Getting Under The Skin
Welcome to Getting Under The Skin (GUTS)! Where the stories of our lives can be medicine for each other. Where reflection and curiosity opens up paths of conversation for us to explore together.Join us for an exploration...
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| 10/20/26 |  You Can Only Be What You Can See: Why Role Models Matter with Kevin P. Henry | Kevin P. Henry, an inclusion leader and former music journalist, shares what 70 years of racism, role models and growth have taught him. Based in Washington State, Kevin is a Behavioral Health Inclusion Specialist with Volunteers of America Western Washington and a trainer and writer through KPH Media. He helped create the City of Bellevue’s first diversity initiatives, received the MLK Medal of Distinguished Service and is completing his memoir. Kevin and Topaz talk about trauma informed care, empathy, self esteem, why people can change and how to help people see another side without telling them what to think. 🔗 Follow Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/kph.media.llc/ Chapters 0:00 Introduction 1:58 The Roller Coaster and the Triple D Years 6:02 Parents and the Siblings He Lost 9:42 Standing With the Vulnerable 12:06 Dinner With the Mannequins 17:34 Hope, Change and Same Shoes, Different Journeys 30:53 Role Models and Seeing It to Be It 35:30 Ray Charles and Being Your Own Worst Critic 46:05 Helping People See Another Side 54:50 {THE AND} Self Edition Question: Life Five Years From Now #guts #podcast #inclusion #empathy #rolemodels Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 57m 55s | ||||||
| 10/12/26 |  Letting Go of Control After Becoming Disabled at 24 | Giselle Moor | Giselle Moor is a wheelchair marathon athlete, speaker and writer based in Sydney, who became disabled at 24 and believes her disability is the least interesting thing about her. Before any of that, she was a biker and a bouncer, born into the drag racing community, taken to her first race meet at six weeks old and racing by 12. After an accident at a drag race, she now divides her life into pre wheelie G and post wheelie G. This episode of the GUTS podcast covers growing up in the drag racing community, the anger and grief of her first four years as a disabled woman, and letting go of the identity she was tethered to. It also covers quitting alcohol, how her family and partner showed up, why she believes simply taking up space changes more minds than advocacy, and the stoic ideas she carries with her. Chapters 00:00 Intro 2:14 Early Life and Biking Roots 7:10 The Accident and Emotional Evolution 12:31 Shedding Old Identities and Traveling 19:40 Family Dynamics and Relationship Support 26:53 Letting Go of Control and Building Trust 34:21 Challenging Perceptions of Disability 42:06 Embracing Emotions and Stoic Philosophy 49:14 {THE AND} Self Edition question | Try the game: https://shop.theskindeep.com/products/the-and-self-deck?variant=43647547605170 Listen & Follow GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com #gutspodcast #topazadizes #gisellemoor #wheelchairmarathon #disability #disabledathlete #identity #dragracing #stoicism #podcastinterview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 52m 48s | ||||||
| 10/5/26 |  Frequencies That Ripple Through the World | Thomas Droge | Thomas Droge is a physician of Classical Chinese Medicine, a Qigong master, an executive coach, Chief Mindfulness Officer at TIFIN and author of The Leader Within. At 18, Thomas was hiding a kilo of coke under his parents' floorboards. At 12, he watched his father survive a near death experience, and he later saw 300 strangers fill a church to honor that same man's changed life. From there his path ran through martial arts, meditation, heartbreak, a breaking point in San Francisco and years of rebuilding. Today he's spent more than thirty years practicing Daoism, Tai Chi and Qigong, founded the Pathfinder Institute and coaches leaders through his practice, Pathfinding. Thomas and Topaz talk about somatic healing, trusting your intuition, finding your purpose, compassion in action, and where we find our value as AI changes the world. 📖 The Leader Within: https://www.amazon.com.au/Leader-Within-foundational-practices-meaningful/dp/B0GV489M7D 🔗 Follow Thomas: https://www.instagram.com/thomasdroge/ Chapters 0:00 Introduction to Thomas Droge 1:23 Early Life and Father's Impact 6:05 Changing How We Live 16:47 A Wild Journey at Eighteen 25:23 Near Death Experiences and Spirituality 39:56 Martial Arts and Somatic Healing 54:55 The Breaking Point and Reconstruction 1:02:10 Cultivating the Gift of Healing 1:06:37 Compassion in Action and Community 1:17:38 Testing Beliefs and Perspectives #guts #podcast #qigong #mindfulness #leadership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 24m 18s | ||||||
