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Adoption: The Brothers He Never Knew He Needed
Jun 28, 2026
1h 00m 22s
Adoption: The Chapter You Thought Was Finished
Jun 24, 2026
56m 38s
Survival as a Calling: The Boy Who Decided to Get Up
Jun 21, 2026
59m 10s
Survival Into Service: The Night a Dog Changed Everything
Jun 17, 2026
56m 25s
The Hero's Journey: Finding Yourself in the Story You Already Lived
Jun 14, 2026
53m 14s
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| 6/28/26 | ![]() Adoption: The Brothers He Never Knew He Needed | Some questions live quietly inside us for so long that we forget they're there. Not because they don't matter, but because we've learned to keep moving without an answer. That's where this episode begins. T. Alex Blum was adopted as an infant into a privileged East Coast family. He always knew he was adopted. It just wasn't something anyone talked about. And so he carried that sealed envelope through decades of building a career, raising kids, and making a full life, never quite realizing the weight of what he was holding. Then, in 2019, a message arrived on 23andMe. His niece. And behind her, three full biological brothers he'd never known existed. What followed wasn't a dramatic unraveling. It was something quieter, and somehow more profound. It felt like relief. Like a question finally exhaling. What You'll Hear: Why Alex grew up knowing he was adopted but never feeling permission to ask about it The moment holding his newborn son became the first time he understood what it meant to be biologically connected to someone How a single 23andMe message unlocked three brothers and a whole new sense of belonging What it felt like to gain three best friends overnight, later in life when that kind of connection is hardest to find The parallel lives he and his brothers lived, growing up in the same part of the country without ever knowing the other existed What writing his memoir taught him about saying less and being honest Guest Bio: T. Alex Blum grew up in New York City, attended boarding school, and built a long career in commercial TV production and marketing consulting. He and his wife Andrea run a consulting firm in San Diego and have a blended family of five kids. His memoir, An Accident of Birth, explores his experience as an adoptee and the unexpected discovery of three biological brothers. It was released in May 2025. Find him at talexblum.com. Listen and follow: www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com/follow Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thelifeshiftpodcast.beehiiv.com/ --- adoptee identity, biological siblings, 23andMe discovery, adoption and belonging, finding family later in life, sealed adoption records, late-life connection, DNA relatives, untethered feeling, origin story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 00m 22s | ||||||
| 6/24/26 | ![]() Adoption: The Chapter You Thought Was Finished | Maybe you've always known something was a little off, like there was a frequency everyone else could tune into that you just couldn't quite find. Rob Lynch felt that from the time he was a kid, a quiet, persistent sense of difference that he couldn't name. When he was eleven, a Brady Bunch episode and a careless comment to his mother unlocked a secret his family had kept since the beginning. He was adopted. For decades, Rob absorbed that truth and moved on. He built a life, raised kids, wrote a novel, loved people, lost people. The adoption became background noise, something other people found more interesting than he did. But then lockdown arrived, his daughter did a DNA test, and a stranger reached out through a genealogy website. The message was simple: I think I'm your first cousin. And the thread, once pulled, didn't stop. What followed was three Sundays of pacing, a phone call he almost didn't make, and a voice on the other end that said: I looked for you for so long. Can you ever forgive me? Have you had a good life? This episode sits with what it means to find a missing piece, and whether the shape of your life changes once you finally hold it. What You'll Hear: The night Rob found out he was adopted at eleven years old, and why his mother finally told him How being a late discovery adoptee shaped (and didn't shape) his sense of self The DNA test, the stranger's message, and the daughter who changed everything Three Sundays of almost making a phone call, and what it felt like when he finally did His biological mother's first words to him, and how he responded What a warm, careful relationship with a new family looks like years later Guest Bio: Rob Lynch is an author, mental health