At the Podium with Patrick Huey

Send us Fan Mail McCord Henry spent years building a successful career while privately fighting  battles that threatened to take everything from him. Raised in a conservative Christian household in North Carolina, McCord grew up surrounded by faith, family, and expectations. But beneath the surface, he was wrestling with questions of identity, belonging, and self-worth. As he entered adulthood, al...

Send us Fan Mail For many families around the world, conversations around mental health happen quietly — or not at all.  In this At the Podium episode, Broadway composer Zak Sandler reflects on growing up unaware that a bipolar condition ran through his family, and how shame and silence can sometimes delay understanding, healing, and acceptance.  This conversation is not simply the discussion arou...

Send us Fan Mail Former NFL fullback Chris Hetherington spent 11 years playing professional football, but this conversation is ultimately about much more than sports. In this episode of At the Podium, Chris reflects on discipline, masculinity, fatherhood, identity, and the difficult transition that comes after elite performance. From the physical toll of football and the realities of concussion cu...

Send us Fan Mail What if the life many men are chasing—success, intimacy, freedom—actually sits on the other side of healing?  In this episode of At the Podium , Patrick Huey sits down with Zarak Fatah , a transformational coach and former serial entrepreneur, for a candid conversation about masculinity, trauma, faith, and the work of healing.  Zarak reflects on growing up as the son of Pakistani...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when travel becomes more than destinations on a map, and instead becomes a reflection of our shared humanity? In this episode of At the Podium, Patrick Huey sits down with Cole Sjoholm to explore solo travel, self-discovery, and what it means to find belonging in a deeply interconnected world. After more than twenty years in banking and finance, Cole made an extraordi...

Send us Fan Mail In this landmark 100th episode of At the Podium , Patrick Huey sits down with Tembi Locke , New York Times bestselling author, actor, and producer, for a deeply personal conversation about love, loss, legacy, and what it takes to begin again. Following the success of her acclaimed memoir and Netflix series From Scratch , Tembi returns with her new memoir Someday, Now —an intimate,...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Q. Pugliese is the third-generation CEO of Circadia , a global skincare company built on science, education, and integrity. But before he is a leader, a formulator, or an educator, Michael is the father of two daughters—and much of the work he does today is shaped by the question of what he is building not just for an industry, but for them. In this conversation, Michael r...

Send us Fan Mail Actor, director, writer, and producer Tijuana Ricks joins At the Podium for a deeply reflective conversation about origin, representation, and what it means to take up space in a life that truly belongs to you. Known for her work across more than 100 episodes of television—including the Marvel Netflix universe ( Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist ), multiple seasons of Billions ,...

Send us Fan Mail In this deeply personal and unguarded conversation, NFL tackle Calvin Anderson reflects on the year his life completely fell apart — and the unexpected forces that ultimately saved him. After returning from a trip to Nigeria, Calvin contracted a life-threatening case of malaria, followed by a rare heart contusion that pulled him off the field and into a season of fear, uncertainty...

Send us Fan Mail Justin Wren is a big man —and not just in physical stature. When you meet him in person, he takes up space. With his professional athlete’s frame and long blond hair, you can’t miss him. He has presence. In his book Fight for the Forgotten , Justin writes unflinchingly about the intense bullying that shaped his childhood—a pain that sparked the fire that carried him into the world...

Send us Fan Mail Willie Mae Sharpe is a woman who has lived a big life — a life that has taken her to some of the most prestigious stages within the gospel and Christian broadcast worlds. Her improbable journey began in the shotgun house of her grandmother, the woman she was named after. There, as a young girl, Willie Mae learned the quiet power of service — watching her grandmother offer food and...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Litman — the founder of Aescape — has the mind of an explorer. In the world of spa and wellness, he and his team are charting new territories, challenging long-held beliefs about what a massage looks like, feels like, and how it’s delivered. With Aescape’s robotic massage solution, Eric is pursuing something truly extraordinary: the authentic human experience of care, connect...

Send us Fan Mail Derrick Young Jr. is a modern-day wellness warrior, advocate and pioneer committed to living a life of unrestrained excellence and impact. He emodies the principles of courage, citizenship and action that Theodore Roosevelt speaks about in his "Man in the Arena" statement. As the Founder and Executive Director of Leadership Brainery , Derrick and his team are creating pa...

