Other People's Shoes

🎙 The Assignment Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Darryl W. Thomas Jr. What happens when the person you're trying to protect becomes the very reason you find your purpose? At fourteen years old, Darryl W. Thomas Jr. experienced a loss no child should have to endure. On February 16, 1997, a violent confrontation ended with the death of the man he called Dad. The man he looked up to. The man he...

  🎙 My Rhythm Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Jo Kelly What if the person you've been searching for has been with you all along? For Jo Kelly, rediscovering herself didn't happen in a quiet moment of reflection. It happened in a hospital hallway, with music in her ears, her body moving, and a cancer treatment waiting on the other side of the door. After separating from her husband, navig...

🎙 Volume UP Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: James Luginbyhl What happens when life turns down the volume on everything you thought mattered most? For James Luginbyhl, the loss wasn't simply a marriage or a custody battle. It was the life he imagined sharing with his two daughters. After what James describes as an awful divorce and an even more difficult custody battle, multiple attorneys advi...

🎙️ Still Room at the Table CAPTAIN'S LOG | SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE Guest: Sean McCoy Captain's Log: Some journeys aren't measured by the miles we've traveled, but by the people who continue walking beside us. And sometimes, the greatest test of a friendship isn't distance. It's difference. My friendship with Sean McCoy began years ago in a podcasting community called Rocket . What started with a sim...

🎙 Paradigm Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Tori DaCosta What if the biggest thing standing between you and a different future isn't your circumstances but the way you've learned to see them? We all have a way of looking at life. A collection of beliefs, experiences, assumptions, and expectations that shape how we interpret the world around us. But what happens when that perspective no longer...

🎙 Silence Mode Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Tom Sö What happens when the noise finally stops? For years, Tom Sö knew how to keep moving. Work harder. Chase success. Make more money. Push through whatever was happening internally and keep going. From the outside, that can look like ambition. From the inside, it can become exhausting. Eventually, Tom reached a point where pushing harder was...

 🎙 More to Life Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Mia Godfrey ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses childhood trauma, abuse, addiction, grief, death, loss, and emotional pain. What if surviving is only the beginning? For much of Mia Godfrey’s life, survival was something she became very good at. Growing up in Romania under communist rule, Mia experienced poverty, trauma, instability,...

🎙 Permanent Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Dean Sikes ⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode discusses childhood sexual abuse, trauma, suicide, suicidal thoughts, and emotional pain. Sixty seconds can feel permanent. At 15 years old, Dean Sikes experienced sexual abuse. In the aftermath, he made himself a promise: he would never tell anyone what happened. He kept that secret for 22 years. The abus...

🎙 Best Friend Season 24: Lost & Found | Guest: Elke Scholz What if the person you spend the most time with is also the person you are hardest on? For Elke Scholz, anxiety wasn't always something she could easily identify or explain. It could show up as exhaustion, fear, self-criticism, overthinking, or simply the feeling that something wasn't right. And somewhere along the way came a painful d...

Get It... Season 24: Lost & Found | Steve Wormer What if confidence isn’t about convincing everyone else that you have it all together? What if it’s simply learning to believe that you’re worthy enough to take the next step? In this episode of Other People’s Shoes , I sit down with Steve Wormer, founder of the You Are Worthy Network , for a conversation about confidence, empathy, action, and w...

🎙 Fore! On a golf course, that word is a warning. Something is coming. Pay attention. Protect yourself. Get ready. But life doesn't always shout “Fore!” before something comes flying toward us. For Kym Coco, there was no way to fully prepare for losing her husband, Stephen “Steve” Thompson. After Steve became seriously ill, the two of them realized their time together was limited. Their priorities...

🎙 Choose Your Hard Season 24: Lost and Found | Guest: Cory Young Would you rather is a dangerous game to play. So, let’s play. Would you rather give up walking or give up the hobby you’re most passionate about? For most of us, it’s just a question. For Cory Young, something close to that choice became his life. This season of Other People's Shoes, Lost and Found , explores what happens when we los...

🎙 Growth Season 23: The List | Guest: Greg Pihs What if forgiveness is something we have to grow into? All season long, The List has asked us to think about the names we carry. The people who hurt us. The people who disappointed us. The people whose names we might rather cross out than forgive. For our season finale, Greg Pihs brings us face-to-face with one of the hardest questions of the entire...

