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Spirit Talk Show - Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups

Spirit Talk Show is a storytelling podcast built on genuine human connection. Each episode features meaningful conversations, live cold readings, and shared creativity with remarkable guests.Stories unfold naturally—sometimes eerie, sometimes funny, sometimes deeply moving—through personal memories, original works, and AI-assisted storytelling. Every episode honors real voices, lived experiences, and the power of being fully present.Spirit Talk Show is a space where stories are shared, voices are

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62:36

S7-EP14: A Family, Maybe: Lane Igoudin on the Love...

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2026/09/30

There is a kind of love that asks you to give yourself completely to something that is not yet given to you. Foster parents know this love. It is patient in a way most love does not have to be. It is brave in a way most love never has to be asked to be. And it does not make headlines — it just keeps showing up in the dark, in the kitchen, at three in the morning, holding a small person and refusing to let the uncertainty in the room become the uncertainty in the embrace.That is the love Lane

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52:48

S7-EP13: Teri M. Brown: Stories Carried Across America

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2026/09/23

What happens when you stop waiting for “someday” and start living the story you’re meant to tell?In this luminous episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Doyle and producer Howie welcome Teri M. Brown—a novelist, memoirist, mother, grandmother, and adventurer whose life reads like a testament to resilience, curiosity, and quiet bravery. Born in Athens, Greece and raised as an Air Force kid all over the world, Teri learned early how to carry home within herself. After

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78:41

S7-EP12: Hiraeth: Elizabeth Bromstein and the Cabin...

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2026/09/16

There is a Welsh word — hiraeth — for the feeling of being homesick for a place you have never been. A longing so specific it sits in the chest. A sense, just around the next corner, that something is waiting for you. That you are always about to arrive.Elizabeth Bromstein felt it for decades. She had the city, the career, the resume the world told her to want. And the whole time, she kept dreaming about a cabin in the forest. Then the industry she worked in collapsed. And instead of grabbing the

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87:03

S7-EP11: What If the Root Goes Deeper: Beatty...

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2026/09/09

He comes from seven generations of doctors. Surgeons, internists, healers of the body — a family that spent over a century learning how to fix what was broken. And somewhere inside all of that, Beatty Carmichael noticed a leg of the stool that medicine kept leaving out.Not the physical. Not the mental. The third one. The one nobody had a protocol for. In this episode, Beatty walks me through a framework he calls the Prayer of Freedom — a process rooted in ancient Bible text that he has now used

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88:57

S7-EP10: Cracked Open: Jon Paul Crimi on Breathwork,...

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2026/09/02

He walked into his first breathwork class and saw a sheepskin rug, crystals, and oils. He looked around and thought: what is this fresh hell that I have now stepped into? He was from Boston. He did not believe in Mercury in retrograde. He was not the guy for this.Then Matthew Perry bought him a session with a guru, told him he was the only friend who would do it, and asked him to report back. So he went. And something happened that he could not explain. And he spent the next fifteen years figuring

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66:11

S7-EP9: Rodney Phillips on Dissension, Conflict, and...

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2026/08/26

Some stories don't die.They wait. At 19 years old, Rodney Phillips began writing a novel about conflict — about how a single disagreement can fracture trust, unravel loyalty, and ignite consequences no one can control. Then life happened. Career. Coaching. Fatherhood. Leadership. And the manuscript — handwritten in notebooks and on furniture store layaway cards — sat untouched in a filing cabinet for 37 years. Until one quiet weekend in an empty nest, he opened the drawer. In this powerful episode

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84:53

S7-EP8: The Underneath Place: Craig Meriwether on...

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2026/08/19

Most of what runs your life is not part of you. You would not recognize it if it bumped into you in the street. Underneath the version of you that picks out a t-shirt in the morning and answers emails and makes small talk — there is another you. A quieter one. An older one. The one who learned very early what was safe and what was not. What love looked like. What you were worth. Whether you had to keep your guard up just in case.That version of you does not ask permission. It just runs. And it has

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61:30

S7-EP7: Sarah Marshall: Burning Man, Impermanence,...

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2026/08/12

What does it teach you when a city rises from nothing… and then vanishes on purpose?Doyle is joined by guest co-hosts Howie and Russ for a wide-ranging conversation with Sarah Marshall, author of Playa Dust in My Soul, a novel that drops you into Burning Man through seven distinct characters and a fully lived, 360-degree view of the Playa. Sarah unpacks the deeper philosophy beneath the spectacle: radical self-reliance, the gift economy, participation without an audience, and how impermanence

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66:06

S7-EP6: Devorah Brinckerhoff on Trauma, Creativity,...

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2026/08/05

In this deeply moving episode of Spirit Talk Show, Doyle sits down with Devorah Brinckerhoff for a powerful conversation about grief, trauma, creativity, and the quiet courage it takes to face the parts of ourselves we were taught to hide.Devorah shares how her work with Soul Portraits was born not from theory, but from survival—through loss, family rupture, profound betrayal, and the long process of reclaiming identity after trauma. What emerged was a creative healing practice that helps people

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51:57

S7-EP5: Opening the Box: Mike Balaban, 50,000 Photos,...

