The Unfinished Human®

The crows are circling, the veil is thin, and six retrogrades are happening at that same time. Scorpio season is here, and it’s bringing witches and revolution. I originally planned to tell you about growing up in a haunted house in northern Minnesota. The season of the witch had other plans. So in true retrograde form, we pivot. This episode is part astrology breakdown, part personal reckoning. A...

This is the conversation before the conversation. Before Daníel Colón and I got into revolutionary astrology (that’s Ep 43), we just started talking, and it turned into one of my favorite chats. Neither of us was at 100% that day, and that ended up being the whole point. We talk about showing up as your 70%, your 50%, even your 10% self, and why you don’t have to perform to be in connection with p...

I got one of my favorite astrologers on the podcast! Daníel Colón of Color Me Crazy and I talk revolutionary astrology, the Libra new moon, Venus retrograde in Scorpio, and what to do when your spirituality can’t just be about you. Daniel is the astrologer and teacher behind Color Me Crazy, where he practices what he calls revolutionary astrology: astrology for liberation. I did a soul session wit...

Mirrors, Not Cages — Part 3 This one is the newest, weirdest, and truly the one that resonated the hardest. Otroversion isn't in the mainstream psychology textbooks yet. New York psychiatrist Dr. Rami Kaminski coined it in his 2025 book after decades of noticing patients who didn't fit introvert or extrovert; they felt like outsiders even inside groups they were technically part of. I took the Oth...

EP41: Not an Introvert. Not an Extrovert. Perhaps You're an Ambivert? Mirrors, Not Cages — Part 2 I could hardly sleep for two nights straight researching for this episode, and it was so worth it. Ben and I dig into ambiversion, the personality type that's basically the middle finger to Jung's whole introvert/extrovert binary. I think that’s how psychologist Edmund Conklin felt when he coined it i...

The Sibling Files ™ Series: Mirrors, Not Cages — Part 1 of 3 Welcome to Mirrors, Not Cages, a 3-part Sibling Files™ series where my brother Ben and I crack open the four psychological personality types and ask the question underneath all of them: is this framework helping you find yourself, or is it just another mask? Part 1 starts with the sky. August 2026 is an identity reset month, astrological...

The nodes changed for the first time in almost 19 years, Lion's Gate peaked on 8/8, and a new moon total solar eclipse in Leo lands August 12th, followed three weeks later by a full moon lunar eclipse in Pisces. This is not a manifest-your-vision-board month, this is a burn. In this solo episode I break down August 2026's astrology: the lunar nodes flipping onto the Leo/Aquarius axis on July 26th,...

Ben bought a bike. Lyndsay overdid it. Again. And neither of them have figured out how to stop before the body makes them. Part 4 of The Sibling Files wraps up this recording session with a deep dive into getting back into movement after years of surgeries, burnout, and bodies that have different opinions about what they can handle now versus their younger bodies. Lyndsay's been going hard on Pila...

Ben's plotting his exit. And…same. Part 3 of this The Sibling Files session takes a hard turn into early retirement math, expat life, and the very Gen X question of: what if we just... didn't do this anymore? Ben's been running numbers, talking to friends who've already retiredat sixty, and researching what it would cost to live well somewhere else. Philippines, Malaysia, Portugal,...

So. An Ivy League school slid into my DMs about The Unfinished Human® name. And then things got weird. Part Two of of this installment of The Sibling Files picks up right where we left off — and this episode is a wild mix of trademark battles, a boomer giving unsolicited fatherly advice over email, astrology that was uncomfortably accurate, and a random $250 showing up from the Washington Departme...

What happens when two siblings get on a podcast with no agenda, no script, and no plan — and somehow end up ina deep conversation about AI, surveillance capitalism, and the slow erosion of human autonomy? Welcome to The Sibling Files. It's June. The weather is chaotic. The algorithm is watching. And Lyndsay and Brother Ben are winging it — beautifully. This episode (part 1 of 4) kicks off Seas...

So. Chiron just moved into Taurus. On Juneteenth. And I'm not letting that day pass without saying something. Before we get into the astrology, a quick acknowledgment: it's Juneteenth, the day commemorating when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas finally learned the Civil War had ended and they were “free” — in quotes, because we know how many broken promises came after. I'm calling i...

