RE-Request - Katie Mack
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Katie Mack is an actress, award-winning podcast host, and all around bad ass of a person. She discusses her life growing up in Michigan and discovering an outlet in drugs and alcohol at an early age. Katie also talks about how drugs pulled her out of Michigan and into Chicago and how acting pulled her out of drugs. Katie then goes into detail about how she decided to quit drinking and the tragic cause that has driven her to train for an iron man. Check out her award-winning podcast, F*cking Sober, and follow along on Instagram at @mackersNYC and @fckingsober90_podcast and check out her acting...
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RE-Request - Don Wildman
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Don Wildman is the host of Cities of the Underworld and Mysteries at the Museum, as well as many other TV shows on the Travel Channel and the History Channel. Don discusses growing up in a family of educators and deciding to be an actor. He also talks about his early days acting in commercials and how he is the last generation of actors before the internet. Don answers questions about Cities of the Underworld and offers his perspective on how the world views America and how the country is going through a period of change. Follow Don Wildman on all social media @donwildman
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RE-Request - Eva Trapp
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Eva Trapp is a retired dancer, massage therapist, yoga practitioner, and so much more. She discusses growing up and moving around from town to town, the struggles she had with making new friends and the consistency she found in dance. Eva also talks about her work with Twyla Tharp and how getting pregnant ended her career on stage. She then discusses what's coming in the future and how your next trip to Pittsburgh could include a visit to her new business!
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RE-Request - Adam Bridgewater
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Adam Bridgewater is an artist and early-adopter of things. In this amazing episode, he discusses how others' perception of him is not reality. Justin and him bond over shared insecurities, and he talks about his journey with art and how he has turned it into a career. Adam also discusses how he paid off his student loans and how seeing insecurity in an old girlfriend helped him change how he views people as a whole.
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RE-Request - Kara Bartram
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Kara Bartram is a wife, mother, psychic medium, and MLM sales leader. Kara talks about her calling to explore and how that took her from Australia to New Zealand to London, where she ended up settling down and meeting her husband. She also discusses her views of motherhood, how woke up to her intuitive skills as a medium, and how she is becoming a leader in making women feel good about themselves through a MLM company.
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RE-Request - Alysse Bryson
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Alysse Bryson is the founder of The Sober Curator and an all around bad ass. Alysse discusses growing up in Washington and finding out at an early age she enjoys partying. She also talks about sexual assault, having a child, and getting sober. Alysse shares how she turned her random jobs in pagers and newspaper ads into a lifelong career as Director of Fun, and how she created the Sober Curator. Find out more about Alysse and The Sober Curator at and follow along on Instagram @thesobercurator and @alysseinthecity
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RE-Request - Emily Buchanan
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Emily is a two-time breast cancer survivor, social worker, and all-around amazing person. She discusses everything from giving up her son for adoption at 17 to going through two bouts of breasts cancer with multiple kids at home. Emily also talks about her relationship with her siblings and how her views on legacy and death have changed after her own struggles, as well as her work with hospice. @FriendRequestPod
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RE-Request - Aaron Bridgewater
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Aaron Bridgewater is the front man for As They Sleep. He discusses growing up in a good home and getting into trouble as a teenager. Aaron also talks about the early days of joining a band, getting signed, and touring. He talks about fatherhood, raising a daughter as a metalhead dad, and what it's like to have two grown kids.
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RE-Request - Joanie Sprague
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Joanie, former America's Next Top Model contestant, and home renovation TV personality, rekindles a friendship with Justin and discusses her upbringing in a broken home in Pittsburgh, the highs and lows of living in Los Angeles in your 20's and how all of these lessons led to her realization that she was depressed, as well as how she handled that through EMDR, therapy, and medication.
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RE-Request - Sandra Blome
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Sandra is a fun-loving school psychologist who discusses everything from trauma in high school to Black Lives Matter protests. She also talks about her divorce, getting back in touch with who she is, and what it's like being the middle sister.
info_outlineSarah Alaimo is a Career Happiness Coach, Sobriety Advocate, and a sober wofe and mother. She discusses growing up in her household as an older sister in Southern California. Sarah discusses starting therapy in high school for disordered eating, and the lack of meaningful communication in her home when she was younger. She also discusses college and how the expectations of others were the first to point her in a career direction, and how that relationship ending coincided with the beginning of partying. Sarah then discusses her career in recruiting and how that lifestyle leaned into an increased alcohol use. She then talks about getting sober and finding a writing group that inspired her to write her first book, Pearls and Probation: Adventures of an Alcoholic Good Girl.
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