309: What if you gave everything to The Job?

309: What if you gave everything to The Job?

Endowed with a strong drive from a young age, a woman becomes a workaholic and marries a wonderful man with similar ambitions, but when he faces a failing project, life-long toxic work patterns come to a tragic conclusion.


Today’s episode featured Trina Colpitts. If you’d like to reach out to her, you can email at 500milesformentalhealth@gmail.com, and you can learn more about her foundation at 500milesformentalhealth.com and join their 2024 challenge.


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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Sara Marinelli


Content/Trigger Warnings: drug use, hallucination, suicide, graphic bodily injury, death, explicit language

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Intro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper

Music Bed: “Uncertain Outcomes” – SkyeVoyager

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