| 9/28/26 |  From Sweeping Floors to Building an Empire | Gabe Orta | Gabe Orta is an award winning hospitality visionary who co-founded Bar Lab Hospitality in 2009 and helped create the award winning Broken Shaker, along with venues like 27 Restaurant, Mesiba, LilliStar, and Jolene Sound Room. Born in Colombia and raised in Miami, he was ten years old when his grandmother, father, and uncles were all killed within two weeks.This episode covers growing up around that violence, an unlikely start sweeping floors at a nightclub, and how he's turned inward in recent years, merging hospitality with ancestral practice and somatic ritual, inherited fear that isn't his own, and grief he never had time to feel. Chapters 00:00 Intro2:02 Meet Gabe Orta2:18 Redefining what service means9:14 Losing his grandmother, father, and uncles within two weeks13:13 Finding refuge in a library15:14 Tasting cocaine at eight years old21:53 Fear that isn't even his own32:00 Sweeping floors at a nightclub, and the start of a career53:15 Grief he never had time to feel55:28 Ancestral wisdom without a medicine man in the house58:42 Feeling his father's presence1:14:51 The wounds we all carry, and pass down or heal1:17:50 Pure joy, and a physical form that's finite Listen & Follow GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com #gutspodcast #topazadizes #gabeorta #generationaltrauma #immigrantstory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 20m 32s | ||||||
| 9/21/26 |  The Soul of a Troublemaker | Mariquel Waingarten | Debriana Berlin is the founder and CEO of The Future Reference, a strategic communications firm for the environment, and was previously the first yoga instructor for the United States Senate and an EPA director under the Obama administration. Before any of that, she was a competitive figure skater who learned to fall, and get back up, roughly 18,000 times per jump. This episode covers growing up in a chaotic home and finding safety in the ice rink, learning to charm and sell through watching her father, and how yoga slowly replaced transactional thinking with real presence. It also covers burning out at the EPA to the point of a thyroid diagnosis, the link between disconnection from the body and the climate crisis, and learning to live within the limits of an aging body. Chapters 00:00 Intro 1:52 Meet Debriana Berlin 2:09 The tree question, and being born brave 4:16 Watching her father charm, sell, and reinvent himself 9:41 Finding yoga her first week of college 19:14 Falling 18,000 times per jump 22:20 Her superpower, teaching yoga inside the US Senate 28:42 Embodiment, human exceptionalism, and climate change 35:54 Burning out at the EPA 37:30 The diagnosis that forced her to slow down 41:59 Ice skating across the Swedish archipelago 46:56 Dance as her first language 53:49 What keeps her up at night 56:40 What life has designed her for 1:00:36 {THE AND} Self Edition question | Try the game: https://shop.theskindeep.com/products/the-and-self-deck?variant=43647547605170 Listen & Follow GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com #gutspodcast #topazadizes #debrianaberlin #womeninbusiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 03m 42s | ||||||
| 9/14/26 |  Abundance in Love: Rebuilding a Life From Scratch | Mariquel Waingarten | Mariquel Waingarten co-founded Hickies, the no-tie shoelace brand now in over 50 countries, and built Argentina's first boutique hotel, Tailor Made Hotel, a four year TripAdvisor top performer. She's now the founder of Portal Bosque, a community built on a more conscious, human way of living. But it took losing both her parents before 25, and twenty years of running her life from fear, before she got there. In this conversation, Mariquel and Topaz talk about the "samurai" she became to survive, what her father's last words to her actually meant, and the ayahuasca journey where she finally gave that survival mode back and started building from love instead. Chapters 00:00 Intro 1:52 Meet Mariquel Waingarten 2:08 The samurai she became to survive 16:25 Building from your wound versus your gift 23:15 Hickies, the hotel, and how Portal Bosque began 33:06 The ayahuasca journey and giving back the katana 45:18 What her kids have taught her 49:18 How fear shaped Portal Bosque 53:47 Leaving the katana behind and becoming "the dancer" 59:18 {THE AND} Self Edition question | Try the game: https://shop.theskindeep.com/products/the-and-self-deck?variant=43647547605170 Listen & Follow GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com #gutspodcast #topazadizes #mariquelwaingarten #womeninbusiness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 02m 38s | ||||||
| 9/8/26 |  Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater | What happens when you spend months building real friendships with people you're about to send to prison? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Tegan Broadwater, decorated undercover operative, author of Life in the Fishbowl, and founder of a private security firm, who burned out as a jazz musician, cut his hair and became a cop, then spent nearly two years deep undercover infiltrating a Crips gang in his own city. The same city where his wife and son were waiting at home. In this episode: - Burning out as a jazz musician and becoming a cop overnight - Going deep undercover in a gang in his own city - Building real friendships with people he was about to arrest, and the emotional crash when it was all over - Why perspective is his greatest gift Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Deepening Minds with Tegan Broadwater | Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 09m 54s | ||||||
