Follow Your Fire Podcast

16. How to Leap into Action Toward Your Dreams

Changing your life isn’t just deciding what you want and making plans – it’s moving toward your dream imperfectly and full of fear. Leaping is taking action that risks something - like (gasp!) your pride. But how do we actually do that?

8. When Grief is Transformed: Cindi Soliz - Mother, Love Warrior, Believer in Magic

Losing a child is arguably one of the most difficult things one could experience, but Cindi’s story is not just one of pain, loss, and unending grief - it’s also a story of transformation, beauty, and the deep love of life that’s only possible when life’s preciousness is accepted alongside the risk.

7. From Difficulty and Struggle to Recovery and Resilience: Kenny Hill Sr. - Counselor, Veteran, and Addiction Survivor (Resilience Diaries #1)

The Corona Virus is no match for the human spirit.

Introducing a new (short-term) series of the podcast:

Follow Your Fire: The Resilience Diaries

In light of the difficult moment we’re in as a globe, we’ll be (briefly) turning away from the question of “what should I do with my life?” and focusing on a subsection of that question:

How do we overcome obstacles, difficulty, and the darkest points in our lives in order to move through them, recover, and find all that can lie on the other side of struggle?

6. Someday We'll All Be Ghosts: Paul Dale Roberts, Paranormal Investigator & Career Shape Shifter

What do ghosts, hauntings, and Friday the 13th have to do with figuring out what to do with your life?

Way more than I realized at the start of this interview.

Episode 4. No Epiphanies Necessary: Ilana Blasingame - Media Magician and Creative Survivor

Ilana Blasingame has a job in TV that’s dynamic, collaborative, and uniquely ties together the values that she holds in the rest of her life. Her creative childhood ideas have found purchase in her adult life, which is pretty much the dream, right?

But how did she get there, and what can we learn from her path?

Episode 3: Maslow’s Hierarchy and Career Choice - Mitch Steiger, Lobbyist & Labor Union Advocate

At the beginning of the road Mitch had many passions: climate health, animal welfare, politics, and music, just to name a few - so how did he choose a direction? Did he have to sacrifice one interest to pursue another? And what obstacles did he face on the way?

Episode 2: Making Choices and Following Childhood Dreams with Tamara Carter

As a little girl, Tamara Carter always wanted to be a lawyer - but the road to her goals looked far different than she thought it would; detours, obstacles, and changes in perspective have faced her at every turn.

Episode 1: Unexpected Turns - Curtis Buzanski, LMFT and Sage Jedi Master

Today, Curtis Buzanksi is a respected addiction and trauma therapist, but throughout his journey he's been called many other things:

Addict, criminal, trucker, poet: the road to his present day vocation was paved with unexpected turns.