Well, That F*cked Me Up! Surviving Life Changing Events.

Send us Fan Mail Kyle is back from some Covid time out, as Luke and Kyle discuss Crystal's amazing episode all about how we can recover from a lack of self belief.  All too often we listen to the voices in our head, and all too often our upbringing has had a huge impact on how we feel about ourselves. Thank you as always to our guests who bring on such inspiration and positivity to some reall...

Send us Fan Mail This week, an amazing story of fear, rejection, loss and grief, and a comeback story to soothe the soul. Crystal grew up in an environment that didn't nurture her self esteem. She would go through a period of serious overeating as a teenager, weighing almost 200lbs at age 14.  Cut to a few years later, Crystal would lose her Dad suddenly, get divorced, and move back to her ho...

Send us Fan Mail Kyle is back from the Covid wilderness to chat to us about the last episode, Bevan's Story.  I subject close Kyle's heart as Kyle too suffered a stroke in his thirties, thankfully not quite as severe as our guest Bevan. It's an insightful after thoughts episode and one that makes us ponder the fragility of life once again. Bevan was just going about a normal day, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's amazing episode, Bevan Choate joins us to discuss his life altering stroke at just 35 years old. We hear about the moment he knew something was wrong, the two near death experiences during his 52 day stay in hospital, and his road to recovery less that two years since the the day in question. Bevan is a Doctor and would perform surgeries, and one of the hardest...

Send us Fan Mail In this after thoughts section, Luke Colson looks back on the previous episode which featured our guest Dr Robb Kelly discussing his Alcoholism and how he finally turned things around. As someone who can directly relate to alcohol abuse, Luke offers some thoughts on the disease itself and some of the issues around treatment in the US. Kyle Wise couldn't join this one due to C...

Send us Fan Mail It's not often we have so many extraordinary things happen in one episode. Where to start!? Dr Robb Kelly was an alcoholic of desperate proportion, he would do literally anything to get a drink. At one point, Rodd tells us how things became so bad that he stabbed his wife just to get to the Vodka! Alcohol and Drug addiction can strip you of everything, and Robb would end up h...

Send us Fan Mail Wow. Lots to unpack here listeners and thank you Lori for an amazing episode! In this After Thoughts section, Luke and Kyle discuss belief systems and how we end up believing in what we do. It often takes trauma of some kind to land on a specific belief, and in fact we have had guests on who's belief system, religion, or families' religion have been the cause for the tra...

Send us Fan Mail Buckle up, this one is a wild wild ride. This week we are joined by Lori Reising, who takes us on an amazing journey of self discovery and connection to the greater universe. Her traumatic childhood was filled with rejection right from the get go, as she was abandoned as a new born baby! But, Lori's story starts even before her birth, as she is a firm believer of parallel and...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes it's hard to find the hope and light in these stories of trauma and suffering. The events that Leigh and her son have been through, and are going though, really put things into perspective. Leigh has shown such strength to come on the show and tell us her harrowing tale and it really does offer hope to people who might be going through something similar. Luke and Ky...

Send us Fan Mail In this heartbreaking and raw episode, Leigh describes the events that led to her son having a total psychotic break at the age of just 16. Leigh's Son, Mark, had recently moved to China with his Dad. Leigh lived in England and It had been hard letting Mark go to live so far away as a young teen. One morning she came home to an onslaught of messages that her son was having so...

Send us Fan Mail In this Bonus section, Luke and Kyle (Hosts) discuss the last episode, in which Kyle Bachus tells the story of his mother being struck and killed by a truck while out walking one day. Such tragedy and grief is hard enough for a family, but the lack of justice that the truck driver faced seemed to rub salt into the wounds. As with all our stories, we focus on the triumph over traum...

Send us Fan Mail When your Mother or Father go out for a walk, you naturally expect them to come home. Kyle Bachus' Mother was not so lucky, when she was suddenly run over and killed on a cross walk by a cement truck, she never stood a chance. Worse still had to be identified by her jewelry by the family. In this heartbreaking and emotional story, Kyle tells about the hell that was the follow...

