The WTF Podcast

You already know something needs to change. You've probably known for a while. But you keep going back and forth, waiting for some kind of certainty that never comes, because the idea of choosing wrong feels like it could break everything. So you stay. You carry it. And the weight of that unmade decision starts to take more from you than the decision itself ever could. Hope Firsel knows that weigh...

Do you feel most valuable when someone needs you? Being the helper, fixer, or person everyone counts on can bring real purpose. It can also make it difficult to know where caring for others ends and your identity begins. After serving 19 years of a 32-year prison sentence, Jesse Crosson built a large social media following by sharing an honest look at incarceration, restorative justice, and second...

Have you ever experienced a setback that made you question whether you could trust yourself again? A broken promise, relapse, burnout, or difficult decision can leave you buried in shame and believing that all your progress has been lost. But beginning again doesn’t mean beginning from nothing. In this episode, Molly talks with Amberly Lago about rebuilding self-trust after a setback and finding y...

What if nothing is falling apart… but you still know something feels off? The funk doesn’t always look like a crisis. Sometimes you’re working, taking care of everyone, meeting deadlines, and doing all the things—and quietly carrying more than anyone realizes. And sometimes, it takes hearing someone else’s story before you start recognizing pieces of your own. As The WTF Podcast celebrates its one...

What do you do when something in your life doesn't feel right—but you keep wondering, What if I'm the problem? When you don't trust yourself, it's easy to second-guess what you're feeling. Is this just a hard season? Do I need to work on myself? Am I expecting too much? Or is something in my life actually telling me it's time for a change? In this episode of The WTF Podcast, my conversation with M...

What happens when you finally achieve the thing you thought would make you feel successful… and you still don’t feel like enough? Natasha Kostalas knows that cycle well. After pushing herself to the breaking point in her career, she found a new sense of confidence and purpose through fitness—only to discover that the same drive to prove herself had followed her into bodybuilding. In this episode,...

Have you ever sat across from a doctor and been told, “Everything looks normal,” when you know damn well you do not feel normal? Maybe you’re exhausted. You’re gaining weight even though you’re doing all the right things. Your brain feels foggy. Your hormones feel completely out of whack. Or maybe you just have this gut feeling that something is wrong—but because your labs fall within the “normal”...

What do you do when life changes in an instant? A phone call. A conversation. A betrayal. A diagnosis. One unexpected moment... and suddenly everything you thought you knew feels uncertain. In this episode, I share one of the most personal stories I've told on the podcast—not because the details of my story are the point, but because every one of us will have moments that divide our lives into "be...

He wrote the best-selling book on anxiety. A few years later, it came back — and this time, it didn't even need a reason. Brian Sachetta spent a decade battling social anxiety, generalized anxiety, and OCD before turning what he learned into the Get Out of Your Head book series, helping other people manage theirs. Then, a few years after his first book came out, he got blindsided — nerve pain, a t...

She spent 13 years believing that if she loved harder, communicated better, or sacrificed a little more, things would finally change. Instead, she slowly lost herself. In this powerful conversation, Mae Novak shares what it was really like living inside a narcissistic marriage—the love bombing, the cycles of anger and apology, the self-doubt, and the hope that kept her believing the next time woul...

Quitting her corporate career was supposed to fix everything. It didn't. Susie Fishleder spent 15 years crushing it in corporate sales — great money, three kids, every box checked — until a full-body panic sent her running out of her office and onto a park bench, sobbing, while a homeless man stopped to tell her it would be okay. She thought stepping back from her career and moving her family to I...

What if you just... stopped? Not for a weekend. For as long as it takes. On purpose. That's the adult gap year — and it's exactly what Suzanne Roske did after nearly 20 years climbing the corporate ladder (she made partner at PwC along the way), when she found herself screaming at her son over a firetruck, looking in a bathroom mirror, and not recognizing the person staring back. What she did next...