What does it mean to be human when the world feels like it’s burning? In this unscripted anniversary episode, I reflect on one year of The Unfinished Human® and the unexpected path this project has taken — from personal writings to sibling conversations to guest interviews to this moment of raw, unfiltered truth telling. I talk about the creative well running dry, the medicine of getting back on m...

What happens after the identity collapse? After the title isgone, the body has spoken, and the old success story no longer makes sense? In Episode 32 of The Unfinished Human® , I continue the conversation with executive coach, speaker, and author BeccaPearce ( You Don’t Have to Achieve to Be Loved ), moving deeper into the terrain that follows burnout, illness, and ego death: stillness, grief, mon...

There’s a particular kind of ache that comes with being ahigh achiever: the belief that love, rest, safety, and belonging are things you earn through output. And for many of us, that belief doesn’t loosen its grip until something ruptures—an ending we didn’t choose, a loss we can’t outwork, abody that refuses to keep carrying the load. In this episode, I sit down with Becca Pearce, a formercorpora...

What does it mean to return to movement—not as the person you were, but as the person you are now?   In Part 3 of our Sibling Files catch‑up series, Ben and I continue unraveling what it means to rebuild our lives inside bodies that have shifted, slowed, and demanded new forms of care. We talk about returning to cycling after years away, the egobruises that come with aging, and the surprising joy...

What happens when the body you’ve relied on your whole lifesuddenly refuses to cooperate—and the tools you swore you’d never use become the ones that finally help you heal? In Part 2 of our Sibling Files catch‑up series, Ben and I pick up right where we left off, diving deeper into what it means to rebuild a life inside bodies that have changed faster than our identities have. We talk about GLP‑1s...

What happens when the body you've always pushed keeps pushing back? In this first installment of The Sibling Files catch-up series, I sit down with my brother Ben to talk about what Q1 2026 has really looked like for both of us—surgeries, recovery, and the humbling process of relearning how to move in bodies that no longer play by the old rules. Ben shares the full story of his ankle surgery: the...

What does it really cost to belong — and what’s the cost if we don’t? In this unfiltered and richly human conversation, I sit down again with Andrea D. Carter , organizational scientist and creator of the Belonging First Methodology™ , to talk about the personal side of belonging — the messy, inconvenient, unfinished part we all wrestle with.   Andrea shares how belonging often breaks down not bec...

What if belonging isn’t just a feeling — but a brain-basednecessity? In this unfinished (and completely unfiltered) conversation,I sit down with Andrea D. Carter , organizational scientist, global speaker, and founder of Belonging First , to unpack the real science and human cost behind belonging. We move past the buzzwords and dig into what it truly means to create spaces — at work, at home, in o...

It starts with crooked shirt banter and ends with a question that could break you open: If life imploded—what would you fight to keep? Lyndsay and Brother Ben talk humanity, integrity, and what stays when the world loses its mind. They wrestle with moral courage, fear, and the quiet hope that maybe—just maybe—we’d still choose compassion when everything else burns. And because it’s them, the conve...

Plant medicine, shadow work, and the ache of un-becoming. Some truths don’t rise in words — they erupt through the body. This episode is part of my Harvesting the Raw series, a night of shadow work , plant medicine , and somatic unwinding that didn’t just crack me open…it flooded me with joy and love I didn’t know my body still remembered. Yes, there was release. Yes, old trauma stirred. But what...

It opens with laughter, caffeine, and the death of morning routines. Lyndsay and Brother Ben talk about the dumbest habits they’ve ever tried to force themselves into — from “just do it” culture to the delusion that being a morning person makes you morally superior. Between the sarcasm and real talk, they explore body rhythms, ADHD revelations, and the liberation that comes with finally working wi...

When the Forgotten Parts Speak: Shadow Work from the Shores of Port Ludlow When the forgotten parts finally speak, they don’t whisper — they rise like a tidal surge you can’t outrun. This episode of The Unfinished Human™ is part of my Harvesting the Raw series, where I share the reflections that surface when I stop performing and let the shadow tell the truth. Recorded after a week of deep shadow...

This one starts with tea and tumbles straight into truth. Lyndsay and Brother Ben sit in the tension between devotion and depletion — what it means to keep showing up for others when you’re already running on fumes. They talk leadership, burnout, and the myth of balance — that constant negotiation between service and self, between wanting to make things “special” and realizing that often just mean...