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10/29/2025

Episode 20 Just Released

It’s here.
Episode 20 of Still Here, Still Trying just dropped: The Art of Staying Human.

This one’s personal.
Five ways to hold onto your humanity when the algorithms keep trying to turn us into enemies, products, or noise.
We talk truth, leadership, compassion, and why staying kind might be the most rebellious act left.

It closes with my song “Came Here to Be Kind.”
Because that’s the heartbeat of all of this.

🎧 Listen now on Spotify → open.spotify.com/episode/7GpvNjNieR8z6snkRBsFB4?si=cZCMxOtCQj66ZbKSBGeYAg

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Still Here, Still Trying · Episode

08/01/2025

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07/30/2025

EPISODE 7 – “When the Story Changes”

What do you do when the version of your life no longer fits?
When the role, the rhythm, or the story you were living in starts to shift?

Episode 7 of Still Here, Still Trying is out now—and it’s a personal one.

I’m talking about leadership pivots, fatherhood, fatigue, and the moments when you realize it’s time to let go of what was and start paying attention to what is.

I also share the story behind my song “Borrow Mine”—a quiet offering for anyone who’s running on empty and just needs someone to sit still with them for a while.

Plus… something new is happening at the top of each episode. You’ll see. Or hear, rather.

🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts
or jump in here:
👉 https://open.spotify.com/episode/42yKqkxcSjpmO7Y04L1xxS?si=PD9Y2uKLS-Wypxu93AelBA

Thanks for listening—and for being part of this.

Still Here, Still Trying · Episode

07/21/2025

🎧 New Podcast Guest Appearance!

I had the chance to join the team at BookThinkers: Life-Changing Books for their 250th episode. We talked about The Optimist’s Way, why hope matters, and how small, steady choices shape the way we lead, live, and love.

This isn’t my podcast — I’m just honored to be a guest. If you’re someone who believes in the power of books, leadership with heart, or just showing up for your people through the hard stuff… this conversation is for you.

Thanks again to the BookThinkers crew for having me on.
🎙 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1uHOJV4THMjfwNMuOCUend...
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07/17/2025

⚔️ The Warrior
What They Never Told Us – Archetypes of Endo

She’s fought a thousand battles no one witnessed.
Flares at midnight.
Surgeries that didn’t solve it.
Rooms full of professionals who talked around her pain like it was inconvenient.

And still—she kept getting back up.
Not with rage.
Not with inspiration.
But with blood in her socks and heat packs taped to her skin.

She didn’t want to be strong.
She wanted rest.
She wanted care.
She wanted someone else to carry the weight for once.

But nobody came.
So she became the one who shows up.
Every appointment.
Every morning.
Every damn flare.

She is not defined by her pain.
But don’t mistake that for peace.
She’s still in the fight.
Every. Single. Day.

⚔️ Comment “Still fighting” if you've had to armor up just to make it through
⚔️ Tag a Warrior who deserves more than survival
⚔️ Save this for the days when getting up feels like a battlefield

07/16/2025

🛡 She Is Her Own Army

She doesn’t walk alone.
Not anymore.

All around her are the versions of herself that got her here.
The one who sat shaking in a paper gown, waiting for answers that never came.
The one who cried through another flare and still got up the next day.
The one who signed the surgical consent forms even though she was terrified.
The one who slowly, painfully, started putting her life back together.

Each one still with her.
Each one standing guard.
Not erased—honored.

She’s a circle of survival.
Back-to-back with every version of who she’s had to be.
Not for show.
Not for sympathy.
But because that’s what it took to still be here.

This isn’t about moving on.
This is about remembering who kept her alive.
And choosing to carry them forward, not leave them behind.

🛡 Comment “Still standing” if you've ever had to fight beside your own past
🛡 Tag someone who keeps showing up for themselves
🛡 Save this for the days when your old wounds start whispering again

07/15/2025

🕯 She Stopped Chasing the Cure

There was a time she believed healing meant fixing everything.
Getting back to how things used to be.
Being “normal” again.

But years passed.
She collected tests that led nowhere.
Treatments that stole more than they gave.
Apologies that came too late—if they came at all.

So she stopped chasing the cure.
Not because she gave up,
but because she finally realized the system was never built for someone like her.

She learned to survive without certainty.
To create peace inside a body that still hurt.
To find wholeness in fragments.

Now she sits with all of it.
The referrals.
The scars.
The absence of answers.

Not defeated—just awake.
Not healed—but free from the lie that healing is linear, fast, or always possible.

🕯 Comment “I’m still here” if your healing didn’t follow a straight line
🕯 Tag someone learning to live inside the in-between
🕯 Save this for the days when progress feels invisible