Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. In this episode of Rupture, host Wendy Lurrie welcomes back Nina Scherenberg for an intimate and devastatingly honest conversation about what happens when one rupture becomes many. After a traumatic birth, Nina sensed something was wrong with her newborn son, but her concerns were repeatedly dismissed. Days later, she learned he had suffere...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. What happens when nothing about the way you look has changed, but everything about the way you function has? In this episode of Rupture , Wendy Lurrie talks with Fallon Morey about invisible disability, the pressure to seem fine, and the exhausting labor of having to constantly explain, justify, and translate what others cannot see. Fallon...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. What happens when a traumatic brain injury changes your ability to trust your own brain? In this episode of Rupture , Wendy Lurrie sits down with Kim Lauersdorf to discuss the complex journey of recovery after TBI. They explore how trust evolves after brain injury. Trust in doctors, treatments, and eventually in yourself. Recovery often inv...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. What happens when your immune system turns on you. And the healthcare system is not built to catch you. In this episode of Rupture, Nina Scherenberg shares her experience living with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease that reshaped her body, identity, and daily life. She describes the flare that left her unable to sit upright. The long pat...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. Content Note: This episode contains discussion of self-harm, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), eating disorders, and related mental health challenges. If you are in the U.S., call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. If you are outside the U.S., please contact local crisis support services. What drives self-harm and eating...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. Traumatic brain injury can change everything. Not just how the brain functions, but how a person understands themselves, their limits, and their future. In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan , host Wendy Lurrie is joined by neuro-ophthalmologist Dr. Melody Merati for an honest, deeply human conversation about what TBI real...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. What happens when the systems designed to support people stop working? In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan , strategic HR executive Marlo Green joins the conversation to unpack why modern HR leadership is failing employees. And how it can be rebuilt. Marlo shares her journey into HR, the limits of policy-driven people op...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. Menopause is not just hot flashes. It is a full body and brain shift that collides with modern work, leadership expectations, and a culture that still treats the topic as taboo. Wendy Lurrie sits down with leadership coach and brand consultant Lauren Glazer to talk about the real workplace impact of perimenopause. They unpack why so many wo...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. Caregiving is often framed as an act of love. What is rarely acknowledged is the emotional load, financial strain, identity shift, and systemic failure that caregivers are forced to navigate every day. In this deeply personal episode, Wendy Weingart shares how her life abruptly changed when her husband faced severe health challenges. What b...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. Vision is how we move through the world. After a traumatic brain injury, that relationship can change in ways that are often invisible, misunderstood, or dismissed. In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan , Wendy Lurrie speaks with occupational therapist and vision rehabilitation specialist Kellianne Arnella about the comple...

Submit a dispatch. BestGuessistan wants to hear from you. In this episode of Rupture: The World of BestGuessistan , host Wendy Lurrie is joined by Kim Lauersdorf, founder of Cosmic Shift, for an intimate conversation about life after traumatic brain injury. This is not a story about quick recovery or inspirational transformation. It’s a conversation about rupture. About what happens when a brain i...