Where Was I?

Ghosts don't need you to believe in them. That's kind of the whole problem. This week we're talking about the places that hold on to things. The rooms that feel wrong. The moments that sit in your chest in a way that logic never fully reaches. And a few specific instances where something happened that I genuinely cannot explain and have been thinking about ever since. We're going to Ireland. We're...

Before White Rock Lake was a lake, it was a valley. Before the park and the running trail existed, that valley held a community. And before it was a community, it was freedom — for people who had just been told they were free for the first time.   This episode was recorded six weeks ago. A lot has happened since. Including the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act in a 6-3 ruling that didn't...

You remember the Pizza Hut shaped like a Pizza Hut. You remember the smell of Blockbuster... plastic and popcorn in a way that cannot be fully explained but you know. You remember standing on your tippy toes reaching for a movie case that was already empty and grieving it in real time under fluorescent lights. That wasn't nostalgia. That was your nervous system working exactly the way it was suppo...

In the last episode, we found out what was underneath the mall. In this episode, we go back and get our girl. Because Hilary Duff was never a footnote in someone else's story. She was inside the machine ... the Limited Too catalogs, the Disney channel, the industry that turned her into a product before she finished middle school — and she felt all of it from the inside. The body comments at 17. Th...

You know the smell. Bath & Body Works from three stores away. The carpet. The popcorn. The particular feeling of walking into Limited Too and believing — truly believing — that you were the main character and you deserved to feel that way. We did deserve to feel that way. That part was real. What we didn't know was who built it for us. And why. In this episode we walk through the mall together...

This episode was released one day after CNN published a months-long investigation into a global network of men coaching each other on how to drug their partners, film their rape, and sell access to watch it live. I recorded this episode before that story broke. I'm releasing it anyway. Because the boys we're talking about in here didn't do that. And what we do next still matters. Not all men. But...

What if one of the most influential ideas about masculinity… was never true to begin with? In this episode, we unpack the origins of the alpha male myth, tracing it back to flawed wolf studies that were later debunked, but never fully corrected in culture. What started as bad science didn’t just stay in textbooks. It shaped how we understand power, leadership, gender roles, and masculinity today....

What happens when the very thing that makes your child extraordinary becomes the reason they’re targeted? My daughter was being bullied at school and I almost didn’t know. Not because the school missed it, but because she didn’t tell me. In this episode, we’re unpacking why gifted, creative, emotionally intense kids often become targets for bullying and why they carry it alone. We talk about the q...

Why does doing something for yourself feel… selfish? Welcome to my messy, loud brain. If you’re tired of staying small, carrying all the emotional weight, and pretending that grief and rage have expiration dates, this episode is for you. I’m sharing personal stories, a little unexpected research, and the permission you didn’t know you needed to finally speak up and take care of yourself. Featuring...