No One Is Normal

There’s an old saying that excuses are like assholes and everyone has one. I am not here to beat anyone up for having them. I am here to be honest about what it cost me when excuses stopped being occasional and started becoming my default setting. For a long time, I did not just make excuses. I collected them. I polished them. I built whole stories around them. They were armor when I felt insecure...

In this episode of No One Is Normal , Brad sits down with Peter Gunn — poet, author, musician, U.S. Air Force veteran, and lifelong creative — for a wide-ranging conversation about identity, discipline, creativity, and purpose. Peter shares his life story through many roles he has lived over time, including military service, bodybuilding, fatherhood, poetry, and music. He reflects on a near-death...

Belonging is one of those things I did not realize I was starving for until I finally got a taste of it. You can be surrounded by people and still feel completely alone, or you can be with one person who really gets you and feel entirely at home. This episode is about that difference. In “Finding Your Tribe,” I talk about how easy it is to confuse a crowd for community, especially when addiction o...

Transition doesn’t always arrive as a breaking point. Sometimes it shows up quietly, in the space where old structure no longer fits and new meaning hasn’t fully formed yet. In this episode, Brad sits down with Ryan Reichert, a former U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, coach, and speaker, to talk about sobriety, faith, discipline, and rebuilding a life after long-held systems fall away. Ryan shares his...

This is not a lecture about drugs. This is about patterns. In this episode, I go underneath my chapter Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes . I grew up in survival mode, watching my mom grind to keep us afloat. That shaped how I saw myself and left that quiet question on loop: Am I ever going to measure up. That gap did not stay empty. I tried to fill it with curiosity, bravado, and bad decisions....

In this episode of No One Is Normal , I sit down with Karen Peters for a raw and deeply human conversation about what happens when a life that looks perfect from the outside collapses in full public view. Karen shares her experience navigating a public scandal involving her ex-husband’s SA accusations, an event that shattered her family’s sense of safety and identity overnight. She talks openly ab...

Relationships look simple on paper. Love someone, build a life, roll credits. Real life is two flawed people with old wounds, busy schedules, stress, and the daily grind of dishes, work, and emotional labor. In this episode, I get honest about what happens after the honeymoon phase, when effort stops being mutual and appreciation turns into expectation. I share what I learned from my own relations...

Welcome to the very first episode of No One Is Normal . This show exists for anyone who’s ever felt out of place, misunderstood, mislabeled, or judged for the way their story unfolded. This is the space where people like us finally get to breathe, talk, and be real without apologizing for the roads we’ve had to walk. In this episode, I’m introducing the mission behind the show and why this whole p...