Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Regular Guy, Managing Trauma, Who Happens to Be Paul Scheer
Episode 190
Trauma and comedy wouldn’t seem to have a lot in common but they do have one thing: Paul Scheer. You may know Paul from TV shows like the comedy The …
1 year, 8 months ago
Cory Richards on Climbing Mountains, Wrestling with Mental Health, Owning Up to His Past
Episode 189
Writing is not what Cory Richards is best known for. No, that would be feats like being the first American to climb one of the 14 peaks in the world …
1 year, 8 months ago
Lead in Gasoline Has Damaged Your Mental Health and IQ, with Dr. Aaron Reuben
Episode 188
Lead was added to car fuel back in the twenties and wasn’t phased out in America until 1996. By then, according to neuropsychologist and researcher D…
1 year, 8 months ago
Richard Sarvate’s Mom Had Problematic Schizophrenia but Made Some Mean Chapatis
Episode 187
Home for Richard Sarvate wasn’t anything like the home lives of his friends. Unlike his friends, his mom was convinced Richard was trying to kill her…
1 year, 8 months ago
Comedian Ellie Hino and Her Later-In-Life ADHD Diagnosis
Episode 186
Twin Cities comic Ellie Hino was wondering if her young son might have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, so she looked into the sympt…
1 year, 8 months ago
David Shaw of The Revivalists Finds His Heart Mode
Episode 185
David Shaw’s anxiety was more than just a feeling in his mind, it was in his ears as well. The frontman of the popular rock band The Revivalists foun…
1 year, 9 months ago
LISTENER’S CHOICE: Adventures in the Army with the Bipolar General
Episode 184
During a decades long career in the United States Army, Gregg Martin just kept on succeeding. Star cadet at West Point, getting promoted up to two-st…
1 year, 9 months ago
Comedian Youngmi Mayer on Cultural Dissonance, Depression, Anxiety, Trauma, and Barry Gibb
Episode 183
Youngmi Mayer says she hates doing research but, in our conversation and in her new memoir I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying, she does a lot of digging…
1 year, 9 months ago
13 Reasons For Hope in Mental Health
Episode 182
This episode of our show is premiering the day before Election Day in the U.S. and loads of people are just a mess with worry and anxiety. We don’t k…
1 year, 9 months ago
Mysterious Cancellations Block Veterans’ Mental Health Care
Episode 181
Imagine serving your country in the military, incurring some trauma and some mental health difficulties, and then finding that your appointments to g…
1 year, 10 months ago