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The Suffering Podcast

Kevin Donaldson

Booking Overview

Interview-driven personal development show focused on adversity, resilience, trauma, recovery, and rebuilding purpose, typically featuring guests with compelling lived experiences alongside relevant professional or advocacy expertise. PR agencies could credibly pitch authors, therapists, founders, advocates, former law-enforcement professionals, and resilience or recovery experts with transformative stories; booking difficulty is low.

Metrics

Episodes: 297

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 62.1k subscribers

Instagram: 11.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

kevinkpd@gmail.com

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Host

Kevin Donaldson - Podcast host focused on the role of adversity in personal transformation, sustainable success, and personal development.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Compelling firsthand experience overcoming significant adversity, combined with relevant expertise as a practitioner, founder, counselor, advocate, author, or public speaker.
Required Achievements:  
Founded a service, advocacy, or personal-development organization, Published a memoir or other book, Built a professional practice or coaching platform, Appeared in television, media, or public-awareness programming

Recent Guest Discussions

Linda Scarpa - Family Loyalty, Organized Crime, Trauma, Identity, Loss, And The Emotional Impact Of Growing Up In The Shadow Of Violence.

Tony Bova - Career Pressure, Relationship Failure, Personal Transformation, Family Leadership, And Helping High-achieving Men Improve Their Relationships.

Kelly Sutliff - Domestic Violence, Survivor Safety, Trauma Recovery, Advocacy, Personal Protection Dogs, And Rebuilding Independence.

Kelly Sutliff - Domestic Violence, Survivor Safety, Trauma Recovery, Advocacy, Personal Protection Dogs, And Rebuilding Independence.

Erik Malmstrom - Career Loss, Identity, Trauma, Recovery, Leadership, Family, Mental Health, And Rediscovering Purpose After Major Life Change.

Recent Topics

Adversity, Resilience, Personal Development, Trauma, Recovery

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Suffering Podcast
:

Episode 297: The Suffering of the NJ Angry Driver with Nick Goldsack

August 23, 2026

Nick Goldsack spent nearly three decades running toward danger as a firefighter. Today, he's still solving problems—just with a different set of tools. A retired Fire Captain with the Hoboken Fire Department, Nick built a career defined by leadership, resilience, and service. From responding to everyday emergencies to helping his community through major events like Superstorm Sandy and the COVID-19 pandemic, he earned a reputation for staying calm under pressure and finding solutions when peo...

Episode 296: The Suffering of a Hitman's Daughter with Linda Scarpa

August 16, 2026

Linda Scarpa grew up loving her father. The rest of the world knew him as one of the most feared men in organized crime. As the daughter of notorious Colombo crime family hit man and FBI informant Gregory Scarpa Sr., Linda lived a life few could imagine. Behind closed doors, she knew him as a devoted father and family man. Outside the home, he was a violent enforcer whose actions left a trail of fear, bloodshed, and unanswered questions. Reconciling those two realities has shaped Linda's enti...

Episode 295: The Suffering of a Homicide Detective with Tony Bova

August 09, 2026

For more than 20 years, Tony Bova served in law enforcement and emergency medical services, spending much of his career as a State Police Homicide Detective. When lives were shattered and families needed answers, Tony was the person people trusted to remain calm under unimaginable pressure. What few people saw, however, was the personal cost of carrying that responsibility. While he excelled in one of the most demanding professions imaginable, Tony struggled with the same challenges that affe...

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