who figured out how to bring the most woo-woo tool in the wellness world to the people who would never go near it. The SWAT captains. The firefighters. The husbands dragged to class on a Friday night who end up crying in the lobby and asking if they can give him a hug. In this episode, Jon Paul explains what transient hypofrontality actually means — and why it is the thing you have been chasing with every drink, every meditation app, and every therapy session that did not quite get there. He talks about his close friendship with Matthew Perry, the screenplay that was stolen from him in Hollywood and made into a movie, why trauma lives in the body and not the head, and what it looks like when someone's nervous system starts telling the truth before their mind is ready to hear it. He also calls out Doyle live on air for skipping most of the class. Find Jon Paul and his breathwork at https://jonpaulcrimi.com Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
- 3 weeks ago1h 6m
S7-EP9: Rodney Phillips on Dissension, Conflict, and the Courage to Finish 37 Years Later
Some stories don't die. They wait. At 19 years old, Rodney Phillips began writing a novel about conflict — about how a single disagreement can fracture trust, unravel loyalty, and ignite consequences no one can control. Then life happened. Career. Coaching. Fatherhood. Leadership. And the manuscript — handwritten in notebooks and on furniture store layaway cards — sat untouched in a filing cabinet for 37 years. Until one quiet weekend in an empty nest, he opened the drawer. In this powerful episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Rodney shares the journey behind Dissension: A Disagreement That Leads to Discord — a gripping cartel thriller set in Miami that explores loyalty, betrayal, ambition, communication breakdown, and the fragile line between order and chaos. We explore: What 19-year-old Rodney understood about conflict How 37 years of life experience reshaped the story Writing strong female characters in male-dominated worlds Loyalty versus blind obedience — and where the line sits The psychology of disagreement and fractured trust Why unfinished dreams don't disappear — they wait Rodney reads the prologue of Dissension, and we dive into the emotional core of a story that spans decades — both on the page and in the writer's life. This episode isn't just about publishing a novel. It's about reopening a drawer. It's about finishing what you started. It's about proving it's never too late to return to the dream that once defined you. Dissension is currently ranked #9 on Goodreads under Spy Thriller. Learn more about Rodney Phillips and his work at: https://RodneyPhillipsAuthor.com Because sometimes the storm you wrote at 19… is the one you're finally strong enough to finish at 56. Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
- Aug 19, 20261h 24m
S7-EP8: The Underneath Place: Craig Meriwether on Hypnotherapy and Hidden Trauma
Most of what runs your life is not part of you. You would not recognize it if it bumped into you in the street. Underneath the version of you that picks out a t-shirt in the morning and answers emails and makes small talk — there is another you. A quieter one. An older one. The one who learned very early what was safe and what was not. What love looked like. What you were worth. Whether you had to keep your guard up just in case. That version of you does not ask permission. It just runs. And it has been running for decades. Craig Meriwether has spent sixteen years walking carefully, patiently, and with extraordinary skill into that underneath place. He has done it with veterans carrying things no human being should have to carry. With cancer patients. With children, athletes, entrepreneurs, and ordinary tired people who finally said enough. Tonight he did some of it with us, live, on air. This episode is different from most. Craig does not just talk about the work — he teaches it. You will hear two live techniques designed to reset the nervous system, ease anxiety, and begin to rewrite the subconscious story that has been running quietly beneath everything you do. Bring a quiet room. Bring an open hour. Bring yourself. We also go deep into past life regression, the brain as antenna rather than storage house, and what a seventy-year-old woman discovered in three sessions that she had been carrying since she was twelve months old, standing in her crib. Craig is the creator of Depression 180, the Mind Mastery Blueprint, and the Life Transformation Kit. He is a featured author in the New York Times bestselling anthology Pearls of Wisdom alongside Jack Canfield and Marci Shimoff, and has interviewed some of the most compelling voices in consciousness and healing. Find Craig and his work at https://craigmeriwether.com Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
- Aug 12, 20261h 1m
S7-EP7: Sarah Marshall: Burning Man, Impermanence, and the City That Disappears
