The Jocelyn Moore Show

Dr. Julie Pham, social scientist, author, and CEO of Curiosity Based, joins Jocelyn Moore to unpack why respect isn’t universal and why that changes everything. Drawing on community organizing, academic research, and her Vietnamese American upbringing, Dr. Pham introduces the rubber band rule: we all stretch to show respect, but knowing your breaking point is its own form of self-respect. Her book...

Matthias Biehl is a DEI practitioner, inclusion consultant, and founder of Pool Match a monthly service that pairs strangers for random conversations across difference. In this episode, he joins Jocelyn Moore to break down what DEI really means, trace the origins of "woke," and make the case for why empathy is a muscle, not a personality trait. He also shares his own story: growing up as a Brown,...

Katie Lain struggled with alcohol addiction for nearly ten years before discovering the Sinclair Method a naltrexone-based treatment that helps the brain neurologically unlearn alcohol addiction without requiring abstinence. Now the founder of Thrive Alcohol Recovery, Katie joins Jocelyn Moore to break down how the treatment works, why it isn't more widely known, and why the traditional narrative...

Cancer biologist and debut novelist Shivani Malik joins Jocelyn Moore for an honest conversation about grief, identity, and what it means to belong. After losing her mother the woman who shaped her entire sense of self Shivani turned to writing to process what science could not reach. She also speaks candidly about the unique pressures immigrant women face in academia and biotech, and the childhoo...

Army veteran, former IT tech CEO, and traumatic brain injury survivor Antoinette Berrafato joins Jocelyn Moore to answer the question more people over 50 are asking: how do you stay relevant in a world run by AI? From reversing kidney damage and eliminating 20 medications through natural medicine, to becoming a sponsored adventure sports athlete at 53, to building the New Normal Big Life podcast A...

Ken Cox went from a childhood spent surviving to running a St. Louis data center, coaching young boxers, and writing a bestselling recovery book he originally refused to write. He tells Jocelyn Moore why every program he tried failed him until he changed one thing the story he told himself about who he was. Boxing, business, comedy, and a Georgia jail cell all show up in a conversation about rebui...

Teri M. Brown spent years writing copy for small businesses and hiding the fiction she desperately wanted to write until leaving an abusive relationship, riding a tandem bike across the United States, and deciding she could do anything. Fourteen months later her first novel was out. Now she has three novels, a memoir, a children's book, and a new comedic take on menopause coming this spring. She j...

Amani Roberts is a DJ, music historian, and author who spent four and a half years writing the book on Black R&B groups that didn't exist yet. The Quiet Storm covers the full arc from civil rights anthems to the untold stories behind legendary groups including the Supremes' long road from being called the No-Hit Supremes inside Motown to 11 of 13 number one hits, and the Whispers' 23-year jour...

Peter Gunn died at seven years old from heat stroke, had a near-death experience complete with a life review and an angel who sent him back, and came home with prophetic gifts he learned to keep quiet. What followed across the next four decades: a childhood obesity battle he solved at the library, a bodybuilding career that started at 18, the U.S. Air Force, PTSD from a mortar strike in Afghanista...

Jason Lange has spent over a decade helping men break out of the man box, the cultural pressure to be invulnerable, self-sufficient, and emotionally silent at any cost. As the founder of Evolutionary Men, he leads men's groups and coaches individuals through shadow work: the process of identifying the unconscious patterns and beliefs driving behavior men don't understand and can't seem to stop. He...

Ryan T. Reichert served 23 years as a U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel and spent most of that time using alcohol and prescription drugs to cope with what he was carrying. After retirement, it all caught up with him. Lost marriage. Estranged kids. Lost job. Two years into sobriety and a rebuilt faith, he's written three books, launched a podcast, and built Our Protector Development to help veterans and...

Russell Van Brocklen has dyslexia and he turned the frustration of a system that failed him into one of the most effective and affordable dyslexia remediation methods in the country. His approach: don't teach reading, teach writing. Build it around the child's passions. Work in 10–15 minute sessions. One family's son went from the 11th percentile in reading to the 64th in five and a half months. H...

Daryl Dittmer has been sober for 40 years since 18 days after his 19th birthday. He grew up on a farm, became a liar and a thief chasing addiction, entered recovery before he could legally drink, put himself through college as a first-generation student, built a business, retired at 48, and wrote two books in six months. His memoir When I Stopped Fighting and follow-up When You Stop Fighting cover...

Jessica Danel built a million-dollar childcare business in 2008, survived one of the first school shootings in American history in 1992, raised a daughter with open-heart needs, cerebral palsy, and autism, and walked away from it all to be present. Her memoir Bucket List from a Redneck Girl captures it exactly the way she talks raw, funny, and honest in a way most people don't dare to be in print....

Dr. Corinne Auman expected to help 40-year-olds care for 70-year-old parents. Instead, she works with 70-year-olds caring for 90-somethings — proving our aging assumptions are decades behind reality. Her book Kienagers reframes older adulthood as a time of continued growth, not decline. From Medicare myths (it doesn't pay for long-term care) to ageism's cognitive dissonance (we separate "old peopl...

Dr. Fred Moss dropped out of college twice before working at a state mental health facility planning to stay three weeks for paychecks. Forty years later, he's a psychiatrist exposing the system's truth: medications don't heal, they perpetuate symptoms and create lifetime customers. His books Find Your True Voice and Creative Eight reveal how music, art, cooking, and authentic connection communica...

Getting Marines ready for inspection is easy, just give an order and they follow it. Getting your own kids ready for school on a Monday morning? That's the real battle, complete with attitudes, negotiations, and nine times out of ten, a lot more resistance than any drill sergeant ever faced. Major Olaolu Ogunyemi knows both worlds intimately: 12 years as a U.S. Marine Corps officer, leadership rol...

WATCH ON YOUTUBE ################ In this thought-provoking episode of The Jocelyn Moore Show, Jocelyn welcomes Dr. T. Owens Moore, biological psychologist, professor, author, and African-centered scholar, for a fascinating discussion on melanin—what it truly is, why it matters, and how it shapes our health, identity, and future. ✨ Dr. Moore shares how to: – Understand melanin as a powerful biolo...

WATCH ON YOUTUBE In this inspiring episode of The Jocelyn Moore Show, Jocelyn sits down with Rick K. Branch, a U.S. Navy submarine veteran turned actor and producer, to explore how military discipline and grit prepared him for a thriving career in entertainment. From national defense missions to film sets and stage performances, Rick’s story is a powerful example of reinvention and resilience. ✨...