🎙 WHY   SEASON 23: THE LIST Close your eyes for a moment. Only do that if you are not driving right now. How do you picture your forever? For Oriana Sparks, forever looked like sitting on a dock, sipping a beer, and growing old beside the man she loved. Then, only days after giving birth to their third child, her husband was tragically taken from her. The dream disappeared in a moment. The future...

⚠️ LISTENER WARNING This episode contains a raw and detailed conversation about depression, grief, self-hatred, suicidal ideation, access to a firearm, and a specific suicide plan. It also discusses the death of someone by suicide. Some listeners may find this episode difficult or triggering. Listener discretion is strongly advised. If you or someone you know is struggling in the United States, ca...

🎙 PARTY Season 23: The List | Episode 400 Four hundred episodes. Four hundred conversations created through early mornings, late nights, searching for guests, recording stories, editing audio, and believing that empathy can change the way we see one another. First and foremost, I want to thank my wife, Elizabeth. Other People’s Shoes began because she inspired me to stop talking about starting a p...

⚠️ CONTENT WARNING This episode contains candid conversations about depression, grief, suicidal ideation, and suicide. Please listen with care. This conversation reflects personal experiences and is not a substitute for professional mental health support. If you are experiencing a suicidal crisis or emotional distress in the United States or its territories, call or text 988, or visit the 988 Suic...

  🎙 ANOTHER BRICK SEASON 23: THE LIST The third little pig built with bricks because bricks kept the wolf out. That is what walls are supposed to do. Protect us. But the same bricks that keep danger out can also keep everyone else away. In 1961, the Berlin Wall divided a city, separating friends, families, and loved ones for twenty-eight years. When it finally came down in 1989, it was dismantled...

🎙 POP SEASON 23: THE LIST Some names are difficult to forgive because of what someone did. Others are difficult because of everything they failed to do. For Terrence Newby, the hardest person on his list is his own father, a man whose addiction repeatedly came before having a relationship with his son. In this episode of Other People’s Shoes , Terrence opens up about growing up around addiction, w...

LISTENER WARNING Dr. Carron talks openly about being sexually abused. This episode also includes conversation around domestic violence, trauma, police brutality, and political violence. Please listen with care. 🎙 POSSIBLE SEASON 23: THE LIST   IS FORGIVENESS POSSIBLE WHEN THE COST IS HIGH? That is the question this episode sits with. Not cheap forgiveness. Not quick forgiveness. Not the kind that...

🎙 UNFRIEND Season 23: The List What does it really mean to unfriend someone? Most people think it's about clicking a button on social media. But sometimes the hardest person to unfriend isn't another person... It's the version of yourself you've believed for years. For Willie Blake, dyslexia wasn't just a diagnosis. It became an identity. One that whispered he wasn't smart enough, capable enough,...

🎙 SPEECHLESS Season 23: The List Have you ever been speechless? I know I have. I remember getting cut from the basketball team in high school. Speechless! I remember standing at the front of the church and watching Elizabeth walk down the aisle on our wedding day. Her beauty took my breath away. Speechless! I remember hearing my daughter Adia's heartbeat for the very first time. Speechless! I stil...

🎙 GHOSTED Season 23: The List What does it mean to be ghosted ? Ghosting is when someone suddenly cuts off communication without explanation. No phone call. No text. No goodbye. One day they're there... the next day they're gone. Most of us have a name on our list connected to that kind of silence. A relationship that ended without closure. A friendship that disappeared. A conversation that never...

🎙 Password Season 23: The List We all have a list. Names we'd rather not hear. People we'd rather avoid. Conversations we'd rather never have again. Some people earn a place on that list through betrayal. Others through disappointment, abandonment, or broken trust. But what if forgiveness doesn't mean giving everyone unlimited access to your life? What if grace and boundaries can exist at the same...

🎙 SAVE THE TIGER THE LIST We all have one. A list we don't write down. A list we don't talk about. A list of people we just can't seem to forgive. Sometimes the names on that list belong to people who betrayed us. Sometimes they belong to people who manipulated us. And sometimes... They belong to people who convinced us they were speaking for God. 👣 GUEST INTRODUCTION In the summer of 1997, Peter...