Becoming Who You Truly Are!

Ben Lesser was born in Kraków, Poland in 1928 and his life changed at age ten when the German army invaded his city.

Ben's childhood and teen years would be spent in terror, surviving countless acts of violence by Nazi soldiers in the Bochnia Ghetto, two separate death trains, a seven-week death march, and f...

I recently had the amazing experience of sitting down with Siân Lloyd-Pennell, writer for the Honest Guys. Her visionary, larger-than-life scripts have served over one million YouTube subscribers and garnered almost half a billion views of their wonderful videos!

Siân I discuss the origin story of The Honest Guys, spiritual expansion, inner peace, compassion, and the meaning of life. We hope this video uplifts, relaxes, and inspir...

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Field of Dreams is one of my all-time favorite movies - especially the last scene where Dwier Brown plays the role of Kevin Costner's character's father.

I was honored to have a conversation with Dwier on fate, fatherhood, and Field of Dreams in celebration of Father's Day 2022 and in this podcast Morgan and I go back and react to that conversation including parts of the chat that were previously unre...

My college friend Joy Bedillion joins the podcast to talk about a recent Acadiana Symphony tour to Poland, meeting classical music icon Yo-Yo Ma, and vacationing in Scotland, all of which taught her the power of human connection.

Join us as Joy shares stories about performing with a soloist who played the infamous Red Violin, performing at the at the Penderecki Music Center in Poland, meeting Yo-Yo Ma, and how the life lessons she ...

Kids come into the world full of creativity, and curiosity, but adults shut down who a child truly is by instilling fear through Christian teachings of hell and the rapture, confusion around sexuality and gender before they are ready to be exposed to those topics, guilt around their skin color, polarization through labels and telling kids which groups of people are 'good' and 'bad,' and the insanity of school shootings and having t...

This week's guest, Camille Brattli, grew up in the Philippines in a very tight-knit family unit and church community.

There wasn't enough room for her to say no and be herself, so she spent her twenties living in Thailand, the Netherlands, and Norway before she finally gained her sense of self and learned how to say no.

Camille's story sheds light on ways that we can learn to identify when others are pressuring us to conform into p...

This week, I am honored to be talking to Lana Jernigan, who helped raise a whole generation of youth group kids through her long tenure at a summer camp ministry near Fayetteville, NC called Camp Dixie!

Lana was one of the few adults who actually seemed to make sense to me when I was a teenager, so naturally, she made a huge impression on me and I thought it would be fun to have her on the show to reminisce together and to hear ab...

To celebrate ten episodes of the Becoming Who You Truly Are podcast, my friend Morgan Thompson asked me questions that you, the listeners, submitted!

We talk about a range of subjects from maturity, my new adventure starting my first job in Norway, how to live a happy life, how to stop war, why it's so hard to find a good job, our favorite classical instruments, ethical dilemmas, morality, learning Norwegian and American Sign Langu...

Call me! This week, I’m THRILLED to be speaking with Gary Lachman, who played bass guitar for the iconic rock group Blondie before embarking upon a successful legacy as a biographer of major figures in philosophy, psychology, and mysticism.

Gary and I begin by discussing his wonderful book Jung the Mystic, which I stumbled upon in a library several years ago.

Then, we talk about the turning points in Gary’s life story: comic book...

This week Nancy Walker (retired professor of voice at UNC Greensboro) and I talk about proud memories during her 33 year teaching career as well as life lessons from marriage, motherhood, and her Quaker faith.

In this episode, Nancy shares three important turning points in her journey to letting her life speak authentically: taking a big leap in changing her major from English to music in undergraduate studies, meeting her husband...

This week my gym buddy KC Andersen joins the podcast to talk about turning points in his life that helped him grow into a more authentic version of himself.

In this episode, KC gets real about how losing his mom at an early age helped him understand personal responsibility, how a brain injury helped him appreciate life more, and how having kids taught him the true meaning of priorities and sacrifice.

KC and I have a lot of fun with...

Originally from Orange County, California, Courtney Draughon ended up seeing the world through the Air Force before meeting my nephew and having a beautiful baby boy!

In this episode, Courtney and I reminisce on our first impressions of each other as well as our recent time together in Doha, Qatar, where she currently lives.

We talk about her childhood in Orange County, California, and her high school years.

Courtney shares about h...

This week I'm joined by my longtime friend Mickey Peters who has seen me through all sorts of ups, downs, and sideways turns over the last decade of my life!

In this episode, Mickey gets real about how his college years helped him go from an intellectual understanding of God to a real, intimate relationship with his Higher Power.

Mickey courageously shares about how a marital affair helped him develop a deeper relationship with him...

My childhood piano teacher Kristen Anderson has created a powerful legacy through her holistic methods that teach students how to laugh at ourselves, to just breathe when we get nervous, and that our value and worth is NOT tied to our talent.

In this episode, Kristen and I reminisce on her first impressions of me as a sixth grader and her childhood working in tobacco fields with her highly musical family, as well as in depth discus...

My amazing friend Tushar Niras used curiosity to fuel his rise from the slums of Mumbai to jobs in Google and Amazon!

In this episode, Tushar and I discuss the meaning of his name and tattoo, what life was like in his childhood village, and how life changed when his family moved to the slums of Mumbai.

We talk about his culture shock in moving from a village of 1,000 people to one of the biggest cities in the world, how he didn't...

My childhood best friend Morgan Thompson and I take a trip down memory lane! Morgan and I reminisce on how there wasn’t a time we don’t remember being friends, we remember showing animals during our 4-H days, and share memories from church youth group, and spill the beans on a very memorable night at a Kelly Clarkson concert!

We open up about how as teenagers we hid parts of who we truly were and how lucky we felt to be each other’...

Hardeep Phull, M.D. (cancer doctor, pilot, girl dad) shares his journey to becoming himself up to this point in his life.

He opens up about his path to becoming a medical doctor, including his mom's career as an oncology nurse, volunteering at the VA as a teenager, being rejected from medical school and how that shaped his journey, and how the financial support of Cleveland Clinic's endowment helped him choose his interest in oncol...

Welcome to the Becoming Who You Truly Are podcast!

We all come into the world as unique personalities. Personalities that come from a part of us which existed before we were born and continue long after death.

But while we’re on Earth, with all its joys and wonders and mountains and waterfalls and people and animals and rainforests, well, it seems like we get so excited by the playground that we forget that deepest part of ourselve...