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Kyle discuss the previous episode, Jean Marie's Story, which was all about the listening to the universe, and taking those crossroad moments and seeing them as a chance to rest, or change, or breathe, or recover. We discuss how it is easier said than done, and it's easy to take an injury as a set back and spiral into depression or darkness. Interestingly many of...

Send us Fan Mail The heading for this episode is just the beginning of this amazing and inspirational story. Jean Marie Keevins discusses her positive attitude to something that could have completely  destroyed her career and her life in general. The night was Xmas Eve, when she badly broke her Knee Cap on the stairs to the subway in New York. Jean Marie remembers the night that would change her l...

Send us Fan Mail This is the after thoughts section for the previous episode, Sam's Story, if you missed it, go back and join us here afterwards. Sam is amazing, and the fact that he has taken his 'muddled brain' and made sense of it, is a wonderful thing.  We know that there are millions of you out there struggling with Mental Health, and in Sam's case, crippling anxiety. Luke...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks EXPERT Edition - Sam Led was born with a neurodiverse brain (see below for definition). In other words he was born with a brain that just works differently. After being diagnosed with ADHD, OCD, GAD by well meaning mental health professionals, he thought he needed fixing. As a child he was placed in a 'Slow Learner' classroom that even had a sign on the doo...

Send us Fan Mail Luke and Kyle discuss the previous episode, Tarah's Story, and we commend Tarah's bravery for coming on and telling her story. What an emotional and thoroughly raw conversation. We started this Podcast to bring attention to people's life changing experiences, and to hear how our guests made it trough, sometimes against extraordinary odd. You do not need to suffer al...

Send us Fan Mail In one of the most emotional episodes we have had to date, Tarah tells us about her harrowing and traumatic childhood growing up with her drug addicted mother. She tells us about her heartbreaking decision  to leave the family house at 12 years old, and give herself up for foster care, which is the legal age in Canada. She had to leave her little brother behind to save herself, an...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine having to flee your country because you fear for your life. This was just the beginning of Soodabeh's amazing struggle. Luke and Kyle discuss resilience and ponder what it means to hep people out, in even the smallest of ways. Just a little gesture can change someone's life, and give them hope and a reason to live. This was a great episode. Thank you to all our l...

Send us Fan Mail Soodabeh Mokry, fled Iran as a 30 year old woman, in the early 1990's, after years of oppression by the then Iranian government. At the age of 19, as an activist, she had been arrested and beaten into a coma, narrowly escaping death. In this amazing episode, Soodabeh talks about her escape from Iran to what she hoped would be freedom in America. Arriving in the US with nothin...

Send us Fan Mail We can only imagine that moment when we are told, 'I'm sorry, you have Cancer!' Life can become so fragile in an instant. In this After Thoughts episode, Luke and Kyle discuss the previous story, in which Nicola described her journey from Cancer diagnosis, to her life today, 12 years on. She lives with her cancer, and more importantly she lives away from traditional...

Send us Fan Mail 'I am afraid you have Cancer, and a 65% chance of making another 5 years'. These are the words that Nicola Corcoran heard, as a mother of two, over a decade ago. In this mesmerizing episode, we hear how Nicola rejected traditional medicine, including Chemo and Radiation, and changed the way she lived in order for her to succeed and continue living a life beyond her wilde...

Send us Fan Mail Just little old Luke for this one, chatting to you lot, all our lovely listeners!! Question: Why do we stay in abusive relationships? We would think it would be so easy to see the abuse, and leave, but it's really not that simple. Often people outside the relationship can see it clear as daylight, but those in the relationship either can't see it, don't want to see...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Candice Smiley from 'Create The Ripple' Podcast joins us for an unfalteringly real and honest episode about love, abuse, and mistrust in her relationships, and how she finally banished her demons and started to live her life on her terms! In her late teens, Candice was repeatedly sexually abused in a relationship with a man for 2 x years. She found the strengt...

Send us Fan Mail This is the After Thoughts section for the previous episode, Tom's Story.. Luke and Kyle like to have a chat about what we have just heard, and join up some dots. This weeks episode involved 2 x very different near death experiences.. and our guest Tom said that these moments have really shaped his perspective on life. The most amazing thing was how he described the eerie sil...