advocate, and animal rights supporter based near Toronto, Canada. His debut novel, Vudon Caliber, is available on Amazon. He is a passionate music fan, film lover, and someone who believes, along with Ted Lasso, that we are never finished versions of ourselves. You can reach him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/official_voudoncaliber/. Listen and follow: www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com/follow Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thelifeshiftpodcast.beehiiv.com/ --- adoption identity, biological mother reunion, late discovery adoptee, DNA ancestry test, finding birth parents, adoptee mental health, lockdown genealogy, belonging and identity, family secrets, recovery and healing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 56m 38s | ||||||
| 6/21/26 | ![]() Survival as a Calling: The Boy Who Decided to Get Up | Some people spend their whole lives searching for the thing that animates them. Rich Harwood found it the hard way. He was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in 1960 and told he had three to five years to live. His family went on a death watch. Doctors called him a lemon. He grew up in hospital beds, learning early what it felt like to be invisible, manhandled, spoken about but never spoken to. What Rich did with all of that is not a story about triumph over adversity in the bumper-sticker sense. It's quieter and more honest than that. He decided, at eight years old, to stop calling for his parents in the night. Not out of bitterness. Because watching them fall apart hurt him more than the fever did. That decision became the seed of everything that followed, a life built around seeing people, hearing them, and refusing to let dignity be a thing you have to earn. Nearly forty years ago, Rich started the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation. Today it operates in fifty states and forty countries. His work is about bridging divides, restoring belief in one another, and helping communities come together and actually get things done. The line from that sick little boy watching a clock tick through the night to the work he does today is not a straight one. But it is a direct one. What You'll Hear: The moment at age eight when Rich stopped calling for his parents in the night, and what that act of compassion cost him How repeated chronic illness shaped his understanding of dignity, invisibility, and what it means to truly be seen The story of Mr. Rivers, a coach who changed the game schedule for one Jewish kid and saved a life in the process What Rich believes is the direct line between his childhood in hospital beds and the community work he does today The burning bush, and why Rich returns to that image every single day when the work feels impossible How getting in motion became his survival strategy at 4:28 in the morning, and why it still is at sixty-five Guest Bio: Rich Harwood is the founder and president of the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping communities bridge divides, build shared responsibility, and restore belief in one another. He started the organization at twenty-seven, when everyone told him not to. It now operates in fifty states and forty countries. He has written nine books, most of them with the word hope somewhere in the title. He lives his faith, loves his family, and still wakes up before 4:30 every morning ready to make something of the day. Listen and follow: www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com/follow Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thelifeshiftpodcast.beehiiv.com/ --- chronic illness and identity, finding purpose through suffering, hope and community building, childhood trauma and resilience, cystic fibrosis survival story, being seen and heard, civic renewal, mentorship and belonging, transforming pain into work, the burning bush and calling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 59m 10s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() Survival Into Service: The Night a Dog Changed Everything | Some stories ask a lot of you. This is one of them. But it gives something back too. Karen Diskin-Dickson grew up in a house where silence was survival. From her earliest memories, she carried fear the way other kids carried backpacks, always aware of what the next moment might bring. She was a twin, a straight-A student, a girl who rescued stray dogs, and a child who believed it was her job to protect her sisters from what was happening inside their home. She never got a carefree childhood. She got a crash course in endurance. When she was 12 and a half, the weight of it all became