The Missing Peace

It's a bittersweet one: Danielle Griffiths and Brooke Benevento wrap up season one of The Missing Peace with a game plan for the last two months of the year. Instead of waiting for January and New Year's resolutions, they make the case for starting now, so that when the new year comes, you're already in stride. Looking back on the season, they agree the recurring theme has been awar...

Brooke is out this week after some tech trouble in Tennessee, but the show must go on. Danielle Griffiths sits down with Dr. Donya Ball, a friend she's known since middle school, to talk about something that feels more timely than ever with the elections just around the corner: how to disagree without dividing. Donya spent 25 years in K-12 public education, from instructional aide all the way...

With the midterm elections just a couple of weeks away, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths take on a big one: psyops, or psychological operations, and the everyday ways our thinking gets shaped by what we let into our minds. Danielle first learned about brainwashing as a little girl, watching Marlena fall under Stefano's spell on Days of Our Lives with her Nana. Today she walks through h...

"You're different from everyone else." It sounds like the start of something special, and sometimes it is. But Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths say it can also be the very first sign that you've walked into a relationship with a narcissist. This episode started with Taylor Swift's new song "Patient Zero," which Brooke heard as a song about narcissism and t...

"Are you effing kidding me?" That's what Dr. Pamela Steele was thinking while she sat there politely smiling, because a man she'd just met for a drink and an appetizer had invited her to a nudist colony in France. Danielle Griffiths and Brooke Benevento welcome Pamela back for part two, and the tone shifts from grief to the other half of her book, Nights of Hunger: A Cocktail o...

"I will ask you to come and stand with me in my brother's driveway in Byron Bay, Australia." It's his 67th birthday, and instead of cake, Dr. Pamela Steele is waiting for the coroner to bring out his body. Her father had died two years earlier, her mother eleven months before. With her brother gone, she had lost her entire family of origin. Then, six years ago, on a trip to the...

"When I think of this powerful state, I know this is going to sound kind of silly, but it makes me think of being a child." Danielle Griffiths opens on elementary school — wanting to be an astronaut, wanting to be a cowgirl, and not a smidgen of doubt that it would happen. Which begs the question she and Brooke Benevento spend this episode on: how did we get so far away from that? Brooke...

"In my superwoman mind, I don't need help. I can do everything myself." That's Danielle Griffiths opening this one, and the episode came straight out of a conversation she and Brooke Benevento had off-mic a couple of weeks ago — Danielle admitting she'd been putting her own goals on hold because she felt responsible for everyone in her orbit. Family, friends, co-workers, e...

"Because somebody told me that I was depressed, I bought into it, I believed it." This one came straight from the inbox — a listener wrote in asking Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths to talk about health anxiety and OCD, and what came out of it is an honest conversation about how much of what we're carrying started as something somebody else handed us. Brooke opens with her ow...

"It really begs the question — do we have a health care system, or do we have a sick care system?" Danielle Griffiths and Brooke Benevento open with a number that stops the conversation cold: American adult obesity has gone from roughly 3–4% to over 40% as of 2023, according to the CDC. Then they go looking for how we got here. Danielle takes the history — the 1910 Flexner Report, funded...

"You are your algorithm. You are the one that has built it." The average American adult spends 2.4 hours a day scrolling — 17 hours a week, nearly 900 hours a year, the equivalent of 37 full days. Danielle Griffiths and Brooke Benevento open with that number and then ask the harder question: if you got those 37 days back, what would you build with them? Danielle starts with the history —...

"If you do not believe in yourself, then you will sabotage yourself over and over and over again." Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths take on the question they both get asked constantly: I'm doing the work, so why isn't anything showing up? Brooke walks through the specific ways people block their own manifestations, and Danielle does something brave with it — she puts her...

"At the end of the day, no one owes you anything. Your parents don't even owe you anything." A listener asked Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths to take on entitlement — so they did, and they start by turning the mirror around. Every generation says the next one is entitled. But what is entitlement, actually? Danielle opens with the working definition — the formal right to a be...

Hats back on. In Part 2, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths pick up right where they left off — rapid-firing through the "conspiracy pyramid," the competing versions of the Great Reset, and why asking questions keeps getting treated like a crime. Danielle walks through globalism versus nationhood, the World Economic Forum's "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy...

Tinfoil hats on! Due to overwhelming listener requests, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths dive headfirst into the world of conspiracy theories — but not the way you might expect. This isn't about proving or disproving anything. It's about examining why we react so strongly when someone dares to ask questions. Danielle traces the origin of the term "conspiracy theorist" fr...

Money is the number one source of stress for most people — so why aren't we taught how to manage it? In this episode, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths tackle financial literacy head-on, breaking down why so many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and what you can do to change your financial future. Danielle shares eye-opening stats (66% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, le...

What really makes a marriage last? In this episode, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths dive into the heart of what makes a strong, healthy marriage — and it starts long before you say "I do." From the history of marriage (dating back to 2350 B.C.) to the modern-day partnership it's become, the hosts explore how marriage has evolved from a contractual arrangement into something...

Ready to call in the relationship you've always wanted? In this episode, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths pick up where they left off in their dating series and dive into how to truly attract the love of your life — not by chasing, but by becoming. Brooke introduces her "Boomerang Method" — the idea that your thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are constantly being sent out into...

What does it really take to find lasting love? In this episode, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths dive into the world of dating — past, present, and the lessons that changed everything for them. Danielle takes us through the fascinating history of dating, from 17th-century matchmakers and the origins of the word "date" in 1896 to the rise of the automobile, drive-in movies, and cru...

What happens when the state you grew up in no longer feels like home? In this episode, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths have an honest, no-holds-barred conversation about what's been happening in California — and why so many people are leaving. From pandemic-era lockdowns and small business shutdowns to a $126 billion high-speed rail that's never laid a single foot of track, Danie...

Do you ever feel like you're just going through the motions — busy but not fulfilled, successful on paper but empty inside? In this episode, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths break down the concept of drifting from Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil — and why 98% of people may be doing it without realizing. They get vulnerable about their own experiences with drifting, explore ho...

Why does calm feel boring? Why does silence make you uncomfortable? In this episode, Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths dig into one of the most overlooked addictions in the world: drama . Brooke explains how an unpredictable childhood wires your inner guidance system to crave chaos — and why six out of ten people may be hooked without even knowing it. They explore how drama functions like a...

Have you ever been this close to a breakthrough — and then stopped? Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths tackle a topic almost nobody talks about: the fear of success . It even has a clinical name — Achievemephobia — and it may be the invisible force keeping you stuck. Danielle gets vulnerable about "the room" — an office-turned-dumping-ground that's become an 18-month metaphor f...

Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths are back with Part 2 of their deep dive into manifestation and co-creating with God. If Part 1 laid the foundation, this episode brings it home with practical tools, powerful scripture, and a Biblical story that will change how you think about faith forever. Brooke answers the most common questions she gets about manifestation — why some people seem to manif...

Brooke Benevento and Danielle Griffiths tackle one of the most misunderstood topics in personal growth: manifestation . Is it woo-woo? Is it against religious teachings? Or is it actually rooted in something much deeper? In Part 1 of this two-part series, Brooke and Danielle break down what manifestation really means — not wishful thinking or crossing your fingers, but disciplining your thoughts,...