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My next guest is Cameron Armstrong. Husband, father, writer, ice bather, drummer and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. We’re doing a deep dive into the human condition, mental health and knowing that every house has a story. And how we all can use therapy to turn our crap to currency. Website - Request a quote for therapy  cameron-r-armstrong.com Insurance: Optum, Aetna through the Alma Network Req...

My next guest is Arianna Worthen, a 33 year-old single woman and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . She opens up about the joys and challenges of dating in the LDS community while living in the motherland of Utah. There may just be too many choices for one girl to make. It's like being a kid in a candy store. Quality men, contact Arianna Instagram Facebook #LDSDating #Morm...

My guest today is sound therapist, Saige Geertsen with Saige Frequencies , we talk about the ancient meditative healing experience called sound baths. Though this practice may seem like a “new age” concept, it is technically thousands of years old with deep roots in cultures across the world. With this spiritual,  cleansing  music, those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves produced by, singi...

When you use social media, what do you look for? Happiness, relatability, or something else? Author, Lea Zikmund takes a deep dive into this exploration. In the midst of her dad’s illness and becoming a young caretaker, Lea Zikmund began looking to social media to find community. In the process, she began to notice a dynamic in our culture that tends to criticize those who share publicly about mom...

My guests today are the hosts of a one-of-a-kind live podcast, the Disarranged Talkshow, Matthew Gardner and Andrew Turner. Two brave Marines, who have created their show to help the ongoing transition from military to civilian life and all it's complexities. It's a form of therapy for them and their audience. We talk about working through PTSD whether from miltary experiences or just plain ole li...

My guest today is Adam Coleman, Author of  Black Victim to Black Victor , identifying the ideologies, behavioral patterns and cultural norms that encourage the victim mindset. We talk about how the disconnect of the family and disregard of common sense ideas has led to the slow decay of not only the black community but many others as well and what you and I can do about it. #BlackVictim #VictimCom...

My next guest is Samie Hardman. She is the mother of 12 year old Drayke Hardman, who back in February of 2022 took his own life as a result of being bullied in school. Drayke was the epitome of empathy, kindess and love in his 12 short years. She joins me to talk about the signs and events leading up to his tragic suicide and how the family is not only coping but thriving in the 8 months since he...

My next British guest is coming to us live from Lincolnshire in northern England. Journalist, Paul Croft, shares his perspective on the state of the world and politics which are much the same anymore. From his humble beginnings as a deep sea fisherman, grave digger and swimming pool builder, Paul gives us some well rounded counsel and wise life advice on how we can change the world by changing OUR...

My next guest has a very unusual career. He's not human really. He entertains thousands of NBA fans every night. No one can see him yet everyone can see him, but not really see him. He may or may not be related to another animal in the NBA who may or may not have been one of the all-time greatest mascots for the past 31 years. We chat about growing up with in that shadow and how that influenced hi...

My next guest is a trauma SurTHRIVER & mental health advocate on a mission to create personal change through spreading love, bringing awareness, & assisting others in their healing, self-love, growth & grounding within themselves…for themselves and their relationships. After experiencing just about every type of physical, verbal, and religious abuse one could endure from an early age, she became t...

My next guest, is the host of the popular and sometimes controversial podcast Latter-day Takes, Harper Anderson. Join me as we talk about how he he dives into LDS culture and of course sprinkles the show with a bit of the Mormon's “other” religion, BYU sports. Find Harper on the following platforms: Instagram: @latterdaytakes - https://www.instagram.com/latterdaytakes/ and @harpey Facebook: harper...

My next guest, is 85 year old husband, painter, inventor, Michael Smart coming to us from Scunthorpe, UK. He and his lovely wife Susie are with us to talk about the passing of the Queen and their life growing up in the UK, serving in the RAF, working at British Steel Works and what they have been doing for the past 30 years since retirement. Living a life of love and a passion for personal growth...

My next guests, Elia Torres and Celina Ramos are sisters whose family imigrated to the US in 1981 two short years after the start of the brutal Salvadoran Civil war that ravaged the country from 1979-1992. Listen in as they tell tales of how the family lived and survived literally in the crossfire of the warring El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) , a coalition or...

