WORLD GONE GOOD

Adele Wang helps sensitive, perfectionist, high-performing women create happiness and success in an imperfect world (gone good). She is a mentor, healer, stress relief specialist, and keynote speaker. She's also the host of her own podcast, All Things Human. Adele is here to share her thoughts on getting past the 'stuck' by listening to the fire in our bellies, living life with containers, and tru...

Jeffrey V. Noble is a man on a mission to educate, motivate and empower. From uplifting himself from the projects of NYC to traveling the world to study with and learn from spiritual teachers, he's a master healer and trainer who uses Pranic Healing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and other healing modalities to help people overcome health and emotional challenges. His organization The Noble T...

Emilie Leyes is a brain-training specialist and hypnosis practitioner. This is our first good guest in a trio of episodes focused on getting unstuck thru our mind, our gut, and our soul. Emilie's here to handle the mind section by helping us explore where we find our personal safety, how important it is to get out of our comfort zone thru travel, and how some metaphoric bears in the woods keep get...

Here we go out of the studio and into a parking lot filled with classic cars and the people who love them. We are talking with car buffs and collectors, how they find community thru their cars, and just how much nostalgia plays into all of it. From this group's ring leader, Dirty Pete (that's his name, I can't make this stuff up), to Barracudas and Slug Bugs, rev up with us as we find the good in...

Katherine Roberts is not shy to make change and take leaps in her life. She is the very definition of a self-starter and she’s got her own special recipe - you’ll see why we use that word when you listen - for good. Katherine shares the good of passing down family recipes, reinventing meals as well as yourself, and believing in yourself even when it's the scariest thing to believe in. This is the...

Rob Peterpaul, host of the Art of Kindness, joins us to close out 2023 in a good - and kind - way. The Art of Kindness is a positively star-studded podcast that converses with and celebrates artists from all areas of the entertainment industry who are using their platform to make the world a better place. We're just two Jersey boys talking Jersey Boys the musical, the good of making new year resol...

Merry it up: Our good guests Jaci Pund, Katherine Roberts, Donna Perkett, and Keri & Tom from Snow Windows are all here to bring some shiny(ness) and some bright(ness) to your holidays. We are talking everything that's good this season from sausage bread to remodeling Santa's wardrobe to kidney transplants (yes you read that correctly). This is an annual tradition here at World Gone Good that's fi...

At just 12 years old, Connor Wright decided the world needed more kindness and so Connor's Kindness Project was born. Connor along with his nana, Sharon Marrama, started creating Covid Care Packages filled with activities and comfort items and delivered them to children in their community that were sick or in isolation from Covid. From there, Connor and Sharon worked on a few other projects includ...

Keri and Tom from Snow Windows join us to spread some holiday cheer. It all started back in 2007 when one Christmas Eve Tom decided to surprise her with a snow scene on their kitchen window. Tom has always been artistic and thought of a new way to use regular snow spray to decorate. He sprayed it onto the window and brushed an image of a little house into the spray. And the rest, as they say, is h...

Alethea Crimmins is Pimpin' Positivity on a daily basis, right from her car, into the hearts and minds of over 1.5 million friends and fans on Tik Tok. Now you might think she's always been this strong and confident but it turns out she's human just like the rest of us and she grew into her true light. We talk everything that's good from loving your own self just as you are, right where you are to...

Grey James is a good target. That's the title Grey has chosen in light of what is going on in Grey's community. And just what is going on? Well, the same thing that's happening across the United States: An assault on books, history, sex education, and in this case, LGBQT+ equality and rights. Grey shares his journey as an artist, how he strives to bring his community together, and why some people...

AC Sloan is the author of Suffer! Yes - with an exclamation point. Fear not, you will not suffer with or without an exclamation point reading her delicious novel nor will this happen listening to our oh so good conversation. Warning: Two writers on the podcast at the same time. Eeeek. No - Hurray exclamation point! We talk the good of being creative, putting yourself out there, and what happened t...

