Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health
The Glow For Hope Podcast is dedicated to illuminating the path to mental wellness by fostering open, compassionate conversations about mental health. Our goal is to reduce stigma, educate, empower, and provide tangible support for those navigating mental health challenges, suicide prevention, and overall well-being. Through storytelling, expert insights, and community engagement, we create a space where listeners feel heard, understood, and inspired to take proactive steps toward mental wellness.
Episodes
What happens when being needed becomes the way you prove you are worthy of love?
Dr. Calvin Spinks spent much of his life believing that if he could make himself valuable enough, helpful enough, and useful enough, people would keep him in their lives.
In this deeply personal conversation with host Kelly Poelker, Dr. Cal shares how childhood rejection, racism, instability, and questions of identity and belonging contributed to peopl...
A person can appear successful, dependable, and completely in control while privately carrying more than anyone around them realizes.
They can continue working, solving problems, caring for other people, and meeting every expectation while their mental health quietly deteriorates beneath the surface.
Rebecca Lazzelle understands that divide from lived experience.
A lifelong overachiever and former corporate process improvement dire...
What if one simple change in perspective could transform the way you carry grief?
After losing her 18-year-old son, Wes, to suicide, Camille Ellis believed she would never experience happiness the same way again. Like so many people navigating profound loss, the weight of grief seemed impossible to escape.
Then she realized something that would forever change the way she viewed her son's life—and her own.
"A lot of people get...
When we think about mental health, older adults are often left out of the conversation.
Yet they may be carrying a lifetime of grief, caregiving, health challenges, trauma, and life transitions—while growing up in a generation that was taught to keep those struggles to themselves.
In this episode of Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health, Kelly Poelker welcomes Jodi Gardner, Executive Director of the St. Clair ...
Richard Lynch: When the Helper Becomes the One Who Needs Help
Addiction recovery, grief after suicide, PTSD, men’s mental health, faith, and the reminder that you are not the worst thing you’ve ever done
Host: Kelly Poelker
Guest: Richard Lynch, MA, LCADC
Category: Men’s Mental Health · Addiction Recovery · Grief · Trauma · Suicide Prevention
What happens when the person trained to help others finds hi...
What happens when the man holding everything together is quietly falling apart inside?
In this deeply honest episode of Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health, Sean Carey shares the real story behind his message of discipline, ownership, and personal growth.
Sean opens up about surviving years of alcoholism in the home, protecting his children during chaos, becoming a single father, emotional exhaustion, grief, survi...
Dr. Patrick Porter joins Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health for a powerful conversation on what chronic stress is really doing to your brain—and how to take control of your mental health again.
As the founder of BrainTap and a leading expert in brainwave entrainment, Dr. Porter breaks down the science behind brain fog, exhaustion, negative thought patterns, and why so many people feel mentally depleted toda...
What if the problem is not just what someone is carrying internally, but also what they are walking into every day at work?
In this episode of the Glow For Hope Podcast, host Kelly Poelker sits down with Dr. Colleen Saringer, a workplace mental health speaker and researcher on a mission to stop work from hurting people.
With more than 25 years of experience as a Global Organizational Health Leader and a lifetime of lived experience...
Megan Hurley shares her journey as a traumatic brain injury survivor and how life changed in an instant. In this powerful conversation, she opens up about identity loss, depression, survivor guilt, and how speaking up, finding community, and advocating for herself helped her rediscover purpose and hope.
The post Megan Hurley: Hope, Identity, and Finding Purpose After Traumatic Brain Injury first appeared on Glow For Hope | Suicide ...
David Granirer shares how stand-up comedy helps people with mental health challenges build confidence and challenge stigma.
The post David Granirer: Turning Mental Health Struggles Into Confidence Through Comedy first appeared on Glow For Hope | Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Awareness.
Dr Olivia Johnson explains why silence around mental health gets trained and how earlier conversations can help prevent crisis before it escalates.
The post Dr Olivia Johnson: Why Silence Gets Trained — And How We Prevent Crisis Before It Starts first appeared on Glow For Hope | Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Awareness.
A lot of people want to help — they just don’t know what to say. In this episode, Frank King shares practical, compassionate language for talking about depression and suicide before crisis. You’ll learn the direct questions that open the door, what to avoid saying, and how to be a safer person to talk to.
The post Frank King: Humor, Vulnerability, and How to Start the Suicide Conversation first appeared on Glow Fo...
Sports can build resilience — but for many student-athletes, pressure, injury, and silence can quietly erode self-worth. In this episode, Matt Benson shares his lived experience with grief, depression, addiction, and the identity hit that can come when the game is taken away. A conversation for athletes, parents, coaches, and anyone who wants to support mental health beyond the scoreboard.
The post Matt Benson: Mental Health,...
Lawrence C. Harris shares s practical, teen-focused conversation on self-belief, consistency, and taking ownership—plus a clear explanation of C-PTSD vs. PTSD.
The post Lawrence C. Harris on Self-Belief, Small Steps, and Taking Ownership as a Teen first appeared on Glow For Hope | Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Awareness.
Linda Mitchell (Metro East Literacy Project) joins Glow For Hope to explore the mental health impact of not being able to read — including shame, stress, isolation, and the hidden ways low literacy affects independence across generations. This conversation connects literacy, access, and emotional well-being, and shares practical ways communities can help.
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Emmy Award–winning media advisor and former MTV talent developer Vinnie Potestivo joins Kelly and Delisa for a candid conversation about identity, belonging, and personal development. He shares how growing up as a young gay man, navigating family dynamics, and finding safe spaces shaped the way he shows up today — for himself and for the people he supports.
The post Vinnie Potestivo on Identity, Belonging & Personal...
Lux (Ashley Elzinga) joins Kelly and Delisa to talk about walking away from a 15-year radio career, facing anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts, and how cannabis education became a meaningful part of her mental health toolkit. She shares honestly about stigma, support, and the power of storytelling and community to help people feel less alone.
The post Lux (Ashley Elzinga) on Mental Health, Reinvention, and the Power of Canna...
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