The Thought Atlas Podcast

What happens when the bond between a dog and its human becomes the foundation for a business? Courtney Honda, President of PUPTQE USA Corporation and co-founder of PUPTQE, shares how her dog Champ’s medical crisis in 2022 inspired her and her husband, Slava, to create something centered on the connection between people and their dogs. What began as an online store became a physical space where dog...

Jessica Daniel built a million-dollar preschool business from her living room, eventually opening a school that earned $1 million in its first year. But when her daughter was born with Tetralogy of Fallot and required open-heart surgery, Jessica faced a decision that forced her to reconsider what success meant. In this conversation, Jessica talks openly about building her business, selling it to f...

What if the circumstances we spend our lives trying to avoid are actually part of what helps us grow? Dr. Matthew Kutz is an award-winning author, educator, researcher, and speaker with nearly 30 years as a professor and a PhD in global leadership. His work explores global and entrepreneurial leadership, contextual intelligence, personal development, and what he calls “3D thinking.” In this conver...

What if the circumstances we spend our lives trying to avoid are actually part of what helps us grow? Dr. Matthew Kutz is an award-winning author, educator, researcher, and speaker with nearly 30 years as a professor and a PhD in global leadership. His work explores global and entrepreneurial leadership, contextual intelligence, personal development, and what he calls “3D thinking.” In this conver...

What happens to your worldview when you stop experiencing the world through headlines and start experiencing it firsthand? Craig D. Forrest has spent decades traveling the world as an award-winning TV director and documentary filmmaker, working across more than 160 countries and encountering cultures, conflict, faith, poverty, resilience, and everyday human life. In this conversation, Craig shares...

How much of the life you are living is actually yours—and how much was shaped by family, culture, relationships, expectations, and the identities you adopted along the way? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Samantha Kane, founder of Roots Wings Wellness and a certified holistic life coach, joins us for a conversation about authenticity, self-mastery, conscious living, and the process of reconnecti...

What if the behavior you’ve been judging is actually a brain difference you’ve never understood? In this episode of Thought Atlas, I’m joined by Judy R-M, a licensed marriage and family therapist, ADHD coach, parent coach, and speaker who has spent more than 14 years working with neurodiverse individuals, couples, parents, and families. Judy’s understanding of ADHD is both professional and deeply...

What if the place where you were born doesn’t have to determine the limits of your future? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Yoli Chisholm explores the idea of the “borderless self” and what happens when we begin to see mobility not simply as relocation, but as a way of pursuing opportunity, career growth, freedom, and a better life. Yoli shares her own story of growing up across borders. Born in...

What if creativity isn’t a special talent reserved for artists, but something already present in every human being? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Rick Sorenson—artist, educator, author, and lifelong student of creativity—explores what creativity means, where it comes from, and why so many adults eventually convince themselves that they aren’t creative. Rick shares the story of discovering draw...

What happens to trust when technology begins handling transactions that once depended on centralized institutions? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Eric L. Guthrie, an attorney, blockchain educator, author, and speaker, explores blockchain technology through one of the oldest foundations of functioning societies: trust. Eric shares how he discovered Bitcoin in 2016 and subsequently spent three da...

What happens when the life you were taught to want no longer feels like the life you want to live? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Vanita Prisha shares how growing up in Taiwan, living in Ghana, becoming a mother, building a business, and eventually closing that business shaped the way she thinks about choice, identity, failure, and personal growth. Vanita describes herself as someone who enjoys...

What happens when the life you were taught to want no longer feels like the life you want to live? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Vanita Prisha shares how growing up in Taiwan, living in Ghana, becoming a mother, building a business, and eventually closing that business shaped the way she thinks about choice, identity, failure, and personal growth. Vanita describes herself as someone who enjoys...

What if you are not broken, but simply becoming? When achievement, expectations, and other people’s definitions no longer answer the question “Who am I?”, a life transition can become an invitation to realignment. Host **Blessed** speaks with **Randy Bishop**, author, speaker, life coach, and creator of the **RE Method**, about navigating identity, midlife change, purpose, and personal growth with...

What if you are not broken, but simply becoming? When achievement, expectations, and other people’s definitions no longer answer the question “Who am I?”, a life transition can become an invitation to realignment. Host **Blessed** speaks with **Randy Bishop**, author, speaker, life coach, and creator of the **RE Method**, about navigating identity, midlife change, purpose, and personal growth with...

What if better energy, mood, and mental clarity begin with something most people never think to track: their gut? Michelle Heberling explains why modern diets may be starving the microbes that help your body and mind function at their best. A farm girl turned gut health educator, Michelle shares how illness, depression, processed food, and over-sterilization led her to rediscover fermentation as a...

What if better energy, mood, and mental clarity begin with something most people never think to track: their gut? Michelle Heberling explains why modern diets may be starving the microbes that help your body and mind function at their best. A farm girl turned gut health educator, Michelle shares how illness, depression, processed food, and over-sterilization led her to rediscover fermentation as a...

What if better energy, mood, and mental clarity begin with something most people never think to track: their gut? Michelle Heberling explains why modern diets may be starving the microbes that help your body and mind function at their best. A farm girl turned gut health educator, Michelle shares how illness, depression, processed food, and over-sterilization led her to rediscover fermentation as a...

What separates people who keep moving forward from those who stop when things become difficult? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Dr. Tommy Rhee shares a wide-ranging perspective shaped by his experiences in the military, sports medicine, business, entrepreneurship, and regenerative medicine. Rhee describes leadership as something developed through action rather than simply claimed. In his view, p...

What separates people who keep moving forward from those who stop when things become difficult? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Dr. Tommy Rhee shares a wide-ranging perspective shaped by his experiences in the military, sports medicine, business, entrepreneurship, and regenerative medicine. Rhee describes leadership as something developed through action rather than simply claimed. In his view, p...

What happens when a life that looks successful from the outside no longer feels sustainable on the inside? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Stephen McConnell reflects on more than three decades in high-pressure corporate environments, including around 20 years in manufacturing, and the personal struggles that eventually forced him to look more closely at his identity, behavior, and emotional life...

What happens when a life that looks successful from the outside no longer feels sustainable on the inside? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Stephen McConnell reflects on more than three decades in high-pressure corporate environments, including around 20 years in manufacturing, and the personal struggles that eventually forced him to look more closely at his identity, behavior, and emotional life...

How much of who we are is truly our own, and how much comes from the culture, society, and expectations we grow up with? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Damien Dubose explores individuality, psychology, emotional intelligence, purpose, fear, and the process of becoming more intentional about how we live. Damien describes himself as a financial professional whose interest in psychology and philos...

How much of who we are is truly our own, and how much comes from the culture, society, and expectations we grow up with? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Damien Dubose explores individuality, psychology, emotional intelligence, purpose, fear, and the process of becoming more intentional about how we live. Damien describes himself as a financial professional whose interest in psychology and philos...

What if the way we understand health changes when we stop looking only at symptoms? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Dr. Dean Howell, a naturopathic doctor and developer of Neurocranial Restructuring (NCR), discusses his decades of clinical experience and his approach to what he describes as structural foundations of health. Howell shares his personal history with chronic illness, his decision to...

What if the way we understand health changes when we stop looking only at symptoms? In this episode of Thought Atlas, Dr. Dean Howell, a naturopathic doctor and developer of Neurocranial Restructuring (NCR), discusses his decades of clinical experience and his approach to what he describes as structural foundations of health. Howell shares his personal history with chronic illness, his decision to...