Drew Droege invites us aboard Titanique, the smash hit off-Broadway parody of Titanic featuring the music of the one and only Celine Dion. Drew's career spans everything from Reno 911 to Bob's Burgers to Hot In Cleveland to his original videos re-imagining and saluting Chloe Sevigny, he's always careful not to cross the line to get a laugh. He shares what it's like growing up in a funny family, wh...

Everyone deserves one good scare on Halloween or so the movie of the same title tells us. Good guest Angelique Perrin returns on All Hallow's Eve to share her idea of what makes a frighteningly good time. From favorite scary movie to most memorable costume to the always fun question, 'Do you believe in ghosts?,' enjoy this creepy fun bonus. And yes those are host Steve Silverman's dogs dressed up...

Julie McGuire's life took a tumble, so she got back up and didn't just walk forward, she skied forward up and down and over mountains way beyond any she had ever imagined. This is the figurative and literal journey of someone making the choice to actively start over and begin anew. This is also the story of one person finding themselves and realizing they are more than they ever thought they could...

Angelique Perrin uses her voice not just to make a living but also to uplift those around her including the next generation of personalities and podcasters. She's the creator of Podcast Bootcamp which, in association with KCRW Radio in Los Angeles, brings the medium to the underserved artists. We talk about how she got discovered while waitressing, her Dark Shadows connection, what the lockdown di...

Rebecca OBrien took the bus to and from her cancer treatments and did the most logical next thing: She wrote a show about it, 'Getting There,' performed it in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and won the top award for Best One Person Show. And that's how we say a big F U to cancer, people. Rebecca shares her journey - literally, it was a journey - and how it changed her perspective on the world and...

Who's ready for a good party? Join us as we celebrate our 3 year anniversary! This special show features a look back at some of our fave good moments, a look forward at our good upcoming guests for Season 4, and a good story that literally happened next door featuring Steve's 91 year old next door neighbor and her daughter. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be inspired, uplifted, and have a smile o...

Faith Salie is our most visited good guest and we love having her. A portion of this show originally aired in Ep #61 - our 1 Year Anniversary Show. But we felt like you needed to hear the full, unedited conversation, recorded over two years ago. Prepare for a TALF update, the importance of voting, a discussion of what Steve is wearing, Nancy Pelosi impressions by Faith's daughter, and the turning...

Crystal Carson originally joined us way back for Episode #15, our very first ever Holidays Gone Good. In that episode, you got to hear a portion of her magical holiday story. Now you get to hear the whole thing completely unedited. As we approach our 3rd anniversary, we thought it'd be fun to dive back in and share some of the stories that got left on the cutting room floor. Crystal originally tol...

Wicked's Wendy Worthington originally joined us for Episode #32, Musicals Gone Good. But what you hear in that episode is only a small portion of our full recorded conversation. And since we're headed toward our 3rd anniversary and kick off of Season 4, we thought we'd feature some of our favorite good guests and their complete unedited and uninterrupted recordings. We're starting with Wendy, who...

Wendy Madore is the good force behind Daytime Stars & Strikes, the annual weekend of events to benefit the Autism Society of America and the Jerry verDorn Scholarship Fund, which sends children on the spectrum to theatre camps. Her vision is to raise awareness and funds for individuals living with autism, to ensure all receive opportunities to learn, socialize, establish friendships, receive educa...

Jessi Keenan is proving one person can make a difference with her organization the Orange Cooler Project. This community-based project focuses on communication as much as doing good. Jessi speaks directly with people presently in between homes who live on the street in her neighborhood. She finds out what they need, tries her best to work with city hall, and encourages everyone to work together. A...

Pip Lilly's story could be a musical but he's already been starring in a musical so let's focus on that good part, shall we? For The Love of a Glove was featured back on our Musicals Gone Good episode and that's the same show Pip took the stage for as Jackson 5 patriarch, Joe Jackson. But there's more to his story including a Covid lockdown and a battle with stage 3 cancer - how's that for a twist...

Stop what you are doing and listen to this. Trust us, you'll be glad you did.