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by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise
BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey of emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime, and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet positive and hopeful approach to really find out how these sudden events have affected our guests, and hear about the tools they use to overcome the subsequent struggle and adversity. We will focus on the journey to success and recovery, and hear stories of how our guests overcame trauma, and mental health challenges like PTSD, anxiety, depression and phobias that have often led to addiction, alcoholism, and disorders. While we will focus on the events themselves, and the lasting effects of these moments, our goal in this podcast is to concentrate on the positive journeys of resilience, recovery and hope that comes from these extraordinary stories.
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Send us Fan Mail Trauma has a way of convincing us that what happened to us will always define who we become. For years, Michael Rodriguez, believed many of the fears, insecurities, and survival instincts he carried were simply part of who he was. His childhood was shaped by addiction, domestic violence, and periods spent in women's shelters with his mother as they escaped an unsafe home. As an adult, life brought different challenges. The loss of his father to cancer, years of fi...
Send us Fan Mail Robin Rosenbluth's mother died when she was young, and her abusive and neglectful father put Robin and her sister in foster care - even though other family members offered to take them. Later, with the help of a high school guidance counselor, she was encouraged to continue her education and find scholarships to fund college. What makes her story unique is the year she taught and lived in Songa, a remote village in northern Kenya. There, Robin began to heal from the abuse and...
Send us Fan Mail Dan Stachofsky's story is deeply personal— he lost his daughter at 14 years old, after a medical journey where conventional approaches fell short. That experience shaped not just him, but his entire family, and ultimately led him down a very different path around health and recovery. As you can imagine, this is a deeply moving episode covering the highs and lows of raising a child that needs extra care, all while navigating the healthcare system, znd eventually the alternativ...
Send us Fan Mail Loulita Gill joins us this week for a deeply raw and amazing episode about childhood rejection. Loulita is complex trauma survivor. She was repeatedly told by her mother, as a small child, that she was unwanted. This narrative continued through Loulita’s childhood when her mother actually said the words ‘I rue the day you were born’. The rejection, and PTSD was huge. She has been able to turn her life around and survive what should not have been survivable. Her st...
Send us Fan Mail When Heather White was 27, she was driving with her fiancee, at 2:00am, on Memorial Day weekend, 1981, when all of a sudden, her car stopped dead in the middle of the Long Island Expressway. With no warning, a car crashed into them from behind. The car immediately burst into flames, they were taken to a local hospital and her fiance died shortly thereafter - leaving his two young sons without a father. Heather never saw him again. She had 3rd degree burns over 25% of her body...
Send us Fan Mail This week we welcome Leslie Lopez, host of Mothers in Arms and an advocate for accessible third-party reproduction. She speaks openly about stillbirth, infertility, and the mental health journey of building a family through surrogacy, as a single mother. Leslie spent six years working with California Fertility Partners before having her biological daughter as an independent parent via egg donation and gestational surrogacy. Her story isn't just about the medical proce...
Send us Fan Mail Freya Maberley's family are all neurodivergent. Her siblings/parents and grand parents were all undiagnosed. She was diagnosed ADHD at 53, and she is Autistic too, and proud! Her brother is undiagnosed AuDHD and her home growing up was dictated by anger and violence. She was always considered the 'normal" child in the family, but her high sensitivity meant that she became the responsible one, taking on the people pleaser role of the family dynamic. Freya's son is diagno...
Send us Fan Mail Those who first meet Simon Morrell are often very surprised at his history and background. You see, today, Simon, as one of Wales’ singularly most qualified martial artists and fight coaches with a library of books to his name, comes across as a confident person, but his childhood and early adult years were an experience far from anything that may have provided this. Simon was badly bullied, violently assaulted (at one time, an attempt on his life was made by a knife wieldin...
BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey of emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime, and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet positive and hopeful approach to really find out how these sudden events have affected our guests, and hear about the tools they use to overcome the subsequent struggle and adversity. We will focus on the journey to success and recovery, and hear stories of how our guests overcame trauma, and mental health challenges like PTSD, anxiety, depression and phobias that have often led to addiction, alcoholism, and disorders. While we will focus on the events themselves, and the lasting effects of these moments, our goal in this podcast is to concentrate on the positive journeys of resilience, recovery and hope that comes from these extraordinary stories.
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