Bump In The Road

According to Statista, in 2020, 37.4% of lawyers the US are women. That's a far cry from 1980, when 92% of practicing lawyers in the United States were men, and many jobs weren't even open to women. How does one navigate this professional terrain? M.C. Sungaila talks about her path in the law and her podcast, The Portia Project. The Portia Project is an oral history of women in law. M.C. created i...

Bobbi Gibb is truly a Renaissance person. She is relentlessly curious. She is well versed in physics and law. And she is a stunning artist. In 1966, Bobbi became the first woman to to run the Boston Marathon. She had to sneak into the race (women weren't allowed) and she ran in her brother's bermuda shorts and a hoodie to disguise her sex. Women of the era were destined to marry and have children...

From frat parties to happy hours, alcohol is part of our culture and society. The 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and health found that 85.6% of people have drunk alcohol at some point and 69.5% drank in the past year. But a certain percentage of people cannot tolerate alcohol and they cannot quit. Jenny Wakefield is one of these people. Looking at Jenny today, it's hard to imagine her homeless,...

This is the finale to the saga of Wendy Wagner PhD's quest for wisdom and guidance. Wendy's journey was, in so many ways, Joseph Campbell's hero's journey. She sought answers to some of humanity's timeless questions. She faced obstacles and setbacks. And ultimately, on a quest to find timeless truth, she found the path to the answers she sought. She shares her wisdom in the second part of this pod...

If you ever thought that Indiana Jones was fiction, this story might just make you change your mind. This is the third installment of the ultimate summer adventure. And it's all true. It's the story of one PhD student on a quest for the meaning of life. Why are we here? What are we meant to do? Ageless questions for which each generation and each individual must seek their own answers. The next st...

Do you believe in serendipity? In this second part of the story of Wendy's quest, she takes off to Samoa, BoraBora, Easter Island and eventually lands in Santiago, Chile. In Chile things do not go as planned and Wendy finds herself alone in an isolated mountain town, except for one friend, an old book she finds in a tiny, cluttered bookstore. Why this book? Is it serendipity? And what might she le...

It is summer, and there is never a better time for a good story. This podcast is the type of story best told over a campfire, where the your senses are heightened, your imagination keen, and your edges of the night leave you susceptible to a different reality. This is the first of a four part series. It is the remarkable story of a spiritual quest for truth by a Phd psychology student. It's part R...

Shane Cooke is a well known chef who has worked in MIchelin two starred restaurants, as well as at the corporate level, overseeing 30-40 kitchens in the London area. In a quest for health, Shane left the hospitality business, and now he's a well known wellness coach. He's studied in Thailand as well as the UK, and brings a remarkable depth of wisdom and knowledge to his clients. This is a must lis...

Childhood abuse comes in many forms, but sexual abuse is perhaps the most heinous, and it's sadly very common. One out of ten children experience sexual abuse and some numbers suggest it may be as high as one in six for young boys. Yet there is very little written about this, particularly when it comes to men. Stephen Mills has written a detailed and moving story of his experiences. In his case, i...

One of Martha's favorite sayings is "do things afraid". And her book opens up with the perfect example as she climbs into the seat of an A-10 attack plane. It is a single seat plane and it was her first flight. There were no simulators and no one could teach her how to fly it. She simply had to do it. "Courage is not the absence of fear. It's choosing to do things afraid." From being the first wom...

Jo Taylor is a remarkable woman. At just 38 years old with two young children she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She'd later be diagnosed with metastatic disease. The median time of survival is 2-3 years. This was not the path a young mother would choose. But Jo poured herself into the breast cancer community and has made a difference for people globally. She founded ABCDiagnosis, a uk website...

Oliver Seligman is a man who is fun, funny and bright. He is at ease with himself. But his path to self acceptance and spiritual well-being has been challenging, to say the least. At seventeen, Oliver was diagnosed with type one bipolar. Since then he's navigated euphoric manias, suicidal depressions, psychoses and the world of psychiatric medication. Today he is an author, teacher, speaker and mo...

