The Season 3 Recap

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Season 3 of Podcaster Stories has just wrapped, and my

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guests in this season shared incredible stories about overcoming adversity,

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difficult times in their lives, and much more. In this

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episode, I'm going to take a recap of these guests

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and share their stories with you. In episode one, Fitz

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Koehler of The Fitness Show, and author of the book

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My Noisy Cancer Comeback, shared how her life changed when

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she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and how she used

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that as a starting point for her inspiring fight against

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it.

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Nobody told me XYZ was going to happen. So they

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tell you up front with chemo, Oh, you might feel

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sick and you might be extra tired and you might

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be bald. Nobody tells you that your eyes may change

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colors or that your fingernails may rot out while on

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your hands and stink to high hell. Nobody told me

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any of those things. So as the accumulation of side

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effects became the size of a mountain, I kept.. It

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turned humorous. You know, it was one of those things

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where I thought, holy crap, this is so funny.

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In episode two, I spoke with Roman Mironov of the

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Be Version 2.0 of Yourself podcast. Roman talked about his

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work as a personal relationship coach and the importance of

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defining what's healthy and not healthy in your relationships.

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Oh, you know, when you see masturbation in it of

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itself is oftentimes there's not a real problem. The problem

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is that when you rewire your brain to associate sexual

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pleasure with porn and your hand, rather than normal sex,

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and because many people start with this, you start this

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habit in teenage years, it becomes so ingrained that it's

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so difficult to get it out of their head later.

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So I always encourage parents to have this conversation about

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masturbation as, as early as possible.

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Episode three saw me talking with my wife, Jaclyn Brown,

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co-host of the Mental Health and Us podcast. Jaclyn shared

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her 20 year battle with anxiety and depression, as well

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as the effect an abusive childhood had on her adult

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life.

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I did draw a little bit from my childhood and

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I was thinking about, I was thinking about this. I

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was kind of prepared to answer this question and I

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didn't really know which way I wanted to go with

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it because there are things that I definitely pulled from

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my childhood and I put into that book. But for

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the most part, I, I wrote about the life that

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I may have wanted at that time when surviving the

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abuse. So I was acknowledging that the abuse was there,

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but, but I, I wish that it may have gotten

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a little differently.

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In episode four, John Adams of the DadPodUK podcast joined

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me to speak about his experiences as a stay at

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home dad for the last 10 years. And how Covid

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has changed today's generation of kids.

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This is a generation that is never going to work

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9-to-5 in an office or workplace, you know, they're just

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going to be, "Hang on, I could be schooled remotely.

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Why can't I, why can't I work remotely? And also

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the online etiquette skills that these kids are developing are

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going to be second to none. I was talking to

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another dad about it the other day that they, you

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know, the, with all the experiences they are getting there,

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probably going to be better then the most adults or

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a meet, you know, that those kids that have just

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left the university, they spent so much time online. That's

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just what they do.

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In episode five, communications pro Paul Sutton of the Digital

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Download podcast shared some very personal stories about his journey

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with mental health and the dark places he visited as

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a younger man. He also shared how he's become an

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advocate for mental health discussions in the workplace.

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Yes. I think everyone has to take some time, sometimes

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you just think, Oh, you know what? I know there

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were certain times in my life where it sucked. It

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really sucked, but look where I am now. So I,

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I think, I think you're right. And I'm sure you,

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you've got things in your life as well, where you

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look back and go, what do you know what that

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was a bad time, but I have grown as a

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person and in my life when everything else that's come

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on, I mean, you know, you've got kids and a

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wife and things, and you must think the same thing

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at times. And I think that's a valuable thing to

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do.

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James Perdue, host of the Professor of Perseverance podcast, joined

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me in episode six, where he talked about being paralyzed

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at age 19 and the sacrifices he and his parents

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made to ensure he lived the fullest life he could.

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Instantaneously. I was paralyzed. So I was told I would

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never walk again, possibly not move from the neck down.

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And, later on doctors advised my family to put me

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in a nursing home at the age of 19, because

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that'd be too much of a burden for them to

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provide care for. And so you can imagine 19, someone's

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going into a nursing home. I mean, I understand that

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it happens, but it's just hard to believe something like

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that goes on.

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In episode seven, Steven Webb of the Stillness in the

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Storms podcast was incredibly open about his life struggles, from

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parents divorcing when he was very young to a life

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changing accident, and how he used that to forge a

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positive mindset that everyone can learn from.

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But it is certainly, it gives you a perspective of,

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you know, if you've got nothing and you lose everything,

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you already know that you can lose everything and be

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okay. Even at that doorway, when I was crying, you

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know, I had no money, I had in in effect,

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I had nothing. I didn't even have my ability to

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move a foot forward and being 40 years old, literally

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bawling your eyes out in front of the public on

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a sunny Saturday afternoon... You don't go much lower than

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that.

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In the final episode of season three, Lainey Cameron of

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the Best of Women's Fiction podcast spoke about her experiences

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of being the only female senior executive in the tech

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world and the toxic masculinity that inspired her to write

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a book drawing from these experiences.

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And I actually mentioned in the, in the author's note

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that there was an example of something that I experienced

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frequently in tech, which is meetings happening at a strip

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strip clubs, where the guys we've been in, in a

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meeting all afternoon. And they say, lets take this meeting

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to this strip club and your face with this horrible

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decision as a woman of like, you're either going to

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say, you know, no hell no, in which case you're

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that person, and now you were like out of it

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because they're going to go anyway. So now you're out

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of the meeting or you're going to go and have

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the most awkward business meeting in the history of reality

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where some woman is wiggling her tits and ass over

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you while you're trying to have a business conversation. Or

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you were kind of going to make a joke of

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it and try to be one of the guys, but

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not kind of, it's horrible.

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It's just a horrible, horrible situation because there's no good

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answer in that scenario other than don't do it, don't

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suggest it, it's a stupid idea. But that was an

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example of something I took out of the book because

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I just thought people are not going to believe that

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actually happens, even though it happened to me four or

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five times over my career.

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Thanks for listening to Season 3 of Podcaster Stories. I

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hope you enjoyed listening to these episodes as much as

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but I'll be back with Season 4 at the beginning

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of June. Until then, stay safe and take care.