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  • How to advocate for yourself, understand labs, and build a hopeful plan. In this episode of Hope Comes to Visit, Dr. Deb Muth joins me to talk about the gap between “you’re fine” and actually feeling well. We cover misdiagnosis in women, the difference between normal and optimal lab ranges, hormone patterns that masquerade as “just aging,” and practical ways to reduce everyday exposures. Dr. Deb also shares her personal journey from a frightening MS label to a full reversal by addressing infections, mold/mycotoxins, and toxins.

    Seen at Last with Dr. Deb Muth: Women’s Health, Functional Medicine, and Finding Answers

  • Pull up a chair and take a breath—then ask the question most of us avoid: who gets a seat at your table, and why? In this solo episode, I treat your table as a living metaphor for your energy, time, and love—and names what it takes to protect that sacred space without apology.

    Who Gets a Seat at Your Table? Curating Your Life with Clarity, Care, and Courage

  • Humor doesn’t just make us laugh—it hands us the mic. In this episode, Dr. Gina Barreca—award-winning professor, cultural critic, and bestselling author of Gina School—shows how wit turns grief into agency and outsiderhood into belonging. From losing her mother young to pioneering gender-and-humor studies, Gina traces the path where jokes become bridges and stories transform shame into connection.

    Back to School: Dr. Gina Barreca on Hope, Grief and How Laughter Gives Us the Mic

  • What if hope isn’t “it’ll be fine,” but “I can handle what comes”? That shift changed everything for Candice Suarez. In this conversation, Candice takes us inside a whirlwind season: a misread ulcer during COVID, a tongue-cancer diagnosis, surgery removing over half her tongue, a forearm graft, and weeks of radiation and chemo. She walks us through recovery’s gritty middle—managing pain, relearning to swallow, and returning to public speaking with a voice that invites the world to lean in.

    Planning in Pencil: Candice Suarez’s Life Drafting After Tongue Cancer

  • What happens when you treat curiosity like a business plan and community like your bottom line? Maxine Clark—founder of Build-A-Bear and the force behind St. Louis’s Delmar Divine—talks about creating brands that hold people, not just products. We explore the question that keeps opening doors for her: “How can I help?” and the multiplier that guides her work—1+1=100.

    Build-A-Bear, Build-A-City: Maxine Clark on Curiosity, Business & Belonging

  • Entrepreneur and dad Richie Treadway joins me to talk about becoming a parent later in life, the moment everything fell apart—and the choice to keep going.  We don’t relive every detail; we sit with what it took to advocate, to grieve, and to try again.  Richie names the kind of love that “changes the way your heart works,” and defines hope as the resilience to not quit against all odds. 

    Against All Odds: Fatherhood, Loss, and Hope with Richie Treadway

  • When Bellamy Young’s father was diagnosed with cirrhosis in his 50s, her family thought they’d reached the end of the road. What they didn’t know then: liver disease can affect the brain. As her dad began to change—memory slips, getting lost on familiar routes—the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) finally named what they were living.

    Bellamy Young on Caregiving, Liver Disease & the Freedom Beyond Shame

  • “I was doing what everybody told me to do… he can make eye contact and have a conversation—he can’t be autistic.” Today, certified Master Life Coach and writer Karen Kossow gets real about the three-year journey to her son’s diagnosis—and what it means to parent neurodivergent kids while discovering your own neurodivergence. As part of the sandwich generation, Karen is supporting her children, noticing patterns in older family members, and learning herself—often all at once.

    The Language of Neurodivergence — Not What Autism “Looks Like”: Parenting, Self-Care & Community with Karen Kossow

  • What happens when a woman’s pain is dismissed at one of the most vulnerable moments of her life? For Jenny Hoffman, it nearly cost her everything. Just hours after giving birth to her daughter, Jenny hemorrhaged internally while medical staff brushed off her repeated cries for help. “I kept saying it really hurt,” she remembers, as Motrin was offered while she was losing over two liters of blood. In this raw and powerful conversation, Jenny and I uncover the haunting parallels in our own birth experiences — moments of crisis where women’s instincts were ignored until it was almost too late.

    Story of Strength: Jenny Hoffmann on Birth Trauma, Advocacy, and Transforming Pain into Purpose

  • For Brian Franklin, loss came in waves — the suicide of a childhood friend, a colon cancer scare, the discovery of a benign brain tumor, his wife’s breast cancer diagnosis, and the sudden heart attack of his closest confidant. At times, the weight of it all was nearly unbearable. Yet Brian’s story isn’t defined by tragedy. It’s defined by his remarkable capacity to reinvent.

    A Statement of Intent: Brian Franklin on Grief, Reinvention, and Finding Joy in Small Moments

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