What does it teach you when a city rises from nothing… and then vanishes on purpose? Doyle is joined by guest co-hosts Howie and Russ for a wide-ranging conversation with Sarah Marshall, author of Playa Dust in My Soul, a novel that drops you into Burning Man through seven distinct characters and a fully lived, 360-degree view of the Playa. Sarah unpacks the deeper philosophy beneath the spectacle: radical self-reliance, the gift economy, participation without an audience, and how impermanence reshapes identity. We talk community and chosen family, what it means to “export” your most authentic self into everyday life, and why so many people return to the Playa year after year. Sarah also reads an excerpt from the opening of her book, grounding us in dust, freedom, discipline, and the strange tenderness of starting over. Then we close with a question that lingers: if all the roles and identities fell away tomorrow, who would remain in the dust? Learn more about Sarah and Playa Dust in My Soul at: playaadustinmysoul.com Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
- Aug 5, 20261h 6m
S7-EP6: Devorah Brinckerhoff on Trauma, Creativity, and the Healing Power of Soul Portraits
In this deeply moving episode of Spirit Talk Show, Doyle sits down with Devorah Brinckerhoff for a powerful conversation about grief, trauma, creativity, and the quiet courage it takes to face the parts of ourselves we were taught to hide. Devorah shares how her work with Soul Portraits was born not from theory, but from survival—through loss, family rupture, profound betrayal, and the long process of reclaiming identity after trauma. What emerged was a creative healing practice that helps people transform letters, photographs, journals, and other personal artifacts into visual expressions of truth, memory, and becoming. Together, Doyle and Devorah explore what it means to carry pain in the body, why traditional talking sometimes is not enough, how objects can hold emotional energy, and why healing is not about erasing the past but transforming our relationship to it. They also talk about shame, self-worth, grief, inner wisdom, and the surprising power of making something with your own hands when words no longer reach deep enough. This is a conversation about the stories we carry, the identities we outgrow, and the possibility of meeting ourselves with more compassion than judgment. A soulful, vulnerable, and unforgettable episode for anyone who has ever wondered whether broken pieces can still become something beautiful. Learn more about Devorah Brinckerhoff and Soul Portraits: https://soulportrait.art/ Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
- Jul 29, 202651 min
S7-EP5: Opening the Box: Mike Balaban, 50,000 Photos, and the History He Didn't Know He Was Making
Mike Balaban didn't set out to be a historian. He was a closeted Wall Street banker who drove across America in 1978 with a dog-eared copy of the Bob Dameron guide, a yellow legal pad, and a camera — stopping at every gay bar between New York and San Diego, writing reviews in the margins of his own life. He took photos he thought no one else would ever want. He kept diary entries that could have cost him everything. He put it all in a box. Decades later, he opened that box. And what he found was all of us. In this episode, Mike talks about what it cost to survive in a world that was actively trying to erase you, the summer in San Diego that taught him how to be gay, a bartender named Beau who became his home and then his grief, and why the real LGBTQ history isn't just Stonewall and Harvey Milk — it's the man at the edge of the parade, shaking, camera raised, hoping nobody from the office walks by. We also talk about his upcoming book The Accidental Gay Historian, his community archive at BAMMER.co, and why he believes that if you don't write your own history, you get written out of it. He told me he was just keeping things for himself. I don't believe him. Find Mike at BAMMER.co and @bamer47 on Instagram and YouTube. His podcast is Bama and Me. Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow www.spirittalkshow.info If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow
About Spirit Talk Show - Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups
Spirit Talk Show is a storytelling podcast built on genuine human connection. Each episode features meaningful conversations, live cold readings, and shared creativity with remarkable guests.Stories unfold naturally—sometimes eerie, sometimes funny, sometimes deeply moving—through personal memories, original works, and AI-assisted storytelling. Every episode honors real voices, lived experiences, and the power of being fully present.Spirit Talk Show is a space where stories are shared, voices are amplified, and connection comes first.Now go tell a story worth telling.
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