The Truth Is

Romance author Joss Richard joins us this week to talk about what happens when something that's lived quietly inside you for years finally asks to be shared. We talk about the leap from corporate to a creative life, how writing fan fiction became her quiet training ground, and the months of 5 a.m. mornings that led to It's Different This Time — a story that began in the Notes app on her phone and...

If you missed this one when it first aired in October 2025, here's your moment. Kathryn sits down with her sister, Alyssa Flaschner , for a conversation about paying attention to what makes us feel alive, and how change really happens: not all at once, but through tiny degree shifts that slowly realign our lives toward what feels true. In the stillness of COVID, Alyssa began to notice a quiet pull...

This episode first aired in December 2025. We're bringing it back because it's one that stays with you. What if the clarity you’re looking for isn’t “out there” at all, but already inside you — waiting for the moment it comes into view? In this conversation, NYT bestselling author and adventurer Jedidiah Jenkins sits down with us to talk about revelation, habituation, aging, and what it means to b...

Kate Boyer is a Los Angeles-based stunt woman and actor who has built her career one leap at a time — literally. She grew up in Philadelphia with an explorer's mindset, found her way to martial arts young, and eventually packed everything into a Honda Civic and drove cross-country with a vision. What she found on the other side of that move became the foundation of a decade-plus career in film and...

Wilfredo Perdomo is the founder of DESTINO, a wellness-focused hospitality and lifestyle concept he's building in the Catskills. As a Cuban-American raised by immigrant parents, his foundation is rooted in working hard, creating beauty with what you have, and making people feel genuinely welcomed. He spent eight years working with Drew Barrymore, most recently as president of Barrymore Brands — bu...

Charlotte Jackson is a private chef, cofounder of CANDID, writer, coach, and host focused on helping people have better conversations with themselves and each other. She's also one of the original minds behind Reading Rhythms, the silent reading community that started on a rooftop in Williamsburg and caught the attention of the New York Times and the Today Show. Charlotte is one of those people wh...

"I'm the last to know why I do things," Kate Mueller said to me during this interview. What an enticing revelation, especially as Kate and I looked back on the creative projects that have come through her, starting with a coffin she began building when she was 19, that sits in the middle of her living room at 35. She told me it is a good way to not watch too much Netflix. Not only has her coffin b...

Tazin Khan is a cyber risk strategist, digital rights advocate, and the founder and CEO of Cyber Collective, a nonprofit dedicated to making digital safety education accessible, human, and community rooted. Her work is driven by a simple but urgent belief: everybody deserves to experience the internet without harm. That belief didn't come from a boardroom. It came from growing up Bengali in post-9...

Corey Thibodeau is the co-founder of West Side Yoga — three studios in Providence, Rhode Island that have become something rarer than a successful small business. A place where people find each other, and sometimes, finally find themselves. She will not dress it up for you. What it actually takes to build something real while straddling a corporate career. What it feels like to give a decade of yo...

This week, I'm taking a little space — and I want to offer you the same. A year into leaving the corporate world to build something new, I caught myself in a familiar pattern: the same nonstop hustle I thought I'd left behind. This episode is a small pause to name that, sit with it, and try something a little different. I share where my obsession with truth actually began — a foundational acting e...

Wade Brill woke up the Monday we recorded this episode, got a last-minute cancellation, and found herself with unexpected open space in her morning. She didn’t fill it. She went for a walk. That choice — to meet the open space instead of immediately closing it — is the whole philosophy. It sounds simple. It isn’t. She’s been practicing it for a long time. Wade Brill is a mindfulness coach, meditat...

After a month of conversations with Esosa Osa, Asma Khan, Franziska Gonder, and Stacey Lindsay, Kathryn steps back to name what she's learning and living through: the humility of being a year into a major career transition, the gap between taste and execution that every creative has to sit inside, and the growing pressure to outsource her own thinking in an age when that's never been easier to do....

Stacey Lindsay is a journalist and author whose work has always centered on one thing — creating the conditions for people to tell the truth. As a girl, she watched Diane Sawyer, Maria Shriver, and Christiane Amanpour on the news and felt the thread pulling her toward that work. Years later she took the risk to follow it. Her early career as a journalist took her out into the field — everything fr...