unbearable. What followed was a moment by a river, a dog who changed everything, and a voice she had never heard before that told her she was loved. She chose to believe it. And somehow, improbably, that choice held. This episode traces what happened next. The escape. The years of silence. The therapy that helped her learn to play. The confrontation with her father at 24 finally freed her from fear. The decision, later in life, to move her elderly parents into her care, not out of obligation but out of grief for the mother she had never had, and a hunger to finally learn how to be someone's child. And the foundation she now runs with her sisters, helping trauma survivors understand that it's not what's wrong with them. It's what happened to them. What You'll Hear: The moment at 12 and a half that became Karen's life shift, and the dog who stopped it from going another way What it felt like to grow up not knowing what carefree meant, and how animals became her refuge How she learned to parent without a map, and why asking for help was one of the bravest things she ever did The long road to confronting her father and finally releasing a fear that had followed her across state lines Why she chose to care for the parents who hurt her, and what she was really looking for in that choice How the Remarkably Resilient Foundation grew from a shared question among sisters: who was going to teach this? Guest Bio: Karen Diskin-Dickson is a retired nurse, EMT, Reiki master, grandmother, and co-founder of the Remarkably Resilient Foundation, which she runs alongside her sisters. She is the co-author of Remarkably Resilient: Community Matters, published in 2019. Karen speaks publicly and volunteers with incarcerated individuals, helping trauma survivors understand their own responses and find a path toward healing. She lives with her life partner and four grown children nearby. You can reach her and explore her work at www.remarkably-resilient.com. Listen and follow: www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com/follow Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thelifeshiftpodcast.beehiiv.com/ ---- healing from childhood trauma, generational abuse, breaking the cycle of trauma, surviving childhood neglect, trauma recovery journey, choosing love after abuse, ACEs and resilience, trauma informed healing, finding joy after hard things, incest survivor story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 56m 25s | ||||||
| 6/14/26 | ![]() The Hero's Journey: Finding Yourself in the Story You Already Lived | Maybe you've spent years showing up as a slightly different version of yourself depending on who was in the room. Maybe you learned early that being liked was safer than being known. If any of that lands, this conversation is for you. Peter Bailey grew up carrying something heavy: the feeling that something in his family was broken, and that it was somehow his job to fix it. That inherited sorrow shaped him into a kid who crossed the outside of a bridge over a six-lane highway just to feel like he mattered. It shaped him into someone who drank and people-pleased and performed his way through his twenties, until one night, sitting at a typewriter with a beer beside him, something in him finally said, this is going nowhere. What happened after that, including sobriety, Joseph Campbell's hero's journey, 45 years of leadership work across 50 countries, and a new book called The Epic of You, is a story about what becomes possible when you stop running from your own chapters and start reading them differently. What You'll Hear: How Peter inherited his family's sorrow as a young child, and how that shaped his relationship with approval and identity The moment at a typewriter that became his rock bottom and his turning point How discovering Joseph Campbell's hero's journey gave him a map for every season of his life, past and future The difference between surviving and thriving, and how we often spend years in the closet looking for the light Why he teaches "don't fix, don't judge, don't steal" as a way of showing up for others without taking the light off them What it looks like to treat your own life as a heroic journey, even the ordinary parts Guest Bio: Peter Bailey is the President of The Prouty Project, a strategic planning and leadership development firm based in Minneapolis. He is also the author of the newly published book The Epic of You- Reframe Your Past to Navigate Your Future. Bailey’s personal story — from challenges to triumphs, travel to transformation — becomes a living example of how obstacles can shape our identity and fuel our growth. Whether you’re standing at a crossroads or simply wondering “What now?”, The Epic of You helps you see your past with fresh eyes and your future with fresh purpose. Book and Ted-x website: www.peter-bailey.com Prouty Project website: www.proutyproject.com — Listen and follow: www.thelifeshiftpodcast.com/follow Subscribe to the newsletter: https://thelifeshiftpodcast.beehiiv.com/ — sobriety journey, hero's journey, people pleasing recovery, self-esteem and identity, Joseph Campbell transformation, leadership and vulnerability, emotional intelligence, disease of comparison, reclaiming your story, life shift moment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 53m 14s | ||||||