What might you learn if you were to travel without a home to go back to? Corporate executive Mark Philpott did just that. One rainy day in Amsterdam, he found himself deeply depressed. He realized his life was passing him by. Mark returned to his home base in Singapore where he quit his job, sold his possessions, and hit the road, without any itinerary or endpoint. Along the way, he had the time t...

Ken Jaques' health care advocacy was not planned. A diagnosis of crippling rheumatoid arthritis in 2008 exposed him to the medical system. And that exposure was an education. Ken is the first to point out that conventional medical care is part of the equation for health and that there are many options to creating your unique plan. Allopathic medicine, energy work, acupuncture and other modalities...

Pragito Dove was born in London. Her early childhood was difficult in a dysfunctional family. It caused her to shut down her heart and left her full of anger, fear and pain. When her son was born, she knew she had to heal and change the intergenerational paradigm she had inherited. The teachings of Osho, a spiritual leader in India, included a wide range of expressive meditation techniques that re...

"It's not that people are resistant to change. They just don't know how to move through the stages of change." -Savio Clemente And Savio helps cancer patients dig deep to assess their health and create the change they want. Join us for this far ranging discussion for creating your own path to health. Special thanks to CVSHealth for their support. #BumpInTheRoad

Gary Hensel is an accomplished business man, university professor, and a best selling, award winning author. When a disagnosis of severe Lyme disease brought his academic career to an end, he turned to his love of writing, teaching, and his deep sense of spirituality. What emerged were a series of books of profound insight on our human condition. Come meet this remarkable and insightful man. Speci...

A rare disease changed the lives of Art Estopinan and his wife Olga when they welcomed a baby boy into their world. Arturo, Jr. looked like any other sweet infant. He laughed, he cried, he grew. But it soon became apparent that something wasn't right. After much trial and error, Art Jr. would be diagnosed with TK2 or mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome, an exceedingly rare disease, which causes p...

"After my near death experience, my entire conditioned belief system...was blown wide open and shattered." -Cherie Aimee How does one move through experiences that shatter your beliefs and everything you know to be true? How doe one not get lost in the disbelief and disconnect? And what strengths emerge on the other side of these experiences? Join me for an incredible, soulful conversation. Read m...

The power of your mind is immense, according to Wendy Wagner Ph. D, a Psychologist, Hypnotherapist and Mindfulness Coach providing holistic therapy services in Taos, New Mexico. Wendy has been on a path of personal and spiritual inquiry for several decades in a quest to explore the power of your mind. In this episode, she shares some of her travels. BumpInTheRoad.us Special thanks to CVS Health fo...

Sustainability is a popular and growing field that attempts to integrate social science, environmental science and civil engineering. It's both an area of study and a way of life for Ashley Weisman who is the Executive Director of Greenlight Solutions, a 501(c)3. In this podcast, Ashley shares her mission and passion for making the world a better place. Special thanks to CVSHealth for their suppor...

What is identity? Is it in our things? In our self image? In our intelligence? What happens when that's wiped out? Ann Zuccardy always identified as being smart. But a slip in the shower in Germany in 2011 sent her headlong into a hard tile wall. And that misstep changed everything. She had a brain injury. What did she learn? And if she could rewrite her story, would she? Special thanks to CVSHeal...

A Down's syndrome baby changed Sue Robins' life in ways that she never could have imagined. Her son, Aaron, was born with an extra chromosome. That extra chromosome would cause her to re-think her entire value system and how she viewed the world,. In her book, Bird's Eye View she writes: "My baby boy was beautiful. He was the product of a second marriage for both of us, evidence that people can he...

Darryll is an ex-athlete, entrepreneur, pastor, a speaker and a suicide survivor. Through drug addiction and multiple suicide attempts, Darryll struggled with life until some professional help and an epitome turned him around: "I would rather be real and be rejected than be fake and accepted." Learn more at www. BumpInTheRoad.us and join as a Bump II member ($5/month) to hear part two of the conve...