I Thought I Knew You

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. Today we have a special episode with my dad. Growing up, my dad was good at a lot. He was athletic and adventurous and smart and handsome. He loved to read and was always trying to learn something new. He was intentional in the way he raised my brother and I. He worked hard to try to get it right. I remember hearing him p...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here today. We have a special episode with my friend Stephen. Stephen is incredibly peaceful and kind. He works tirelessly to be useful to find places where he can help friends and be a cheerleader for them. He gives freely what he has and offers his hands or his mind or whatever it is that you need. He is game for life. He ans...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. Today we have a special episode with my friend Ashley Loeb Blassingame, or ALB for short. Ashley is maybe the most open person I've ever known. She's not afraid to hold up her mistakes and is constantly trying to evolve. She's someone who actually considers ideas when people suggest them, even if they seem opposed to her...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here! Today we have a special episode with my friend Hunain. Hunain is even and calm. He's deeply dedicated to his family and will drop anything to be there for them. He's open and easy and playful. He also happens to be a bioengineer who helps kids with epilepsy and he has perfect hair. Barf. You're in for a good one today.  W...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. Today we have a special episode with my friend Ashley. Ashley is hilarious and wise beyond her years. She's interested in other people. She's brave and honest. She is someone that I immediately liked and I'm not the only one. She radiates warmth and has people laughing within moments of meeting her. She's evolved immensel...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. Today we have a special episode with my friend Zeeshan. Zeeshan is an incredibly intentional person. He's committed to attempting to constantly evolve. He's rare in his willingness to actually consider ideas even when they go against his belief system and is unique in the attention he gives people as they speak to him. Th...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. Today we have a special episode with my friend Natalia. Natalia is one of the hardest working people that I know, And yet it never seems to diminish the energy she has for other people. When you speak with her, she treats you like she has all the time in the world. Even when you know there are hundreds of things that are...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. Today we have a special episode with my friend Spencer. Spencer is like a cat. He plays it coy, but he's actually loving and loyal and a softie. He's creative and he's bitingly funny, and he holds everything loosely. Spencer's been through a lot and he continues to impress me with his perseverance and his willingness to w...

 Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. Today we have a special episode with my friend Kate. Kate is hilarious. She is whip smart. She is totally herself. She was the first guest to bring knitting, which she did for the duration of the interview. And obviously she brought a family chamber pot, Kate has a deep grasp of history and a fascination with death. Get...

Welcome to another episode of I Thought I Knew You . I'm so glad you're here today. We have a special episode with my friend Joe. One thing out of the gate to acknowledge, and you'll hear it in the episode, but I had to restart this episode because I pushed the record button twice, meaning that I didn't record the first 45 minutes of the conversation. Don't worry, we get back into it and I catch y...

Today we have an amazing episode with my good friend Callie. To understand Callie is to understand a person who is a wonderful storyteller, who is a combination of humor and, deep insight. She's the daughter of a therapist and also someone who you'll discover in the episode was unwilling to even mention the fact that she went to Harvard. So you have this incredible combination of somebody who is v...

Welcome everybody! I'm so glad you're here. This episode was with Alex. Alex is an incredible mix of hard work and vulnerability and humor. In this episode he talks about his life feeling like he's been on a treadmill, and I think that's a really apt description of his journey. He's always pushing and driving forward, forward, forward and currently at a moment where he's questioning some of that....

Welcome to I Thought I Knew You. I'm so glad you're here. If you're new to the show, here are the rules of the game. My guests must be people I already know. They cannot be celebrities or otherwise famous people, and I must be as willing to be open as my guests are. Consider this podcast the be a tourist in your own city version of an interview show. Let each episode be the restaurant you drove pa...

 For 13 years, I lived with a secret that drove every aspect of my life. The person I am today only came into existence when that secret escaped. If you only know me now, you wouldn't have a clue what shaped me. And every person I meet is also changed and shaped by life. I want to know their before as much as I want to know their after. So here are the rules of the game. My guests must be people I...