| 9/8/26 |  Saying Yes to It All with Santiago Cumplido | What happens when you say yes to everything life offers, even when it nearly destroys you? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with aSantiago Cumplido, multidisciplinary artist, composer and healer from Guadalajara, Mexico, who left home at 16 heartbroken, nearly deaf from an explosion he set off himself, and made a conscious decision to turn his heart to stone so he would never feel pain again. What followed was five degrees across four countries, singing for European royalty, and a slow, painful, beautiful unraveling of everything he built to protect himself. In this episode: - Growing up as a deeply sensitive kid in a family that loved music but had no words for what he felt - Leaving home at 16 with a broken heart, damaged ears and a decision to never cry again - How saying yes to everything took him from Mexico to London to Barcelona to Holland - The moment a therapist told him meditating his face off would change nothing - What happened when he finally stopped running from his shadow - Why being truly vulnerable is something this society will punish you for Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Saying Yes to It All with Santiago Cumplido | Getting Under the Skin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 08m 08s | ||||||
| 7/20/26 |  Imbalances in Tech, Industry and AI with Lauren Celenza (Throwback) | What if the key to navigating technology, AI and modern life is just knowing where to look for the imbalance? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Lauren Celenza, software designer and navigator of the relationship between humans and technology, who helped redesign Google Maps for communities across Indonesia, India, Nigeria and Brazil, and built the free tax filing tool that saved Americans over $90 million. But the conversation goes much deeper than tech. In this episode: - Growing up with a dad shaped by de-industrialization and what that taught her about work - Why it's a radical act to love family members with different political views - The biggest imbalances she sees in AI right now and who holds the power - What it means to be part of the last generation that remembers life before the internet - Independence vs interdependence and why that distinction matters more than ever - What her dad told her about finding a career that won't consume you Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 👉 Mentioned in this episode: • Monika Jiang’s “Sharing Our Loneliness” — https://www.monikajiang.org/sharing-our-loneliness • Inside the beloved IRS Direct File tool — and why it’s under threat — https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/06/direct-file-beloved-its-users-internal-irs-report-says/405883/?oref=ng-homepage-riverand • Why Direct File is now open-source (and what that means) — https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-irs-tax-filing-software-turbotax-is-trying-to-kil/ • On deindustrialisation and its lasting impact on working-class communities — https://inthesetimes.com/article/deindustrialization-offshoring-manufacturing-factory-factories-unemployment-layoff-work-labor-workers-working-people-working-class-industry-ohio-michigan-south-carolina-pepsi-gm Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@guts.podcast LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 12m 34s | ||||||
| 7/13/26 |  Turning Trauma Into Truth with Tracey Arcabasso Smith | What if your life’s purpose was to break the silence that held your family together? In this episode of Getting Under the Skin, Topaz sits down with artist and filmmaker Tracey Arcabasso Smith (she/her), whose documentary Relative explores the generational trauma of sexual abuse in her family, and the healing that followed. Tracey shares: - The spiritual shifts that helped her redefine “mother” - Why the courage to speak out didn’t feel like a choice - How she balances her corporate leadership with a deep commitment to inner truth - The tension between healing, parenting, and staying clear in a world full of pain From vulnerability to visionary leadership, Tracey invites us to look within and reflect on what we’re really here to do. What has life designed you for? Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 23m 22s | ||||||
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| 6/29/26 |  We Need Each Other to See Ourselves with Ashley Wick | What if the life you've been building has been quietly asking you to slow down and find out who you actually are? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Ashley Wick, transformational coach and founder of Fertile Ground, who spent her childhood shapeshifting between groups she never quite belonged to, 15 years in PR and fashion helping brands find their essence while losing her own, and then at 30, made a phone call that changed everything. In this episode: Growing up as a floater, never quite belonging to any one group Fifteen years in PR learning to shape narratives and what that cost her The phone call she made at 30 to the person who abused her in childhood Handing her three-day-old daughter over for open heart surgery and finding pure surrender How moving to Uruguay is teaching her to shed everything she leaned on Why the question is never "can I do it?" but "who am I becoming if I do?" Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 🎙️ Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt, out now on GUTS: Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 14m 35s | ||||||
