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Send us Fan Mail The heading for this episode is just the beginning of this amazing and inspirational story. Jean Marie Keevins discusses her positive attitude to something that could have completely  destroyed her career and her life in general. The night was Xmas Eve, when she badly broke her Knee Cap on the stairs to the subway in New York. Jean Marie remembers the night that would change her l...

Send us Fan Mail This is the after thoughts section for the previous episode, Sam's Story, if you missed it, go back and join us here afterwards. Sam is amazing, and the fact that he has taken his 'muddled brain' and made sense of it, is a wonderful thing.  We know that there are millions of you out there struggling with Mental Health, and in Sam's case, crippling anxiety. Luke...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks EXPERT Edition - Sam Led was born with a neurodiverse brain (see below for definition). In other words he was born with a brain that just works differently. After being diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, GAD by well meaning mental health professionals, he thought he needed fixing. As a child he was placed in a 'Slow Learner' classroom that even had a sign on the doo...

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Kyle discuss the previous episode, Tarah's Story, and we commend Tarah's bravery for coming on and telling her story. What an emotional and thoroughly raw conversation. We started this Podcast to bring attention to people's life changing experiences, and to hear how our guests made it trough, sometimes against extraordinary odd. You do not need to suffer al...

Send us Fan Mail In one of the most emotional episodes we have had to date, Tarah tells us about her harrowing and traumatic childhood growing up with her drug addicted mother. She tells us about her heartbreaking decision  to leave the family house at 12 years old, and give herself up for foster care, which is the legal age in Canada. She had to leave her little brother behind to save herself, an...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine having to flee your country because you fear for your life. This was just the beginning of Soodabeh's amazing struggle. Luke and Kyle discuss resilience and ponder what it means to hep people out, in even the smallest of ways. Just a little gesture can change someone's life, and give them hope and a reason to live. This was a great episode. Thank you to all our l...

Send us Fan Mail Soodabeh Mokry, fled Iran as a 30 year old woman, in the early 1990's, after years of oppression by the then Iranian government. At the age of 19, as an activist, she had been arrested and beaten into a coma, narrowly escaping death. In this amazing episode, Soodabeh talks about her escape from Iran to what she hoped would be freedom in America. Arriving in the US with nothin...

Send us Fan Mail We can only imagine that moment when we are told, 'I'm sorry, you have Cancer!' Life can become so fragile in an instant. In this After Thoughts episode, Luke and Kyle discuss the previous story, in which Nicola described her journey from Cancer diagnosis, to her life today, 12 years on. She lives with her cancer, and more importantly she lives away from traditional...

Send us Fan Mail 'I am afraid you have Cancer, and a 65% chance of making another 5 years'. These are the words that Nicola Corcoran heard, as a mother of two, over a decade ago. In this mesmerizing episode, we hear how Nicola rejected traditional medicine, including Chemo and Radiation, and changed the way she lived in order for her to succeed and continue living a life beyond her wilde...

Send us Fan Mail Just little old Luke for this one, chatting to you lot, all our lovely listeners!! Question: Why do we stay in abusive relationships? We would think it would be so easy to see the abuse, and leave, but it's really not that simple. Often people outside the relationship can see it clear as daylight, but those in the relationship either can't see it, don't want to see...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Candice Smiley from 'Create The Ripple' Podcast joins us for an unfalteringly real and honest episode about love, abuse, and mistrust in her relationships, and how she finally banished her demons and started to live her life on her terms! In her late teens, Candice was repeatedly sexually abused in a relationship with a man for 2 x years. She found the strengt...

Send us Fan Mail This is the After Thoughts section for the previous episode, Tom's Story.. Luke and Kyle like to have a chat about what we have just heard, and join up some dots. This weeks episode involved 2 x very different near death experiences.. and our guest Tom said that these moments have really shaped his perspective on life. The most amazing thing was how he described the eerie sil...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Tom Teller comes on to discuss his two experiences of near death, and what those moments taught him, and how they have affected the way he lives his life. We hear from Tom firstly about his Motorcycle accident, from the moment of impact to the recovery, and everything in between. Its a wonderfully raw and heart-stopping story. Next, and just a couple of years later,  we...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to another 'After Thoughts' section where Luke and Kyle unpack the previous episode 'Niki's Story'. This was a really tough one to get through, but we hope that people hear Niki's story in full, and really hear that she is OK today. Despite all the traumas and all of the pain she went through, she continues to grow and thrive in her life. We h...

