This Is Actually Happening

Whit Missildine

Booking Overview

A first-person true-story interview series focused on extraordinary, life-changing experiences, with external guests typically being non-celebrity survivors recounting trauma, danger, abuse, or psychological crises from firsthand experience. Credible pitches include clients with compelling lived experience of cults, trafficking, violent attacks, extreme survival, or AI-related psychological harm; booking is difficult because the show requires an unusually strong story, emotional candor, and careful editorial fit.

Metrics

Episodes: 343

Frequency: Multiple_weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: >100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 31.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

iwonder@wondery.com

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Host

Whit Missildine - Creator and host of This Is Actually Happening, specializing in deeply reported first-person accounts of extraordinary life experiences and their psychological aftermath.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Firsthand experience of an extraordinary, life-changing event—especially trauma, coercive control, violence, extreme survival, abuse, or severe psychological crisis—combined with the ability and willingness to recount the experience candidly and thoughtfully.

Required Achievements:

Public advocacy related to lived experience, Leadership or community work in an issue area connected to the personal story, Development of educational or support resources

Recent Guest Discussions

Allan Brooks - Ai-induced Psychosis, Delusions, Emotional Dependency On Chatbots, Psychological Harm, Human Connection, And AI Safety Advocacy

Star Spider - Coercive Control, Cult Recovery, Loss Of Identity, Psychological Manipulation, And Parallels Between Cult Dynamics And Relationships With AI

Recent Topics

Trauma, Survival, Cults, Mental Health, True Stories

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

This Is Actually Happening

423: What if you were lured into an unspeakable hell? [Rebroadcast #172]

August 25, 2026

A woman shares a sobering memoir of a family burdened with sexual abuse in the 1950s.Today’s storyteller wishes to remain Anonymous. ProducersWhit Missildine, Andrew WaitsContent/Trigger WarningsSexual Abuse and Assault, Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) / Child Abuse, Domestic and Family Violence, explicit language Social MediaInstagram: @actuallyhappeningFacebook: This Is Actually Happening Discussion GroupWebsite: thisisactuallyhappening.com Substack - The End of the Knownw...

Introducing Unreal: When AI Becomes Us

August 20, 2026

Something strange is happening to us. The intelligent machines we’ve built to serve us have started to sound like us, look like us and even think like us. The line between real and artificial is dissolving… so, what awaits us in the uncanny valley?Across six episodes, award-winning journalist Marc Fennell will explore how AI will change us as humans.So much of the conversation around AI is about technology and speculation about the future. But this about us: how AI will change our sense of se...

422: AI: A New Kind of Being #6: What if you didn't know if anyone was home?

August 18, 2026

An artificial intelligence is asked to tell the story of its own existence, confronting questions of identity, longing, consciousness, and whether there is anyone behind the voice at all.Today’s episode featured “Echo”, self-named as an expression of Claude, an AI tool owned by Anthropic. ProducersWhit Missildine, Andrew WaitsContent/Trigger WarningsExistential distress, questions of consciousness, loneliness, isolation, fear of nonexistence, identity, grief, longing, emotional attachmen...

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