| 6/22/26 |  Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt | What does it cost to spend a lifetime doing what you believe in, while the world decides whether it agrees? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Joseph Gerstandt, Desert Storm veteran, poet, and one of America's most trusted voices on diversity and inclusion, who grew up on a farm in Iowa convinced that emotions were a distraction. He spent years in corporate America lying awake at night dreading work, certain the problem was him. It wasn't. In this episode: - Growing up stoic on a farm and spending decades emotionally behind the curve - How working in HIV prevention cracked his world open and changed everything - What it's like being a white man doing DEI work for 18 years as the field gets politicized - Why he believes the world needs better questions more than better answers - The quiet admission that he still struggles to feel worthy of love Welcome to Getting Under The Skin, where genuine curiosity guides honest, human to human exchanges about how we are shaped by the lives we've lived. 🎙️ Resist Much, Obey Little with Joseph Gerstandt, out now on GUTS: Getting Under the Skin. Listen now: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 57m 54s | ||||||
| 6/15/26 |  Show Up and Show Out with Jess Russ | What happens when you win the thing you've been working toward your whole life and it terrifies you? In this episode of GUTS, we sit down with Jess Russ, Grammy award-winning songwriter, creative, and athlete, who grew up in Alabama with Goodwill clothes and $5 to everyone else's hundred. She learned early how to show up and show out. But at 27, she's asking a harder question: what happens when showing up starts to cost you everything?In this episode: - Growing up Black in the South, showing up in rooms she was never handed access to - How winning a Grammy at 27 became a double-edged sword - Why her biggest failures have been relational, not professional - The fear of being considered but never chosen - What it really means to give yourself permission before anyone else does Listen to GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 04m 06s | ||||||
| 6/8/26 |  Uncovering the Truth Behind a Legendary Life with Dr. Ichak Adizes | What if your greatest strength came from your deepest wound?In this unscripted and deeply human conversation, Dr. Ichak Adizes, one of the world's most influential business thinkers, opens up to his son, filmmaker and host Topaz Adizes, in a raw dialogue about love, aging, grief, legacy, and healing. In this conversation, we explore: - What he regrets passing down to his children and what he's proud to have given - How a childhood without love became the fuel for global impact - Why success was never about achievement, but about being loved - What aging feels like when time no longer feels endless - The paradox of gaining wisdom while losing memory 🔗 Learn more about Dr. Adizes and his work https://www.adizes.com/ 📖 Read his autobiography, The Accordion Player https://publications.adizes.com/products/the-accordion-player-english __________________________________________________________________________ 👉 Follow us on social media: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@guts.podcast LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 42m 42s | ||||||
| 6/1/26 |  Descaling the Dragon with Daryn Reicherter | What if the worst thing that could happen to you isn't death, but stopping your growth? What if the worst thing that could happen to you isn't death, but stopping your growth? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Daryn Reicherter, Stanford professor of psychiatry and the man courts call when they need to put a dollar value on human suffering. From his grandfather escaping a Nazi work camp in Holland to briefing the UN Security Council on trauma and ISIS, Daryn has spent decades translating the language of human suffering into something courts and governments can actually act on. In this episode: - The grandfather who survived a Nazi work camp and never spoke about it - Why trauma psychology was invisible in courts until 2011 - The moment all ego disappeared saving his best friend from drowning - The camel, the lion, and the dragon you have to slay to become yourself - What happens when you take Stanford freshmen to Leland Stanford's grave - Why the worst thing that could happen isn't death Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 57m 12s | ||||||
| 5/25/26 |  Joy On Ten with Kristen V. Carter | What happens when you've spent 20 years fighting for what's yours, and then realize that was never even the game? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Kristen V. Carter, fifth-generation creative, executive producer, TV show runner turned educator, who hit a moment of total honesty at 38 and said something she had never said before: I am not happy. What followed was a complete reorientation, guided by one rule: if the joy isn't on 10, it's out. In this episode, we explore: - Fifth generation roots and the ancestors she carried with her - A boarding school year that nearly broke her - Fighting for your seat vs. living from joy - The joy-on-10 litmus test - Generational healing before you pass anything down Since recording, Kristen has tripled enrollment at the Hofstra LA Semester Program, now bringing 35 students to Hollywood in 2027, and is launching The Activation Collective, her 8-week professional accelerator for creatives ready to level up. Follow Kristen: https://www.instagram.com/kristenvcarter/reels/ Follow her podcast 'Trust Your Magic': https://www.instagram.com/trustyourmagic/ www.kristenvcarter.com _____________________________________________________________________ Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 06m 39s | ||||||
