Release Doubt, Reveal Purpose

What if your biggest detour was the doorway to a truer life? That’s the pulse of our conversation with Arlene Cohen Miller, who traded a steady legal career for a practice rooted in coaching, mentoring, and meditation. We unpack how a mother’s quest to support a neurodivergent child can become a mirror for her own nervous system, values, and boundaries—and how the tools that help our kids often end up healing us.

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Some conversations feel scary until someone hands you the right words. We brought together two suicide attempt survivors, Deborah and Brian, to share the tools, language, and lived insight that help families break silence, reduce shame, and make safer choices when emotions run high. 

Their prevention-first approach is built for real life: short lessons, tactile workbooks, and simple prompts that help kids separate powerful feelings ...

We explore how a 70-day hospital journey, a near-death encounter, and a “stadium of light” experience reframed our approach to surrender, discernment, and purpose.  

Holly Porter joins us to share how seventy days in critical care, two intubations, and a chorus of unseen prayers sparked a profound pivot from doing to being. Her story moves from out-of-body moments to a near-death encounter she calls the “stadium of light,” where mus...

Purpose can dim quietly. The tasks you once loved blur into dread, and the calendar fills while your energy thins. 

Our guest, thought habit expert and author Amy Kemp, shares how a thriving sales leadership career gave way to a deeper calling when familiar work started to feel heavy. That shift led her to the Habit Finder assessment, a tool that measures subconscious habits of thinking and pairs them with practical rewiring strateg...

What if the fastest path to peak performance isn’t more hustle, but a quieter shift—one that starts in the heart and ends in decisive action? 

Dr. Lise Janelle joins us to unpack how life’s hardest seasons can become training grounds for strength, clarity, and purpose. From champion rowing and clinical practice to a cascade of personal losses, her story reveals why willpower isn’t enough if your subconscious believes success is unsa...

We trace the link between emotional health and spiritual growth, and how loving your wounded parts turns pain into usable wisdom. Dean and HollyKem share stories, tools, and a simple framework for self-love that strengthens faith and marriage.

• healthy vs unhealthy religion and the cost of hiding pain
• seminary and street journeys that meet in purpose
• addiction recovery, family systems, and patterns
• lovin...

What if the life you built isn’t the life you want—and the way through isn’t more hustle, but more trust? We sit down with Dr. Nona Djavid, an immigrant from Iran who did everything “right”: advanced degrees, a thriving practice, marriage, and motherhood. Then, in a quiet moment on a closet floor, she realized strategy had delivered success without fulfillment—and chose a new path anchored in surrender, identity, and ease.

We trace Beth Green’s journey from a nine-year-old activist to an intuitive counselor who grounds social change in oneness, mutual support, and evolved ego. We challenge exclusionary religion, reframe purpose as co-creation, and offer practices to align inner healing with outer impact.

• early activism, refusal to conform, moral courage
• burnout and 12‑step surrender as a doorway to serenity
• intuitive awakening ...

Peter Gunn shares his transformative near-death experience that occurred during his childhood and the profound spiritual gifts it awakened in him, including prophetic visions and heightened intuition.

• Experiencing death at age six after suffering heat stroke, seeing his body from above, and traveling through a tunnel of light
• Meeting angels who told him "your job isn't done" before returning to his b...

Alexis Leigh shares her powerful journey from living what appeared to be a perfect life to confronting childhood trauma and finding true purpose through writing her book "Pain is a Portal to Beauty."

• Hearing a voice in the woods telling her, "If you die today, your life will have been a tragedy," became her pivotal turning point
• Recognizing how childhood trauma with her mother's death from ...

Relationship coach André Paradis reveals how men and women operate with fundamentally different communication systems that cause constant misunderstandings despite speaking the same language. His personal journey from feeling like "a mistake" to becoming an expert in relationship dynamics showcases how understanding gender differences can transform troubled relationships.

• Men primarily need respect while women ...

Lyubim Kogan, a 9/11 survivor, shares his transformative journey from Wall Street to founding Wings for Heroes, a mission helping wounded veterans rebuild their lives through adventure therapy, physical rehabilitation, and community support.

• Survived 9/11 and used Red Cross assistance to start his financial practice, where his first client was a Vietnam veteran with PTSD
• Witnessed the realities of war while working...

What happens when your brain finally reveals trauma it's been hiding from you for decades? In this powerful conversation, reality television personality Lannette West shares the transformative moment when she uncovered repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse while standing in her bathroom mirror, finally seeing herself with compassion.

Lannette takes us through her journey of addiction, overachievement, and feeli...

Mark Motsenbocker shares his transformative journey of finding purpose after losing both parents in a car accident at age eight and being raised by his grandmother Dorothy, who taught him valuable lessons about giving and legacy.

• Lost both parents at age eight in a tragic car accident three days after Christmas
• Grandmother Dorothy Hanson, a widow, took in Mark and his four siblings
• Mark's grandmother emb...

Diane Gansauer shares her extraordinary journey of transformation from a successful but unfulfilling career in wildlife conservation to becoming a funeral celebrant and long-distance hiker, discovering her true purpose along the way.

• Leaving a 20-year executive career that looked perfect on paper but felt misaligned with her soul
• Receiving a divine opportunity to establish a celebrant program for North America&apos...

Dr. Bruce Chalmer explores the transformative power of forgiveness after betrayal, sharing insights from his 30+ years as a psychologist specializing in couples therapy. He reveals a practical three-step forgiveness process that creates internal freedom and healing even after the most painful betrayals.

• Betrayal comes in many forms beyond infidelity, including financial deception and broken trust between family members

Sylvia Worsham welcomes Amita Sharma to discuss how women can navigate perimenopause through holistic approaches that restore energy, focus, and joy. After experiencing debilitating symptoms herself and finding little help from traditional medicine, Amita discovered a combination of modalities that transformed her health and became her life's purpose.

• Perimenopause symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, and mood swings c...

Kevin Palmieri shares his powerful journey from contemplating suicide to finding purpose as a podcaster and speaker, revealing how facing fears consistently led to transformation.

• Raised without knowing his father until age 27, developing deep-seated feelings of inadequacy
• Job-hopped from gas station attendant to construction, making excellent money but feeling empty
• Reached rock bottom in a hotel room contem...

Michelle Hensley shares her powerful journey from tragedy to triumph after unexpectedly losing her husband to cancer in 2014. With remarkable resilience, she transformed from a pastor's wife with no business experience into the founder of the nation's leading mobile gift wrapping company that now serves the White House.

• Facing life as a 51-year-old widow with no workforce experience after 14 years as a pastor&a...