| 6/12/26 | ![]() Start Here: What Is The Life Shift?✨ | life changespersonal stories+3 | — | — | — | life shifttransformation+3 | — | 0m 36s | |
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Resilience After Amputation: Rebuilding Life From the Ground Up✨ | resilienceamputation+3 | Scott Martin | NikeSimon and Schuster | Chicago | resilienceamputation+5 | — | 1h 00m 39s | |
| 6/7/26 | ![]() Lemon-Sized Brain Tumor: The Life That Grew After Surgery✨ | brain tumoridentity shift+3 | Jen Dary | The Life Shiftneurologist+1 | — | brain tumorsurgery+3 | — | 1h 02m 14s | |
| 6/3/26 | ![]() How Misha Brown Got Sober and Learned to Be His Own Best Friend✨ | sobrietyself-love+3 | Misha Brown | — | New Jersey | sobrietyself-care+3 | — | 1h 05m 56s | |
| 5/31/26 | ![]() Under the Surface: The Shark Attack That Taught Tim Thomas to Trust✨ | shark attacktrust+5 | Tim Thomas | Australian Special Forces | Sydney | shark attacktrust+5 | — | 1h 05m 37s | |
| 5/27/26 | ![]() What Happened to You: Breaking the Cycle Sixty Years in the Making✨ | childhood traumapersonal growth+3 | Kathleen McKune | Adverse Childhood Experiences | — | traumasurvival+3 | — | 56m 02s | |
| 5/24/26 | ![]() What Survives: A Story About Loss, Resilience, and Inner Friendship✨ | griefresilience+3 | Matin | — | IranJapan | griefresilience+5 | — | 1h 03m 02s | |
| 5/20/26 | ![]() Grief and Fatherhood: The Song That Changed Everything✨ | grieffatherhood+3 | Matt Fogelson | Grateful Dead | — | grieffatherhood+5 | — | 55m 12s | |
| 5/17/26 | ![]() Honesty Over Comfort: The Confession That Changed Everything✨ | honestyrelationships+3 | Nick Gomez | — | — | confessiontruth+3 | — | 1h 00m 50s | |
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Grief, Ancestors & Cuba: Finding Your Mother Again✨ | griefancestry+3 | Rebe Huntman | — | Cuba | griefmother+5 | — | 57m 33s | |
| 5/10/26 | ![]() Living With MS: Finding Strength From the Inside Out✨ | multiple sclerosisinvisible illness+3 | Shruti | Ayurvedic therapymemoir | MelbourneKerala | multiple sclerosisinvisible illness+3 | — | 43m 37s | |
| 5/6/26 | ![]() Part of Me Died That Day: Learning to Live After the Worst Day of Your Life✨ | griefloss+4 | Stephen Panus | — | — | griefloss of a child+5 | — | 55m 49s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Coma at 14: Learning to Walk, Talk, and Trust Yourself Again✨ | coma recoveryself-discovery+3 | Nick Prefontaine | — | — | comasnowboarding accident+5 | — | 56m 41s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Control: What the NICU Took and What It Gave Back✨ | NICU experienceparenting+3 | Evan Boyer | — | — | NICUparenting+3 | — | 52m 30s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() Addiction and Recovery: When the Hero Asks for Help✨ | addictionrecovery+4 | Dr. Tony Dice | Navy SEALs | Northern California | addictionrecovery+6 | — | 59m 57s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Identity: What a Stroke Couldn't Take✨ | identitygrief+3 | Deb Meyerson | Stanford | Lake Tahoe | strokeidentity+5 | — | 1h 03m 16s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Family Secrets: When the Truth You Always Sensed Finally Has a Name✨ | grieffamily secrets+3 | Wendy | My Pretty Baby | — | grieffamily secrets+3 | — | 52m 54s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Mental Health: Learning to Live on the Other Side of Breaking✨ | mental healthpsychotic episode+4 | Chris Magleby | Mindless Labs | — | mental healthpsychotic episode+5 | — | 57m 36s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Domestic Violence: Breaking the Silence Men Are Taught Not to Break✨ | domestic violencemental health+4 | Eugene Z. Bertrand | — | — | domestic violencetrauma+5 | — | 48m 19s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Existing vs. Living: A Mother's Journey Back to the World✨ | griefloss+4 | Dianette Wells | — | Southern CaliforniaMount Whitney+1 | griefloss of a child+5 | — | 47m 51s | |
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