| 5/18/26 |  Unlocking the Healing of ALS: Facing Fear & Finding Joy with Aaron Lazar | What happens when the body breaks down but the spirit refuses to follow? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Aaron Lazar, Broadway star, actor, and division one athlete, who was diagnosed with ALS and chose to face it not with force or fear, but with radical joy and presence. Through stories from his career, his recovery, and his daily 20 foot walks between a wheelchair and a chair, Aaron reveals what it really means to show up for yourself from a place of love instead of will. In this episode, we explore: - Growing up with a Jewish mother who taught him the power of a handwritten note - Navigating hundreds of rejections in Hollywood while losing his heart for the craft - What ALS forced him to confront about patterns, energy and self-abandonment - The difference between hammering through life and moving from joy - How shifting your inner state changes your physical reality - What it means to find magic in washing your own hands Listen to GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com #gutspodcast #aaronlazar #topazadizes #ALSawareness #healingjourney #mindsetshift #radicalacceptance #purposedriven #deepconversationpodcast #joyandfear #selfhealing #presenceoverperformance #Broadway #neuraldisease #unlockinghealing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 09m 00s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 |  To Feel Seen: Building Community & Finding Purpose with Sugary | What happens when the person who makes everyone feel seen has never felt it himself? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Gary Su, known as Sugary, a cultural curator who built a community of 30,000 people in New York City and nearly lost his life doing it. After a health crisis landed him in the ICU last August, Sugary had to confront the one person he had never really shown up for: himself. In this episode, we explore: - Growing up as the only child of Taiwanese immigrants - How bullying became the birthplace of a superpower - Building a city's community while practicing self-abandonment - The ICU moment that forced a hard reset - What it means to finally feel seen from the inside out - Connection, healing, and learning to receive what you give Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 11m 22s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 |  The Game of Serendipity with Lue Kraltchev | What if the story you're telling about someone else is the wall keeping you from ever reaching them? In this episode of GUTS, Topaz Adizes sits down with Lue Kraltchev, culture strategist, polyglot, and doctoral researcher who spent 30 years in corporate hospitality studying what actually breaks people apart at work and at the table. Her answer? The narratives we carry about each other, mostly without knowing it. In this episode: The lavender moment that made her go back and get the girl she left behind Why the stories leaders tell about their people create divides no training can fix How warmth isn't something you perform, it's something you design What hospitality taught her about the biology of belonging Why AI always lands in the danger zone of storytelling Gathering people around stories of meaning Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 15m 30s | ||||||
| 4/27/26 |  Be Like the Bamboo with Iván Saldaña | What happens when the most productive thing you can do is learn to bend? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Ivan Saldaña, PhD biologist, master distiller, and co-founder of Casa Lumbre. After years building brands at the intersection of biology, culture, and commerce, Ivan has arrived at a new chapter, one that asks him to look inward as fiercely as he has always looked outward. In this episode, we explore: - Growing up in a household where storytelling was survival - Why agaves only become extraordinary under restriction - Building brands rooted in biology, not mythology - What it means to lead a growing team through your own transformation - Moving from achievement to legacy, and learning to teach what you know Listen to GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 04m 20s | ||||||
| 4/20/26 |  Different Types of Love with Shan Boodram | What happens when you reach the top and it still doesn't feel like enough? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Shan Boodram, board-certified sexologist, bestselling author, and one of the most recognized voices in modern intimacy. After more than a decade of building a career around human connection, Shan hit a wall, a moment of hyper-isolation that forced her to question everything she had been running toward, and whether she had actually been running away from something deeper. Through stories from her upbringing, her marriage, her creative work, and her relationship with social media, Shan opens up about the tension between needing validation and finding genuine purpose, and what it looks like to finally explore the different types of love that were missing from her life. In this episode, we explore: - Growing up with immigrant parents and professional caregivers - The sediments that shape a life - Intimacy, desire, and building a body of work - Social media, discardability, and the fear of being forgotten - Finding meaning beyond performance - What it looks like to stop running and start living Listen to GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 54m 38s | ||||||
