Modern Day Overthinker

Carson Tuttle is a standup comedian and middle school teacher located in Iowa City. We sat down at his home with his dog George Michael and discussed comedy, some regrets of his, failure, the importance of good friends, living in the moment, and the challenges he faces being a middle school teacher in 2023. Keep up with Carson here: www.instagram.com/mrtuttlenation Follow Modern Day Overthinker ev...

Nikki Murray is a Quad Cities personality who embodies the ultimate Jack of all Trades. Wearing many hats in her life including mom, comedian, makeup artist, burlesque dancer, and more. On this episode, Nikki and I discussed ADHD, Postpartum Depression, Therapy, and more. Keep up with Nikki and MDOT using the links below. https://linktr.ee/nikkimartistry https://moderndayoverthinker.com/

Brandon Scott has been my barber on and off for about a decade now. For at least the last couple years, every time I get my haircut with him we discuss mental health. So obviously, I had to have on the podcast again. This time, he came over and we talked about him living with Bipolar Disorder (BPD 2) as well as his eagerness to challenge himself. Other topics include his relationships with his cli...

Sarah Edwards is the founder of Set Apart Company and a fellow mental health advocate. We had the opportunity to talk about a variety of topics such as OCD, anxiety, work flow process, consistency, setting goals, and plenty more. Sarah is an awesome person who loves to talk about self growth and mental health. I hope to have many more conversations with her in the future. More about Sarah: https:/...

On this episode of the Modern Day Overthinker podcast I sat down with a new friend of mine Judi Creighton and talked about her experience with a traumatic brain injury. Judi deals with memory loss, depression, and anxiety as a result of a car accident. We discussed her injuries and how those have impacted her up to this day. We also conversed about her having a teenager at home with mental health...

Adam is a friend of mine who loves to talk about recovery, addiction, and mental illness. So, of course, I had to have him on to talk considering I do as well. Adam had plenty to share with me as we sat in my office/studio on Saturday the 19th. We made sure to talk about his CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) diagnoses in addition to Substance Use Disorder. We also talked about recover...

Liv Carrow is the President of QC Harm Reduction and a full-time therapist as well. I had the pleasure of having her on the show to discuss harm reduction, addiction, recovery, EAP (Employee Assistance Program), therapy, and trends she is seeing as a therapist.

Stevie Mo is a local comedian here in the Quad Cities who sat in my living room and talked to me for just shy of 3 hours. Don't worry, I cut it down and still gave you a great episode to listen to. Stevie and I talked about him growing up in Rock Island and going to Rock Island High School, how he loves cooking for people, his battles with alcohol abuse, suicide, losing his best friend and our mut...

Christian Hann is a Quad City native and a new comic on the stand up comedy scene. We both sat in our living room with a brief outlife of what we wanted to talk about. Those topics included anxiety, depression, comedy, deck hockey, acting, and the passing of Christian's father Brad Hann who passed away in September. This was a huge blow to his family as well as the comedy community and other perfo...

Zach Nielsen (LMHC) is the founder of Bloom Therapy. He is a therapist who specializes in trauma-informed counseling and LGBTQ+ research. He also has a background in social work, specifically with crisis intervention. On this episode we talked about how Bloom Therapy became a reality for Zach as well as societal expectations, therapy, escapism, addiction, recovery, and how we both believe everyone...

Quinn and I go back with a friendship spanning over 10 years. She is someone I have always enjoyed talking to, and I know I am not the only one. Therefore, her being a guest just made sense. On this episode, you can hear Quinn and I discussing how she found out she is autistic as well as other topics many can relate to such as social anxiety, depression, communication, and more. Bonus: you get to...

Dana Moss-Peterson is comedian, actor, and writer from the Quad Cities. We have shared the stage on multiple occasions as well as a couple of car rides to do comedy outside of town. On this episode we talked about some of my/our favorite comedians, Dana losing both of his parents, grieving, resentments, possible PTSD from a relationship, and his personality type. New episodes of the podcast are re...

Decided to make the 50th episode a little different where I am the guest, and a good friend the host. Callie was one of the first people to ever be on this podcast and has seen my go through a lot in the last 5 1/2 years. I answered all the questions that were submitted that I felt were relatable to you as the listener, which was basically all of them. Thank you everyone who submitted questions. T...