Send us Fan Mail We break things. That is what we as humans do. We have an almost innate compulsion to systematically destroy what is around us, usually in the name of greed, access, revenge. Even in the “greatest story ever told,” there is Judas. Who for 30 pieces of silver betrayed a friend with a kiss, ended a ministry, and yet was the match that lit the flame for one of the greatest spiritual,...

Send us Fan Mail “To Every Mother Whose Child Only Knows Half the Story.” New York Times bestselling author Attica Locke’s newest novel Guide Me Home is the final installment in the trilogy of books that have followed the life and career of our hero Darren Mathews. A black Texas Ranger committed to bringing the guilty to justice no matter how high they may sit, whose world is an entanglement defin...

Send us Fan Mail The Forsaken. Quentin Vennie , Co-Founder of Equitea Co ., wrote a searing memoir, Strong in the Broken Places . A raw story of his life growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, MD where he faced food deserts, a complicated relationship with his father who was in and out of jail, and his own addiction and multiple suicide attempts. His unexpected path out of the darkness of his...

Send us Fan Mail Who are You Underneath it All? Yogi Aaron has lived the life of a disruptor and a warrior. From starting a nude yoga movement that was underground sensation in New York and Los angles, to surviving an accident on the Himalayan mountains that left him with a femur broken in two, to today challenging our firmly held beliefs about stretching and drawing our attention to the hazards h...

Send us Fan Mail Love the Flaws and Uncertainties of Life. There is theme that quickly emerges from my conversation with Seana Kofoed . If you want something in your life, you can’t sit around waiting for someone to recognize your worth. Go out and create it for yourself. And in the pursuit of creating that something that can sometimes be elusive, you can’t be afraid of failure. Because the failur...

Send us Fan Mail Art is Beautiful Even When it Depicts Ugliness and Strife. Kim Watson is an artist, photographer and an author. He views his work as having the potential to be a catalyst for change. In his newly released book and forthcoming documentary Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love and Understanding , Kim gives us an intimate view of what life is like for the homeless people living...

Send us Fan Mail Nick Prefontaine survived the unthinkable. A snowboarding accident at the age of 14 where he landed on his head, with only a pair of thick goggles protecting his skull as a he was flung down the mountain. In a coma for almost a month, even the doctors said the prognosis was grim. When he finally awoke, he had to learn to walk, talk, and even swallow again. How he survived and rebu...

Send us Fan Mail Never Let a Closed Door Keep You Out. Kate Miller has had a prolific career as an actress – from starring on Broadway with Carol Burnett in Moon Over Buffalo , to working the soap opera scene in New York on One Life to Live , to working opposite Tom Selleck in CBS’s Blue Bloods, to her latest role as Amanda Shaw in Hightown , Kate has done it all. Not bad for a woman I met in her...

Send us Fan Mail Live the Life You Want to Have. Be the Person You Want to Be. Robyn Vie-Carpenter-Brisco has a big name and has built a big life of many different existences. Author. Crystals and semi-precious stones expert. President of the Board of the History Museum in Baton Rouge. Self-proclaimed Goddess of Joy . Today, she is the founder of The Confidence Conference . A nonprofit organizatio...

Send us Fan Mail The Future of Wellness is Ugly. With the founding of Sanctum , Luuk Melisse has started a sound, dance and movement phenomenon that is being called a Nomadic Movement. At the core of the Sanctum experience is Luuk’s mission to help his followers (and himself) face head on those things that hinder our fullest expression of who we are: limiting self-doubt, the need for perfectionism...

Send us Fan Mail Getting Engaged in Your Life. Delia McLinden (founder of the lifesaving Archangel Animal Network and Vice President of the global skincare and body care brand Farmhouse Fresh ) poses a profound question for us – “When you take away your coping mechanisms. What then?” Her answer – “You realize there are a whole lot of other things [you have] to address.” For Delia it was consciousl...

Send us Fan Mail Mistakes. Triumphs. And Celebrations. I met John Adams in 1996 through one of my closest friends Toby Poser (Season 1, Episode 12 ATP) who would soon become his wife. John, at that time, was an ex-model, and a punk rocker fronting his band called Banana Fish that performed in bars around Manhattan with John sporting a white g-string (pun definitely intended) – talk about a man una...