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2026/07/29

Mike Balaban didn't set out to be a historian. He was a closeted Wall Street banker who drove across America in 1978 with a dog-eared copy of the Bob Dameron guide, a yellow legal pad, and a camera — stopping at every gay bar between New York and San Diego, writing reviews in the margins of his own life. He took photos he thought no one else would ever want. He kept diary entries that could have cost him everything. He put it all in a box.Decades later, he opened that box. And what he found was all

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72:47

S7-EP4: The Tip of the Spear: Terrence Rotering on...

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2026/07/22

He spent four years at the Air Force Academy. Twenty years flying fighter aircraft. Fifteen years at NORAD, the command responsible for watching the skies over all of North America. Thirty-nine years of vigilance, discipline, and mission. And when the uniform finally came off, the silence was deafening.So Terrence Rotering sat down and wrote 5,000 pages in two years. Eleven books. A trilogy of trilogies plus two. An epic saga called The Chronicles of Trinith that braids together fantasy, science

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S7-EP3: Gerald Everett Jones on Writing, Hollywood,...

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2026/07/15

In this extended episode of Spirit Talk Show, Doyle sits down with award-winning author Gerald Everett Jones for a wide-ranging conversation about writing, publishing, Hollywood, history, and what success really means for a working storyteller. Gerald reflects on his journey from nonfiction and technical writing to fiction, screenwriting, and historical novels, sharing hard-won insight into the realities of traditional publishing, self-publishing, book promotion, and the often painful gap between

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81:07

S7-EP2: In the Room Where It Happened: Richard Sparks...

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2026/07/08

He was in the pub with Rowan Atkinson when John Cleese called. He watched Rick Mayal and Adrian Edmondson do their very first television appearance. He stood at the back of an empty auditorium the night Stefan Grappelli made a seasoned guitarist stop mid-conversation just to watch. He was there for so much of it — the golden age of British comedy, the writers' rooms, the charity stages, the moments that became television history. And then, decades later, he sat down alone one night to play a

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S7-EP1: Scott Miller & The Lost Sci-Fi Signal — A...

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2026/07/01

Every season begins with a spark. For the Season 7 premiere of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Doyle welcomes a guest who feels perfectly at home in the world of imagination, storytelling, and the power of the human voice. Scott Miller, host of the acclaimed Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, joins the show for a lively and unforgettable conversation about vintage science fiction, the golden age of radio storytelling, and the magic of bringing written stories to life through voice and

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S6-EP26.5: The House Was a Warm Hug: A Bonus...

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2026/06/25

After we aired our Season 6 tribute to Evelyn Dorothy Parker, something stayed with me. Not just her story, but the voices of the people she made. This bonus companion episode is something I have never done before on this show. What you are about to hear is the memorial gathering held for Evelyn by the people who loved her — her sons, her colleagues from the Krasnow Lab at Stanford, the young researchers she took into her home, the daughter-in-law she welcomed in a moment of grief with nothing but

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60:37

S6-EP26: Season 6 Finale: A Life of Kindness and...

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2026/06/24

As Season 6 of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups comes to a close, we pause—not with noise, but with reflection. In this special tribute episode, Doyle sits down with his friend Russ to honor the life of Russ’s mother, Evelyn Dorothy Parker—a remarkable woman whose story quietly spans immigration, science, motherhood, and a lifetime of perseverance. Born in 1937 to a family who fled Nazi Germany, Evelyn’s life began in upheaval but unfolded with extraordinary purpose. She grew up on a

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S6-EP25: Diana Colleen — Can Fiction Change...

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2026/06/17

What if the greatest threat to humanity isn’t scarcity — but excess?In this powerful episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Doyle welcomes speculative fiction author Diana Colleen for a fascinating conversation about wealth, power, climate change, and the human psychology behind extreme accumulation. Diana shares the deeply personal journey that led her to write her bold new novel — including how psychedelic-assisted therapy helped her through a suicidal period and ultimately

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78:06

S6-EP24: The Firewood Guy: How Steve Gamlin Turned...

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2026/06/10

What does it look like when a man stands in a thunderstorm, dares lightning to strike him, and discovers his entire purpose instead?Steve Gamlin -- keynote speaker, stand-up comedian, vision board coach, and self-described "beach bum philanthropist" -- has built a life out of beautiful wreckage. A ten-year radio career that imploded. A divorce. Tens of thousands of dollars in debt at 35. And then, one afternoon on a golf course in the middle of a thunderstorm, something shifted. That moment

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60:55

S6-EP23: Paper Roses & Reclaiming the Narrative:...

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2026/06/03

What happens to the families left behind after the headlines fade?In this powerful episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Doyle sits down with novelist and therapist Debbie Show, author of Paper Roses, and audiobook narrator Laurieann Hart for an intimate conversation about sibling abuse, narcissistic family systems, generational trauma, and the long shadow of public scandal. Debbie’s sister’s crimes became national spectacle — even featured on television — but Paper Roses

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S6-EP22: A Glimpse of Your Own Light — Wil Fisher on...

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2026/05/27

Here is the rewritten episode description with Wil's Lake Arrowhead event woven in:S6-EP22: A Glimpse of Your Own Light — Wil Fisher on Being Seen, Breaking Open, and Living Fully Alive There are people you meet in life who remind you that you are more than the story you have been telling about yourself. Wil Fisher is one of those people. This week on Spirit Talk Show, Doyle gets deeply personal. He opens by sharing something that happened to him at a retreat he nearly did not attend, a weekend

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