She spent 32 years finding other people's secrets. She had no idea the biggest one was her own. Beth Jones built a career as a forensic accountant — uncovering fraud, corruption, and the buried truths that powerful people desperately wanted hidden. She was, by every measure, an expert at finding what didn't want to be found. But one hypnotherapy session she walked into hoping to just "connect with...

Apples. Almonds. Bananas. Beef. Eggs. All grains. Dairy. Soy. Corn. Pork. And that's just the beginning. Nina Blake's list of foods she can't eat is two decades in the making — and it started with a doctor telling a then-31-year-old that the more grains and dairy she ate, the more weight she'd gain. From that first appointment, Nina was on a mission: figure out how to eat real food again, without...

High school graduation day should feel like a milestone. And for most families, it does. But for families of neurodivergent young adults, graduation day often feels like a cliff — because the structure, the support, and the services all stop. And what's on the other side is mostly empty space. Nicole Rolon-Caro spent 12 years inside the special education system, watching students with ADHD, execut...

He lost 26.5% of his body weight in 19 days. His doctor told him to quit. He went for gold anyway. After being medically discharged from the British Army following 20+ years of service, David Jarvis was already rebuilding from scratch — new career, new city, new identity — when he was selected for the Invictus Games. Four months before competition, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetic ketoacidosi...

What happens when you've done years of therapy, talked it through a thousand times, built a whole life around moving forward — and your body still won't let you? Stacey Miller carried grief for 25 years before she discovered what was actually keeping her stuck. What followed her healing is something she never could have predicted. In this episode, Stacey shares: Why years of traditional therapy co...

You know the feeling. It's late. You're fried. You pick up your phone just to check out for a minute — and suddenly it's been an hour. We've all been there. Most of the time it leads nowhere. But every once in a while, the scroll leads you straight out of the funk. That's exactly what happened to this week's guest. What started as a desperate attempt to decompress during one of the most overwhelmi...

Joey Chandler woke up one morning in January 2022 with nothing left. Divorce papers signed. Business struggling. Living alone for the first time in 20 years. And he was the coach — the one helping everyone else find clarity. In this conversation, Joey walks us through the surprisingly simple shift that pulled him out of burnout in about three months. No meditation retreat. No new morning routine....

In this episode of the WTF Podcast, Ciara Waterfield shares the deeply personal story of how years of people-pleasing, toxic relationships, and slowly abandoning herself eventually led to chronic anxiety, intrusive thoughts, and a complete loss of identity. From the outside, everything looked fine. But internally, she was unraveling. What started as anxiety eventually became a wake-up call—forcing...

What if the way you’re breathing is quietly keeping your nervous system stuck in stress? In this Expert Series episode, Molly sits down with Eileen McDonald — creator of the BodyCue IQ™ system and a specialist in breathing behavior and nervous system regulation — to unpack the surprising connection between breath, stress, emotions, and the “funk” so many of us find ourselves stuck in. Together, th...

We don’t usually question success when everything looks good on the outside. You’re showing up. You’re doing the work. You’re checking all the boxes. But what happens when all of it is built on proving your worth? In this episode, I sit down with Spencer Jones, founder of Jonesin’ For, to talk about what it really looks like when your drive to succeed is fueled by people-pleasing, validation, and...

We’ve been told for years that alcohol is the problem. But what if that’s not actually what’s driving addiction? In this episode, addiction expert Dr. Robb Kelly — who has helped over 11,000 people recover — shares a perspective that completely challenges the way most of us think about addiction. And before we even get there… his story. From losing everything to addiction to a life-changing moment...

What do you do when you know something works… but you’re not allowed to do it? In this episode of the WTF Podcast, Molly sits down with Debbie Pietruszka, a retired occupational therapist who spent over 40 years working inside the traditional medical system—only to find herself in a frustrating in-between space. Because some of the approaches that were actually helping her patients the most… weren...

You can build the business. Make the money. Create the success you’ve always dreamed of. And still find yourself getting in your own way. In this episode, I sit down with entrepreneur, business strategist, and host of the Big D Podcast, Dan Sachkowsky, for a conversation that goes way beyond business. We talk about something most high achievers don’t even realize they’re caught in — the validation...