My guest, Kris Kristensen, is back for the third time to give us an update on his continued progress since he had his left leg, pelvis and colon removed due to stage 4 bone cancer and subsequent internal sepsis infection. We talk about the ups, downs, personal, familial and career challenges. Kris is now trying to get back into the workplace as he has somewhat normalized his life. After overcoming...

Back in 1970, my next guest, Dale Oilar, now 71 years old, was drafted into the US Army at the ripe old age of 19. He said it's the only lottery he ever won. He served two years in the miltary and one of those years was in the Vietnam War. Join us as we do a deep dive into the life of an infantry sniper, the things he saw, the things he endured, the things he had to do to survive while fighting th...

My next guest was a struggling, worn-out concrete contractor who worked from sunup til sun down every day to barely make ends meet. One grueling day a client he was working for gave him a miraculous gift which changed his fate and fortune almost immediately! The gift was a manuscript of the writings of Sultan Musa of Mali, the richest man to ever walk the earth! The Sultan embedded the secrets of...

My guest today is Ben Schilaty, co-host of the Questions From the Closet podcast and author of the book A Walk In My Shoes, Questions I’m Often Asked as A Latter-day Saint. Ben is with me today because I have, in the last 6 months been doing a ton of homework into the LBGTQ community after my oldest daughter came out as . One of the first stops on my path has been listening to their podcast. He an...

My guest today is Heather Thomson, life-long liberal democrat, all-around great human and my cousin. She’s on the show today to talk about her adverse reaction to the SCOTUS ruling on Roe v Wade and why she thinks it’s a horrible idea that makes women second class citizens. In the process, however, we discover that no matter what side of any political topic we may fall, we can still see and apprec...

I had the privilege of having 13-year veteran of the Louisville, Kentucky Metro Police Department, Dexter Pitts as a guest on the podcast a few months back. Now the tables have turned and I am a guest on his show called I Am Pitts. We discuss many of the current issues plaguing America and some recent hot button issues such as Roe v. Wade, Juneteenth and how social media is widening the gap and ca...

When God wants to give you a gift, He wraps it up in a problem. The bigger the gift, the bigger the problem. My next guest is Jedediah Beckstead and he is with us today to talk about how on a random spring day in March of 2015 his life changed forever. While doing a front summersault jump onto a trampoline, a move done hundreds of times before, he fell on his head and suffered a life altering inju...

My guest today is Tony Acosta, a new friend, fellow realtor, and podcaster here in the Salt Lake area. But the real reason he is on the show today, he’s also an amature boxer. Most of my life I thought boxing was one of the dumbest sports of all time. Why would someone willingly subject themselves to a concussion and other bodily injuries. I get it that sports are risky and injuries can happen but...

My guest today is Dexter Pitts, coming to us today from Louiville, Kentucky. Dexter is currently serving his community as a police officer on the Louisville Metro Police Department, served one year as a US Border Patrol agent in Arizona and prior to that, did a tour of duty in Iraq where he was severely wounded by and IED in 2005. He has also published his first book called “I Am Pitts: Memoirs of...

Welcome back to the program Parrish The Though listeners. Today, my guest, back on the show for a third time is Kenny Wyland, self proclaimed liberal, atheist, capitalist geek. We tackle the tug-of-war of understanding within social and political issues between liberals and conservatives. We demostrate it is possible to have decent and civil discussions in spite of the ever widening divide in our...

My guest today is host of the ever growing podcast, We The People, Our American Stories , Tina McCafferty. Her show focuses on American heros as she sees them, from members of the military, entreprenuers and immigrants, to the every day Joe. So apparently, today, she thinks I’m a hero of sorts. We introduce our audiences to each other and discuss the reason for each of our podcasts. We also talk a...

My guest today is a newly called missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Ashton Burgon. If you recall, about 7 months ago I had my daughter, Emily on prior to her entering the mission field to Bentonville, Arkansas. Ashton is a good friend of hers. As part of entering the MTC or Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah, they are tasked with interviewing someone who h...