With episode 50 delayed due to audio issues, I decided an episode still needed to be dropped. New episodes drop every Monday, and I wasn't gonna just not upload a new episode for the week. So, what did I do? I hooked up the mic and started talking directly to you the best I could. Hopefully something resonates with you or someone you possibly share this with. Also, I want to note that you will hea...

Lori Hopper is a Mental Fitness Coach (Reframe: Mental Fitness Coaching) and fellow Assumption High School alumni based in the Quad Cities. This is an episode jam packed with so much information I cannot fit in one brief description. The key thing we discussed was our relationship with ourselves, and how that effects the way we see and approach life. A couple of main topics of conversation were bo...

Ben Woodfield is a standup comedian, podcaster, writer, and actor from Muscatine, Iowa. He is also a recent graduate of the University of Iowa (Go Hawks!). Ben and I sat in my living room a couple weeks ago and talked about a variety of topics. The topics we discussed included, but are not limited to social media, forgiveness, processing death, seasonal depression, comedy, and much more. Ben has h...

Katy Miller is the founder and product creator at Lillie and Pine, a cruelty free + vegan bath + body brand based in the Quad Cities. Katy and I discussed a lot on this episode. We wanted to focus on her ADHD diagnosis, and how it was recognized at an early age for her. We also talked about our grandparents a bit, relationships, how her business got started, and much much more. Katy and I are also...

Katlyn is a Mindset Mentor who I stumbled upon on TikTok and have been keeping up with for awhile now. Many have fit the description of the podcast title, and Katlyn (Katy) is definitely one of those people. She is definitely an overthinker, and we could have kept talking all day if this were a Joe Rogan podcast. However, I like to keep the episodes limited to 1 to 1.5 hours and we barely went ove...

Jake McDowell is a Licensed Massage Therapist, Combat Veteran, and Comedian from the Quad Cities. He joined me on this week's episode to discuss authenticity, PTSD, addiction, and so much more. We also share a love for doing standup comedy so we had to discuss that as well. This is one of my longer episodes, but it's filled with honesty, authenticity, and some humor as well.

Dana is a Social Worker and MMA fighter currently located in Des Moines, Iowa who was excited to share her story and struggles with mental health throughout her life. She is a proud member of the LGBTQ community and currently works for a non-profit advocating for LGBTQ youth. She also has a background working with at risk youth in residential treatment. Her personal story started with depression a...

Dan Bush is the founder of Bummer City Inc., which is a hospitality company based in the Quad Cities. They are all about building your favorite hang out spots in Davenport, Iowa and Moline, Illinois. Dan has struggled with depression and anxiety for most of his life. He decided a few years ago to try something different. He tried ketamine therapy and his life has not been the same since. It was gr...

Jon Clash (formerly known as J-Clash) is a former rapper turned entrepreneur who has a transformation story I wanted everyone (including myself) to hear. I have known Jon virtually for over at least a decade and have been seeing all the great things he has been doing online with his life and business ventures. He has evolved into a devout Christian, and the path to get there was not overnight. Thi...

Robert Jaynes (Uncle Cletus) is an East Moline, IL native who recently got involved (over the past year) in comedy and how he has always wanted to do it. We talked about how he deals with PTSD, being bipolar, and having mild schizophrenia. He feeds off positive energy, his higher power, and the planet to uplift himself in addition to comedy to assist in battling his mental illnesses. We also went...

Lauren Rosen (LFMT) is the Founder and Director of The Obsessive Mind which specializes in treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Anxiety, and Eat Disorders. Lauren and I talked about my personal struggles with OCD, recovery (from substances and disorders), and about the Evidence-Based Therapy methods that are used today to treat anxiety disorders such as OCD. Follow Lauren on Instagra...

Bringing you a bonus episode this week for International OCD Awareness Week with my friend Jenna Overbaugh! Jenna is a licensed professional counselor and the Clinical Marketing Director at NOCD (www.treatmyocd.com). We talked about the different subtypes of OCD, its misconnceptions, and I shared my personal struggles with this time of the year and it coincidently being the time of year when my OC...