My Best Life

It's been said that one person’s magic is another person’s engineering - and that’s exactly the bridge we build here. I’m joined by Andre Crabb, a former Silicon Valley software engineer who left tech after deep misalignment and health decline, then rebuilt his life around somatic healing and energy work. Andre brings a rare mix of grounded logic and lived experience, translating big spiritua...

Sixty seconds doesn’t sound like a comeback story, but it can be. Author, runner, and mindfulness coach Nita Sweeney joins us to share how one tiny jog at age 48 became the first crack of light after a long stretch of chronic depression, intense grief, and the kind of heaviness that makes even getting out of bed feel impossible. We walk through what made that first minute work: choosing a goal so...

A prison riot is not the kind of moment anyone would choose, yet it can be the moment that rewrites everything. I’m joined by Peggy Oberthier, a spiritual mentor, healer, speaker, and author whose life took a sharp turn after a traumatic experience working in a youth detention center. What followed wasn’t just recovery, but a full identity reset: the collapse of external validation, the ache of re...

A thousand-foot fall tends to clarify what matters. Lincoln Stoller joins me for a wide-ranging conversation that starts on a steep slope of Mount Robson and quickly turns into something bigger: how we meet uncertainty, how we build real resilience, and why the stories we tell about “luck” often hide the role of preparation, awareness, and responsibility. Lincoln’s life crosses borders that most p...

Your mind can replay the past like a broken playlist while your body quietly carries the cost. That’s where this conversation with Vandana Atara Noorah lands: in the real, lived space where anxiety shows up in your stomach, your heart, your throat, and your nervous system, and where healing becomes something you can feel, not just think about. We start with Rumi’s line “The wound is the place wher...

Your mind already knows more than your anxiety will admit, and sometimes the fastest way to hear it is to quiet the noise instead of fighting it. We’re joined by Ali Christos, a Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique (QHHT) practitioner, music producer, and author, to break down what QHHT really is and why it’s less about “woo” and more about accessing a deeper layer of consciousness. We walk through...

Death, grief, intuition, and healing are topics most people avoid until life forces the conversation. I’m joined by Laura Rose, founder of Sacred Soul, an intuitive energy channel, spiritual medium, and end-of-life guide whose work is rooted in a hard-earned transformation through depression, panic attacks, and chronic physical pain. What makes Laura’s perspective land is how practical it is: she...

Breath is happening all day long, yet most of us never learn how to use it on purpose. We sit with breath coach and Peak Breathing Academy founder Aakrist Dongol to explore why functional breathing is one of the most overlooked tools for mental clarity, emotional resilience, and real-world performance. His lens is grounded in physiology, but he’s not afraid to name the deeper side of the work: whe...

Cannabis gets shoved into a box: harmless fun, dangerous drug, miracle medicine, spiritual shortcut. I’m not buying the box. Instead, I’m taking a more honest path, exploring how cannabis can function as an “amplifier” of consciousness and why intention matters more than inherited opinions, media narratives, or moral panic. We walk through the spiritual history of cannabis, from ancient references...

Ayahuasca gets talked about like a trend, but the reasons people seek it are rarely trendy: grief that won’t lift, patterns that won’t break, pain that keeps finding new places to hide. I sit down with Unju Mann to hear her story of losing her mother, sliding into nightly autopilot drinking, and eventually saying yes to a first ceremony in Peru after months of research and hard honesty. We get spe...

A nickname can be a costume, a shield, or a doorway. When Christine Lamothe spent decades introducing herself as “Bear,” it wasn’t branding, it was survival, community, and a long cocoon of inner work. Now she’s taking her given name back and sharing what changed her from the inside out, from breaking circles in the 90s to the wide silence of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. We talk about how break...

Calm is not something we earn after we get our life together. It is something we practice, especially when life feels messy, fast, or heavy. I sit down with Imad Kadaj, founder of Grounded Movement, to talk about what it really means to anchor yourself before you try to change everything else. His path runs from growing up with asthma and ADHD in Lebanon to walking away from a high-paying job in C...

Courage isn’t always loud. Sometimes it looks like walking into a pediatric ICU, taking a deep breath, and choosing to care anyway. We talk with pediatric ICU nurse Colleen Fitzgibbons about what critical care nursing really demands: sharp clinical judgment, fast crisis response, and the kind of teamwork that can feel like an unspoken pact in the middle of chaos. Colleen shares how she found nursi...

Addiction doesn’t usually crash into your life all at once. It slips in as a shortcut to confidence, comfort, and connection, then quietly starts making your choices for you. Dennis Milling knows that progression firsthand, and he’s blunt about what alcohol took from him, what denial sounded like in real time, and why trying to “drink responsibly” became a losing game he kept replaying. Dennis wal...

A physician walks away from the exam room because she can’t ignore what she keeps seeing: symptoms rarely tell the whole story, and healing often starts where prescriptions end. I’m joined by Dr. Neda Amani, a University of Toronto–trained medical doctor who shifts from traditional family medicine into a broader path of integrative medicine, leadership work, and spiritual connectedness. We talk ca...

Two voices show up when we get quiet: the one that tightens with fear, and the one that speaks with compassion. We open with a real moment on the yoga mat, then dive into a grounded conversation with Devinder Kaur, a Kundalini yogi and the owner of Pranashanti Yoga Centre in Ottawa, Canada, about what kundalini actually is and what it is not. We unpack the classic “dormant energy at the base of th...

In this absorbing conversation, I speak with Devdas Sahaja of Sahaja Collective , an engaging and insightful yogi with over two decades of experience. We explore Devdas's early journey into yoga, influential figures in yoga history, particularly Paramahansa Yogananda, and the evolution of yoga in the West. The discussion delves into the depth of yoga practice, the energetic aspects often over...