The Artist Within Podcast
The Artist Within Podcast is a Project Human Inc. production hosted by founder Adela Hittell. The show explores creativity, storytelling, mental and emotional wellness, advocacy, faith, resilience, and the human experience of becoming. Launched in July 2024, T.A.W. began as a space to celebrate artists and creators using their stories, talents, and lived experiences to inspire others. Now in Season 2, the podcast expands into deeper conversations about self-care, community, identity, trauma-informed growth, creative healing, and peer-to-peer advocacy. Through solo reflections, guest interviews, Monthly Community Conversations, and PHInc. updates, The Artist Within invites listeners to define their own narrative, reconnect with themselves, and take practical steps toward healing, growth, and purpose. The Artist Within Podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. Project Human Inc. is a peer-to-peer advocacy organization. We are not medical professionals, and this podcast should not be considered medical advice. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 or dial 911 for immediate assistance.
Episodes
Your brain is already repeating phrases all day long. The question we wrestle with is simple and uncomfortable: are those phrases building you up, or quietly wearing you down? We host a Project Human monthly community conversation on the power of positive affirmations, and we treat them like a real-world mental health tool, not a magic trick. No pretending. No “everything is fine” energy. Just honest, pe...
Some relationships feel good for a night out. The ones that change your life are the ones that can handle your worst day, your ugly truth, and the long road back to yourself. We’re talking about that kind of partnership, the kind built in private when nobody is clapping, and the kind that forces you to admit, “Hi, it’s me, I’m the problem,” so you can finally start healing instead of re...
What happens when the person everyone leans on needs someone to lean on?
In this episode of The Artist Within, Adela sits down with Zach Phillips, a Jacksonville financial representative with Western & Southern Financial Group, for an honest conversation about rebuilding after divorce. Zach shares what it felt like to lose touch with himself, why asking for help was difficult, and how family, friends, and communi...
Your calendar is packed, your brain is loud, and the world keeps asking for more. So what does real self-care look like when you only have ten minutes and zero extra energy? We sit down with our Project Human community for a peer-to-peer conversation about “ceremonies of care” and why small, intentional rituals can be the difference between getting through the day and actually feeling like yourself again...
For years, Tonya Jackson felt as though two versions of her existed: the confident leader who continued showing up—and the woman underneath who felt ugly, avoided mirrors, and wanted to disappear.
After a traumatic birth experience and an unexpected reaction to medication, Tonya began developing vitiligo, an autoimmune condition that causes the skin to lose pigment. When the changes reached her face, being visi...
A dream can break, a plan can evaporate, and you still have to wake up and decide who you are. That is the heartbeat of this conversation with returning guest Claire Louise Huder, an actor, writer, director, producer, and founder of Cinder Pictures LLC. We talk about resilience as something you build through real responsibility, real setbacks, and the choice to keep coming back. Claire shares what changed since her ...
Fashion can be a mirror, a mask, or a lifeline. We’re taking the lifeline route, and we’re inviting you into the story behind Runway to Resilience, our September 19 fashion and art fundraiser for Project Human in Jacksonville. The whole point is simple and hard at the same time: celebrate resilience without pretending the hard parts never happened, and use art to bridge the gaps where humans need it most...
Pain can steal more than movement. It can steal your plan, your confidence, and the version of you that felt unstoppable. Today we sit down with Kali Farnsworth, a 16-year-old athlete and early college student, to talk about what happens when chronic knee pain and repeated sports injuries force you to rethink everything you thought your future would look like.
Kali shares her real timeline: tearing her MCL at...
This month's Community Conversation explores the identities we carry throughout life—the parent, caregiver, leader, survivor, peacemaker, employee, friend, and countless others.
Together, we reflect on how these "hats" shape our thoughts, responsibilities, and relationships, while asking an important question:
At what point do the roles we wear stop serving us?
Through honest stories and thoughtful discussion, we...
Men’s health isn’t just a number on a scale or a clean lab report, and we wanted a conversation that treats it like the full-body, full-life reality it is. We sit down with our community and hear honest stories of turning points that force clarity: a shoulder replacement that changes everything, a heart attack at 32 that reshapes priorities overnight, and a prediabetes warning that becomes a catalyst for...
Your body isn’t being dramatic, it’s sending data. We sit down for a candid monthly community conversation on women’s health, and we start where most of us actually live: doing everything for everyone else, running on low sleep, and telling ourselves we’ll deal with it later.
We connect the emotional side of women’s health to the physical reality, including why chronic stress sho...
Forgiveness can sound like a rule you’re forced to follow, but we treat it like something far more honest: a decision you make so your body and mind can stop carrying what hurts. Our monthly community conversation gets into the real questions people avoid saying out loud. What if forgiving doesn’t mean excusing the damage? What if you can forgive and still leave? And what if the hardest person to forgive...
On this deeply personal episode, I share the truth of what it means to survive, rebuild, and choose renewal. April 16 marks 33 years since the day my life changed forever, and for the first time, I can speak about it from a place of acceptance, faith, and peace. This is a conversation about trauma, resilience, God’s grace, and the decision to define your life by how you rise, not by what tried to break you.
You can love people deeply and still be running on empty, and that “empty” shows up as stress, anxiety, resentment, brain fog, and burnout that feels normal because it’s been your baseline for years. We sit down for a monthly community conversation with PHInc. to get practical about self-care and self-love, then push the idea further into what we call care of self: the daily, unglamorous skill of r...
Some stories begin at the bottom of a valley and keep climbing, one deliberate step at a time. This conversation is one of them: a raw, faith-forward journey through complex PTSD, dissociative amnesia, a medical maze that offered more pills than answers, and the stubborn decision to “try” until trying became living. We share how a childhood shaped by war rewired memory, how the body kept the score in nos...
Some conversations change how we move through the world. This one starts with a simple idea—showing up—and expands into a working model of compassion you can practice today: presence over fixing, empathy with boundaries, and community care that protects everyone’s safety and dignity.
We share why self-compassion is the first step toward sustainable support, then map the bridge from connectio...
After a long hiatus following a car accident, I return to share how daily gratitude practice and self-advocacy helped me navigate serious healthcare challenges while strengthening my faith and purpose.
• Starting each day with a "thank you prayer" creates powerful positive energy that sustains you through difficulties
• Car accidents and healthcare systems can test our faith and resolve in unexpected ways<...
This episode isn't just about fashion photography or magazine features—it's a testament to how creativity can transform our darkest moments into something beautiful, how authentic self-expression leads to unexpected opportunities, and why the act of creation itself is often more valuable than the recognition that follows. Whether you're an artist seeking inspiration or simply searching for meaning through crea...
What happens when mental health support gets stripped to its most essential element—human connection? In this groundbreaking first episode of Project Human's Monthly Community Conversations, founder Adela Hittel takes us on a journey that challenges everything we think we know about mental health advocacy.
Born from Adela's own harrowing experience in 2017 when she found herself alone during a suicidal ...
Adela welcomes award-winning filmmaker William Cook to discuss their creative partnership and how art heals trauma. Cook shares his journey from Florida to LA, the making of his Western short film "Blood Money," and how a desert sandstorm became an unexpected creative element.
• Project Human's upcoming events include a September 2025 event, Quarterly Mental Health Day on September 7th, and an online fundrais...
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