Glow For Hope: Sparking Conversation on Mental Health

⚠️ CONTENT ADVISORY This episode includes candid discussion of grief, depression, hopelessness and suicidal thoughts. For 16 years, Dave Raymond's job was to make people happy as the original Phillie Phanatic. But behind the costume, Dave would eventually face grief, the collapse of his marriage and a period of hopelessness when he began experiencing suicidal thoughts. Then something unexpected ha...

# Mariah Sheridan Runions: When Loving Someone Isn’t Enough to Save Them Growing up surrounded by mental illness taught Mariah Sheridan Runions how to survive, adapt and take care of other people. It took much longer to learn that loving someone does not make you responsible for saving them — and that choosing yourself is not something you need to feel guilty for. **Guest:** Mariah Sheridan Runion...

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...

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...

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...

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, Executi...

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 fin...

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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,...

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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 peopl...

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...

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Matt Benson: Mental Health, Self-Worth, and Pressure for Student-Athletes When performance becomes identity, pressure builds — and silence can take a toll Host: Kelly Poelker Guest: Matt Benson Category: Mental Health · Student-Athletes · Coaching & Parenting Sports are often praised for building discipline, toughness, and resilience. And while that can be true, what often goes unspoken is what ha...

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