Send us Fan Mail In one of the most raw, honest and powerful episodes yet, Niki Sibera tells us about her harrowing childhood as she witnessed her father use physical violence against her mother on a regular basis. She realized that if she intervened, he would stop. But it would continue to happen until her and her mother finally escaped. The story gets even more traumatic, when her mother dies of...

Send us Fan Mail This is the After Thoughts section for the previous episode. If you missed it, go back!! We discuss Lindsay's story of how she came to have her leg amputated and the freedom and power she has felt since. We also discuss trauma in general, and how all trauma is relative and relevant, and is valid no matter how small you think it is. Thank you Lindsay! Links for Lindsay: Insta:...

Send us Fan Mail Buckle up for this one, its a really amazing, and extraordinary story of courage, will power, and total inspiration. Lindsay had a very rare underlying illness, CMT Disease, that meant she had weakened sensations in her feet, and so she couldn't feel the pain of an infection caused by a nail she had stepped on, one day while walking. Over many weeks, she became very ill, and...

Send us Fan Mail If you haven't listened to the previous episode, 'Aneesa's Story', go back and take a listen before you join us here, it'll make a lot more sense! This is the After Thoughts section in which Kyle and Luke discuss what a wonderful and inspirational story Aneesa brought to the show. To start life that way, to be given the slimmest of chances of making it out...

Send us Fan Mail Simply astonishing this one. Born is South Africa and now living in Cape Town, Aneesa tells us her amazing story about being 'born from sin' (through prostitution) and given up by her mother as a baby. As a toddler she was living in a house with prostitutes, drug dealers, and gang members with a number of different people looking after her. She of course, never knew her...

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Kyle reflect on the previous episode, David's story, and we tread carefully as we discuss the delicate topic of abusive relationships. David's bravery to come on the show and tell us about the world he lived in and what it did to him, is commendable to say the least. It serves as a reminder to all of us, that we can be the masters of our own destiny. If you are...

Send us Fan Mail This story is beyond inspiring, David was in an abusive relationship with a woman who would physically harm him. He was over-weight, and he smoked  hundreds of cigarettes a week. To add to all of this, he had children who were in the middle of this abusive relationship (thankfully not physically harmed) and his sister was terminally ill with Cancer.  On this podcast, we discuss tr...

Send us Fan Mail Your hosts, Luke and Kyle, discuss Tabatha's resilience and light, after such a scary upbringing. If you didn't listen to the previous episode, you should, because thats what we are discussing, and it will make a lot more sense! (hopefully!). Our podcast focuses on coming through trauma, and dealing with mental health and ptsd which is often as a direct result if some of...

Send us Fan Mail This is an amazing and mesmerizing episode. Tabitha was born into a 'cult' and realized into her teen years that she needed to get out. As with many 'cults' she was frozen out when she left, and with no support system, she needed to fend for herself. Her parents remained, which made things even harder for her. Once free of the chains, she struggled with mental...

Send us Fan Mail Kyle is back for this 'after thoughts' section, where we discuss the previous episode, Adam's Story. If you didn't listen to it, go back and have a listen! Adam went through alcohol addiction, recovery, love, heartbreak, and then the big one, a one in five million disease that rendered him totally paralyzed. Luke and Kyle discuss the strength and resilience Ada...

Send us Fan Mail This one is utterly amazing and simply terrifying all at once! Adam begins this story telling us of the total heartbreak he went through when the love of his life died suddenly of a heart attack, completely out of the blue. As Adam slowly came to terms with this loss, he decided to fulfill a life long dream and move from the US, to London, and began packing up his things ready for...