Behind Beautiful Things

Kevin

sadtimeskc@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

Behind Beautiful Things is a mental health storytelling show where guests share how sadness and emotional pain show up in their lives—then what they learned through recovery, resilience, or transformation. For PR teams, it’s a strong platform for leaders, authors, and lived-experience experts who can translate personal hardship into practical empathy and human-centered insights.

Metrics

Episodes: 194

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 31 subscribers

Contact Information

sadtimeskc@gmail.com

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Host

Kevin - Kevin hosts Behind Beautiful Things and invites guests to share how sadness manifests within them, including behavior patterns that surface when someone is sad, upset, or troubled. The show positio...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
A meaningful personal story connected to sadness and mental health (often including lived experience such as burnout/breakdown, emotional burnout, trauma/addiction/incarceration) plus a credible public-facing role such as author, founder/leader, or an education/advocacy professional.
Required Achievements:  
Published memoir or book, Leadership role (e.g., business owner/leader) tied to workplace well-being, Program or mission work in education/mental health

Recent Guest Discussions

Ed DeAngelis - Leadership, Workplace Mental Health, People-first Company Culture, Psychological Safety, Burnout And Breakdown, Resilience And Recovery

Deena Kamm - Empathy, Emotional Burnout, Healing, Emotional Boundaries, Personal Transformation, Helping Children With Empathy And Emotional Intelligence

Ria - Trauma, Survival, Addiction, Crime, Redemption, Childhood Experiences, Drug Smuggling, Incarceration, Rebuilding Life And Lessons Learned

Recent Topics

Mental Health, Trauma, Burnout, Addiction, Emotional Healing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Behind Beautiful Things
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Ed: Humanity as a Strategy | 194

June 09, 2026

In this inspiring episode of Behind Beautiful Things, Kevin sits down with Ed, the owner and leader of EDA Contractors, to discuss leadership, workplace mental health, and building a people-first company culture in the construction industry.Ed shares his personal journey as a hardworking entrepreneur whose relentless drive ultimately led to a mental and physical breakdown. He opens up about the lessons he learned from burnout and how those experiences transformed both his life and his busines...

Deena: The Empowered Empath | 193

June 02, 2026

In this episode of Behind Beautiful Things, Kevin sits down with Deena Kamm, author of Lessons From the Future: STORM the Empowered Empath, for a powerful conversation about empathy, emotional burnout, healing, and personal transformation.Deena shares her childhood experiences and explains how becoming the person everyone depended on eventually led to emotional exhaustion and a personal breakdown. She opens up about the challenges faced by highly empathetic people, the importance of emotional...

Ria: Off-road Destiny | 192

May 26, 2026

On this episode of Behind Beautiful Things, Ria joins Kevin for a powerful and deeply personal conversation about trauma, survival, addiction, crime, and redemption. Ria shares the story behind her memoir, Off-road Destiny, opening up about her childhood, her mother’s suicide attempt, and growing up between Slovenia, Hungary, and Dubai.The episode dives into Ria’s descent into drug smuggling, the life-changing moment she was caught, and the reality of serving time in prison. She also reflects...

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