Denise Winkelman: Comedian/Trans Woman/Former Pro Wrestler/Chronic Pain Sufferer
When she was growing up in conservative, evangelical rural Minnesota, she knew. When she was excelling at sports, giving and receiving body slams and folding chair hits as a pro wrestler, she knew. Ev...
25 Aug 202554min
Ashly Burch Delivers Mental Health Insight Using Puppets and Swear Words
There are plenty of places online to get very serious information on mental health, delivered in tones that are somber, sober, or very dry. Ashly Burch goes a different route on her new YouTube show, ...
18 Aug 202549min
Author/Comedian Tiffany Jenkins on Anxiety, Addiction, Felonies, Success, and Not Wanting to Exist
Because she racks up millions and millions of views for her viral comedy videos on social media, because she’s written two books including the new best-seller A Clean Mess: A Memoir of Sobriety After ...
11 Aug 202554min
We Have Two Guests This Week: Comedian Aaron Foster and His Depression
If you’ve dealt with depression, you know that it’s a disorder that speaks to you, firing off insults and terrible idea, often right in the middle of a conversation. Barges in to tear you down. We all...
4 Aug 202546min
Nurse Blake on Gay Conversion Therapy, Panic Attacks, and, Well, Nursing
To blow off steam from an incredibly stressful profession, professional nurse Blake Lynch started putting together little comedy videos on social media as “Nurse Blake”. The clips went viral and he st...
28 Juli 202544min
Gavin Rossdale of Bush on Loss, Xanax, and New Emotional Landscapes
Bush lead singer Gavin Rossdale has a lot of memories from growing up as a kid who excelled at sports but also treasured his Lou Reed records. He is also keenly aware of who left during those years: h...
21 Juli 202548min
Insomnia and Mental Health Problems: Each Horrible, Each Feeding the Other
Jen slept fine the night before she couldn’t. Just short of 29 years old and after years of excellent sleep, insomnia entered her life leading her down a years-long search for cures, treatments, or ev...
14 Juli 202549min
Prison, Addiction, Bipolar, and Four Loko with Author Brandon Stickney
Brandon Stickney remembers booze being everywhere growing up in Lockport, New York and he definitely remembers getting a taste for it growing up. Over time, he developed bipolar disorder and his subst...
7 Juli 202555min
