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Finding Your Voice Again

July 08, 2026

Her voice has filled arenas alongside legends like Pink Floyd and Sting, but the most gripping part of Machan Taylor’s story is what happened offstage. We talk about the private weight that can live behind public success: imposter syndrome, loneliness on the road, and the long echo of childhood trauma. Machan takes us back to her earliest chapters, from being born in post World War II Japan to moving to New Jersey in 1960, where identity, discrimination, and an alcoholic, emotionally unavaila...

Your Anxiety Has An Origin Story

June 24, 2026

Overthinking can look like “being responsible,” but it often feels like your brain running laps with no finish line. I sit down with therapist and life coach, Katherine Flechaus, to get honest about the patterns so many of us live in: excessive worry, people pleasing, perfectionism, and that constant background fear of being “not enough.”Katherine explains how these habits usually start as protection. A kid who learns to keep the peace, earn approval, or stay hyper-aware in relationships may ...

The Stories That Shape Us

April 15, 2026

Some stories don’t tie themselves into a neat bow. They pull you backward through memory, family, and the moments you’d rather skip, until you finally see what shaped you. That’s why I wanted to sit down with Annie Dike, author of “Clovis”, a character-driven coming-of-age novel that’s raw, funny in places, and unflinching where it counts.We talk about what’s rooted in Annie’s real life and what becomes fiction, why the book opens with Callie in a hospital bed, and how childhood instability c...