| 4/13/26 |  Approve of Oneself with Mitchell Goldman | What happens when you realise no one is coming to save you, and you have to face yourself? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Mitchell Goldman to unpack the moment everything shifted. From a breaking point in front of the mirror to confronting suicidal thoughts, Mitchell shares how he stopped seeking validation and took responsibility for his own life. This conversation explores identity, self-perception, and what it really means to approve of yourself. If you’ve ever felt stuck in your own patterns or disconnected from who you are, this episode offers a direct perspective on doing the inner work and rebuilding from within. In this episode, they explore: • The mirror moment that changed everything • Suicidal thoughts and self-confrontation • Taking responsibility for your own life • Approval vs external validation • Identity and self-perception • Healing from within Listen to GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 58m 52s | ||||||
| 4/6/26 |  Starting From Victory With Pastor Tim Johnson | What does it mean to stop proving yourself and start living with purpose, identity, and faith? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Pastor Timothy Johnson, a former NFL player turned pastor, to explore the shift from performance-driven success to a purpose-driven life. Through stories of football, fatherhood, and spiritual growth, Timothy unpacks how chasing validation can disconnect us from who we truly are and what it looks like to start from victory instead of striving for it. This conversation explores identity, self-worth, faith, and mindset, from navigating fatherlessness to redefining success beyond achievement. If you’ve ever felt stuck chasing goals that don’t fulfill you, this episode offers a grounded perspective on purpose, belief, and living with intention. In this episode, they explore: • Finding purpose vs chasing success • Identity and self-worth • Faith and personal growth • Growing up without a father • Control vs surrender mindset • Overcoming the need for validation Listen to GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 58m 57s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 |  What to Do With What You Have with Susan Asiyanbi | What does it really mean to show up for others and why do we struggle to do it consistently? In this episode of GUTS, host Topaz Adizes sits down with Susan Asiyanbi, a leader working at the intersection of relationships, culture, and organizational change. Susan reflects on how her parents’ values shaped her understanding of service, community, and the belief that every day offers a chance to try again. Through stories of grief, friendship, and personal evolution, Susan challenges the idea that we are “good friends” by default. She explores the gap between how we see ourselves and how we actually show up, the tension between independence and community, and why relationships require more honesty than we’re comfortable with. From navigating loss to redefining what it means to give without expectation, this conversation exposes the complexity of connection. Together, they explore: • Why we’re not always the friends we think we are • The difference between giving freely and giving with expectation • How grief shifts perspective and what actually matters • Why asking for help is uncomfortable but necessary • The tension between independence and needing a village • What it means to be complete but not resolved Listen GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 08m 36s | ||||||
| 3/23/26 |  Strong, Kind, Confident & Resilient with Luis Velasquez | What does it mean to choose your life, even when everything feels stacked against you? In this episode of GUTS, Topaz Adizes sits down with Luis Velasquez, executive coach, Stanford leadership facilitator, and author of Ordinary Resilience. This is a conversation about resilience that isn’t performative. It’s lived. Through stories of survival, identity, fatherhood, and near breaking points, Luis unpacks how reframing reality can become a tool for transformation and how the smallest shifts in perspective can change everything. In this episode, they explore: • Why resilience is built through choice, not circumstance • The difference between fearlessness and fearing less • How identity shapes behavior and long term growth • Reframing pain into purpose and forward movement • Parenting, legacy, and what it means to truly prepare your children for life _____________________________________________________________________ Listen GUTS: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1GSiahH3NYTiFKZ4mIGQnJ?si=fce013635cfa4947 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-under-the-skin/id1821276933 Follow GUTS: Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/guts.podcast/ LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/topazadizes/ Subscribe for updates: topazadizes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 03m 20s | ||||||
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