Get Real With Robin!

Co-Hosts Kirk Nurmi and Jeff Trudgian Stress. It can make you sick. It can kill you. It can cause you to do things you wouldn't normally do. Sometimes the pressures we face in life can cause so much stress and damage to not only ourselves but to those in our lives. Join us as we have a real and raw conversation about stress, the things we can do to help ourselves live a less stressful life and to...

Co-Hosts Kirk Nurmi and Darren Burch On average, there are over a half a million victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States. 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men have been raped at some time in their lives. That’s just the cases that are reported and in the US. So many go unreported. And what about the children under 12, who are sexually assaulted, molested, raised...

Co-Hosts: Kirk Nurmi, Holly and Kenzie of the Crimeaholics Podcast OJ Simpson and the trial of the century. Most of us remember exactly where we were when that verdict was read. We were glued to the TV set as if it involved one of our own family members. Many of us followed the trial from gavel-to-gavel and were captivated by the story unfolding. Then there are those other cases that captured our...

Co-Host Kirk Nurmi Men are taught that they shouldn't express their feelings and to keep things to themselves. Why? They're entitled to express their feelings just as women are. Join us as we have a candid discussion about men, their feelings, and why we should listen to what they have to say.

Things happen in life that we have no control over. But what we do have control over is how we deal with them. We can let what happened to us destroy us and keep us stuck in the victim mentality or we can take back our life, confront what's happened, work on healing ourselves and then find a way to make the best life possible for ourselves. Co-Host Tiffany Armstrong Tiffany Armstrong is a survivor...

We are taught not to quit when quitting might be the best thing for our mental health. Co-Host Kirk Nurmi

Life is all about the choices we make. We all make mistakes and sometimes those mistakes have consequences that force us to take a hard look at ourselves. We are not our mistakes and we can change our lives for the better. We have the ability to change the direction we are headed in just by making a different choice. Co-Host Michael Hale Michael Hale made a bad decision that landed him in prison a...

Co-Host Bob Jenkins Do you believe in life after death? Do you believe in ghosts or spirits? Many don't believe that life after death exists because they can’t actually see it for themselves but think about this…we can’t see the wind until it blows through the trees, so just because we can’t see something, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Join us as we have a fun and insightful chat about ghosts, sp...

The traumatic events that we go through in life can take their toll on us physically, emotionally and mentally. Research has shown that stress, trauma and repressed emotions are capable of causing persistent real pain and other physical symptoms, along with affecting our mental health. There is no one-size-fits-all way of dealing with our traumas in order to find our way to healing. Some of the mo...

Co-Host Kirk Nurmi Is it child pornography or a very risqué coming of age film? It's time to have a REAL conversation about the documentary CUTIES and the over sexualization of young children. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen things like this…remember Jon Benet the child beauty queen or the reality TV series Dance Mom’s? These young girls were made to look so much older and as in the dance sho...

There are those moments in history where something major happens and we always remember where we were at that precise moment. For all of us 19 years ago, it was September 11, 2001. In total that day, 2,977 people lost their lives and over 25,000 were injured, with many more health related issues and deaths being reported through the years from those who survived the initial attacks and those who w...

Today, more than a quarter of the world’s slaves are children. These children are forced to commit commercial sex acts, forced into a system of domestic servitude or employed in occupations that are mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. It's estimated that those children being enslaved bring in more than 100 billion dollars a year to their captors. Around the world, an influx in sex...

Co-Host Kirk Nurmi We are not born with a sense of embarrassment, nor is there any sort of universal standard for what is and what is not embarrassing. Instead, it is a culturally sensitive concept taught to us by our family and our peers. A concept we accept without reflection because the burden of embarrassment appears to be universal, an inherent part of being human. Yet in reality, being embar...

It’s not easy to be comfortable in our own skin. Many of us don’t like the reflection we see before us in the mirror. Imagine looking in that mirror and seeing a person looking back at you that you don’t recognize. Yes, it’s familiar because you’ve lived with it for years but deep down inside you see yourself as someone completely different. So many of us have often wondered what it would be like...

Death is not an easy subject to talk about. So many fear what they don’t know or understand. Clarity is a beautiful thing and sometimes it comes in ways we would never expect. Out of tragic circumstances, something beautiful can be revealed. Co-Hosts Jeff and Spencer Olsen Jeff Olsen led a pretty normal life with his wife Tamara and young sons Griffin and Spencer until that fateful day, March 31st...

Being in the throes of passion is just one of the amazing gifts associated with the human experience. At the same time, passion can be very destructive. In states of destructive passion, we are capable of destroying not only ourselves but those around us. Many times, such destruction takes the label of a “crime of passion.” A crime of passion is said to be defined as a crime committed because of v...

Being a first responder is not an easy job. Putting your life on the line, day after day for those you serve. We entrust these brave men and women to run into the gates of hell and we don't really get to see The Human Side and how certain things can affect them. They are exposed to things that most of us average folks will never have to experience in our lifetime. Co-Host - Retired Major of the Ok...

Living our lives in the dark is a terrible place to be. Every one of us is unique and although our traumas and issues can be something someone else can relate to, it doesn't mean that they have all the answers or that they will completely understand what we are going through. We don't even have all the answers but sometimes the light reveals itself in a way we would never expect and it gives us th...

Nothing can be more devastating than the death and loss of a child. The relationship between parents and their children is among the most intense in life. Parents are not supposed to bury their children. Co-Host Retired Phoenix Police Sergeant Darren Burch Darren Burch is a 29-year veteran with the Phoenix Police Department and was the Silent Witness Program Director. His prior assignments include...

We all make mistakes in life. We all make choices that can cause us to go down some pretty dark roads. Sometimes life deals us a crappy hand, but these are all lessons that we can learn from. We can use those mistakes to redefine who we are and create a better outcome for ourselves. We can take ownership of our mistakes and choices we’ve made, to not only grow but to help others in the process. Co...

Your mindset is everything! If you're stuck and not knowing what to do, maybe your mindset needs a reboot. Maybe it's time for you not to just think outside of the box but to crush that damn f'ing box and let your creative positive energy force take over! Co-Host Tray Goodman Tray Goodman is a visionary who provides practical, inspirational and often times satirical commentary on enlightened ways...

Co-Host Kirk Nurmi interviews Robin Cote "The Queen of the Collective" Stories we share with others create bonds. The stories we tell ourselves, more often than not, separate us from who we really are. Why? Because more often than not, self-defeating, fear-based stories are designed to keep us in our comfort zone. How do we attack these thoughts? By confronting their truthfulness at it's source......

Mark Twain once said, “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” More often than not, we humans have more questions than answers when it comes to our existence. There has to be a reason why things happen the way they do and why we must go through the trials and tribulations we face in our lives. Co-Host Retired Police Sgt. Steve Wamsley Steve...

Trauma can be devastating but it can be something beautiful. We can either let our trauma take us down and ruin our lives or we can rise above it, finding a way to work through it, not only to heal ourselves but to share our stories in the hopes of helping others. Co-Host Audra Rene Weeks Audra's childhood was not an easy one, having faced her brother’s suicide when she was only 9, dealing with fa...

The staggering numbers of repeat offenders is mind-blowing! Recidivism is at an all-time high with little to no reform being offered to those incarcerated. Many of those behind prison walls will eventually rejoin society. What can we do to ensure that they can lead a productive life and not re-offend? Why are there more private prisons being built every day? Join us as we get real and delve into p...