There are conversations that inform you. And then there are conversations that return you to yourself. Lucky for us, this one does both. Franziska Gonder arrived on this show as what I can only describe as a missing puzzle piece — for my own understanding and for the inquiry this season has been journeying us toward. Guest after guest this season has been pulling a thread about what it means to li...

The first time I heard Asma Khan speak, I was sitting in the back of an auditorium in Los Angeles at a crossroads in my life. I didn't know who she was before that day. By the time she finished, something in me had shifted.  She spoke truth — about her own life and about the world we live in — in a way that felt like an earthquake of permission. Asma Khan is an Indian-born British restaurateur, co...

The information around us has never been more abundant. The truth has never been harder to find. Not because we've gotten less intelligent. But because the systems shaping what we see, believe, and repeat were not designed with our discernment in mind. In this episode of The Truth Is, I sit down with Esosa Osa — founder and CEO of Onyx Impact , former Deputy Executive Director of Fair Fight Action...

Over the past month on The Truth Is , I’ve had conversations about rest, nervous system regulation, pleasure, and the systems shaping our attention. After stepping back and looking at them together, I realized they were all circling the same question: Why is it so difficult to access what’s actually true for us? This episode is a pause to process what’s emerging across the season. For most of my l...

The present moment doesn’t just feel noisy. It feels disorienting.   Not because we’ve become less thoughtful, but because we’re living inside systems that reward reaction over reflection — systems that pull at our nervous systems all day long and quietly influence what starts to feel obvious, urgent, or true.  In this episode of The Truth Is, I sit down with strategist Jiore Craig to explore what...

What does it actually mean to regulate in a world that feels increasingly dysregulated? In this episode, I sit down with somatic movement educator and author Nahid de Belgeonne to explore the nervous system not as a self-improvement project, but as a doorway back to discernment. Nahid is the creator of The Human Method™ and The Soothe Programme, a 12-week somatic approach designed for high-functio...

What would change if you believed you were worthy of pleasure? In this episode of The Truth Is , I sit down with Cindy Scharkey — Registered Nurse, OB/GYN nurse, Certified Childbirth Educator, and host of the podcast and author of Permission for Pleasure . With nearly 40 years in women’s health, Cindy has witnessed how silence and shame shape women’s relationship with their bodies, sex, and desire...

Rest isn’t just about slowing down. It’s about remembering who you are. This conversation begins there. My guest is Sam Bianchini, an international yoga teacher, psychedelic therapist, and artist. Sam led a Yoga Nidra training I took during a season of deep burnout — a moment when I didn’t yet know what was next, but knew I couldn’t keep moving the same way. In this conversation, we talk about the...

In Spain, there’s a ritual called La Hora del Vermut — a pause in the middle of the day that isn’t about winding down or earning rest. It’s a celebration of the day itself. This conversation starts there — with vermut, salty snacks, and a toast. My guest is David Neimanis , a maker I grew up down the street from, whose life has moved through music, writing, food, and now building a Spanish vermout...

What does it mean to make decisions from love instead of for love ? In this conversation, I sit down with Samantha Abrams to explore how that distinction quietly shapes our work, our relationships, and the lives we build—and why it takes real courage to live it. Samantha is a transformational guide and entrepreneur whose work centers on embodiment, self-trust, and aliveness. Many people first come...

A year-end solo reflection drawing three throughlines from the season: telling yourself the truth, loosening the grip of identity, and orienting toward curiosity. Featuring moments from conversations with Joanne Molinaro , John Markland , and Jedidiah Jenkins . This episode gathers what emerged, without conclusions, as the show steps into a new year. We Revisit:  Telling yourself the truth as a da...

What happens when achievement delivers everything it promised, except fulfillment? In this episode, Kathryn sits down with Megan Hellerer to examine the quiet crisis many high-achieving people experience: success on paper, disconnection inside. Megan shares the moment when the old rules stopped working — and how that reckoning led her to develop a different way of living and working she calls Dire...