Walk With Me, Conversations With Real People

49:10

Turning Relationship Failure Into Healing:...

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2026/05/12

What if the struggles in your relationships aren't random—but rooted in patterns you've been carrying your whole life? In this episode, Stephanie sits down with Brian Power, an integrated attachment theory coach, to explore how childhood experiences shape the way we love, communicate, and connect. From a chaotic upbringing marked by instability and addiction to nearly losing his marriage, Brian shares the journey that forced him to confront his deepest wounds—and ultimately transform them. This

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41:24

Brighter Days Ahead: Healing Trauma Through Brain...

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2026/05/05

A powerful conversation on trauma, suicide, shame, and healing through brain health. Dr. Theodore Henderson shares how neuroplasticity, ketamine, and infrared light therapy are changing mental health treatment. What if healing isn't just about coping—but actually repairing the brain? In this deeply moving episode, Dr. Theodore Henderson shares his journey from severe childhood trauma and years of suicidal ideation to becoming a leading voice in brain health and innovative mental health treatment. We

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50:53

Turning Pain Into Purpose: How One Childhood Divorce...

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2026/04/29

Episode Summary What happens when the conflict you grow up in becomes the very thing you're called to change? In this episode, I sit down with Joe Dillon, divorce mediator and co-founder of Equitable Mediation Services, who shares his deeply personal story of growing up as an only child in the middle of a long, litigated divorce in the 1980s. What began as a childhood shaped by silence, conflict, and emotional disconnection followed him into adulthood—impacting his relationships, emotional

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43:48

Pivot to Possible: Navigating Grief, Loss, and...

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2026/04/21

Episode Summary What does it really look like to rebuild your life after unimaginable loss? In this deeply moving conversation, I sit down with Becky Smith-Gallai, author, speaker, and resilience expert, whose life has been shaped by profound adversity—and an unwavering commitment to finding possibility through it. From losing her brother at a young age… to raising multiple children with complex medical needs… to becoming suddenly paralyzed as a single mother—Becky's story is not just about

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49:05

Building Brotherhood, Purpose, and Personal Strength...

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2026/04/14

In this episode of Walk With Me Conversations, we sit down with Edward Okafor, a high-performance wellness strategist and founder of Wisdom of Men, a platform focused on helping men develop discipline, confidence, and supportive brotherhood. Raised in North Carolina by a single mother, Edward grew up navigating life without a consistent male role model — an experience that deeply shaped his understanding of the challenges many men face today. After studying industrial design and briefly stepping

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51:24

The Long Road Back to Yourself | David Richards

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2026/04/07

In this episode of the Walk With Me Podcast, Stephanie sits down with David Richards — a Marine Corps veteran, author, yoga instructor, and coach whose life journey spans military service, personal transformation, and a deep exploration of spirituality and purpose. David grew up in a military family and eventually followed that path himself, attending Penn State and becoming a Marine officer. His career included leadership roles and deployment to Somalia during the early 1990s. The experience

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49:47

Breaking Cycles, Owning Your Story, and Living...

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2026/03/31

In this episode of the Walk With Me Podcast, we sit down with Meridee Hlokoff — a spiritual guide, addictions coach, life coach, and business coach dedicated to helping people break free from destructive patterns and reconnect with their authentic selves. transcription Meridee's story begins in a challenging environment marked by generational trauma and a mother struggling with serious mental health issues. Growing up in that instability forced her to confront difficult questions about identity,

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34:44

Remembering the Frequency of Love: Healing Beyond...

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2026/03/24

Episode Summary In this episode of the Walk With Me Podcast, Stephanie sits down with Dr. Sharnael, a practitioner, author, and educator whose work blends holistic health, spirituality, and the science of human energy and physiology. Dr. Sharnael shares the deeply personal journey that led her into the world of natural healing. After years of struggling with serious health issues and being placed on more than thirty medications without improvement, she began searching for answers beyond conventional

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44:58

Changing the Trajectory of Your Health & Life with Kay

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2026/03/10

In this episode of the Walk With Me Podcast, we sit down with Kay, a lifelong community developer, entrepreneur, and health advocate who believes that the choices we make every day can dramatically change the trajectory of our lives. Kay grew up in a large Midwestern family as the oldest of eight children. That early responsibility helped shape her curiosity about people and her desire to serve others. Over the years, that curiosity led her far beyond her hometown—working in community development

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48:10

Surviving Trauma and Breaking the Cycle | Adrienne...

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2026/03/07

Episode Overview In this episode of the Walk With Me Podcast, Stephanie speaks with Adrienne Caldwell, author of Unbroken: Life Outside the Lines. Adrienne shares her extraordinary journey from childhood abuse, homelessness, and foster care to becoming a survivor, mother, and advocate for healing. Adrienne grew up surrounded by generational trauma, poverty, and instability. Her mother struggled with schizophrenia, and throughout her childhood Adrienne experienced physical abuse, extreme poverty,

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49:14

Childhood trauma, grief, healing, and unlikely courage

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2026/02/17

In this deeply moving episode of Walk With Me Conversations, we sit down with Alicia Johnson-Niles, founder of Unlikely Courage and author of the forthcoming book Angel in Arlington. Alicia's story begins with a devastating loss—her father was murdered when she was just two years old. Though she grew up surrounded by love and stability, the trauma of that loss quietly shaped her inner world for decades, manifesting as anxiety, fear, people-pleasing, disordered eating, and a constant sense of bracing

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48:04

What Do You Want to Sustain? Meaning, Resilience, and...

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2026/02/10

In this episode of Walk With Me, Stephanie sits down with David Auger—environmental engineer, author, husband, father, and deep thinker—to explore sustainability as more than a scientific metric. David invites us to consider sustainability as a normative, values-based question: What do we want to hold onto, protect, and pass forward? David shares his personal journey growing up in Denver, attending West Point, serving in the military, and transitioning into a long career in environmental engineering

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37:54

Dale Walsh — Schizophrenia, Stigma, and the Long Road...

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2026/02/03

In this deeply honest and unconventional conversation, we sit down with Dale Walsh—poet, mentor, and mental health advocate—who shares his lived experience with schizophrenia spanning nearly five decades. Dale's journey began in the summer of 1975, when a psychotic break during his freshman year at Dartmouth College led to involuntary hospitalization and a diagnosis that would shape much of his adult life. What followed were years inside psychiatric institutions, long-term stigma, and a mental

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44:40

Breaking the Silence with Damian Bloss

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2026/01/27

In this deeply moving episode of Walk With Me Conversations, we sit down with Damian Bloss, author, recovery advocate, and mental health group leader, to explore a story of grief, addiction, redemption, and hope. Damian shares how a seemingly "normal" childhood—filled with baseball dreams and close family ties—was forever altered by the suicide of a father figure during his late teens. Carrying unspoken guilt and unresolved trauma, Damian turned to alcohol as a way to numb the pain, a coping

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48:18

Neuro-Spicy & Not Broken: Late Autism Diagnosis,...

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2026/01/20

✨ What We Talk About What it's like growing up undiagnosed autistic and ADHD in the 90s Masking, people-pleasing, and the cost of being "the good kid" Panic attacks, anxiety, and sensory overload that went unseen Why autism in women and girls has been historically missed Parenting neurodivergent kids while discovering your own diagnosis Sensory sensitivities (sound, food, textures, touch, water, heat) Learning to work with your brain instead of against it Redefining self-care, routines, food,

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51:01

From Addiction to Agency: Matt Von Boceklin on...

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2026/01/13

Guest: Matt Von Becklin – Founder of QuitKit Episode Summary In this deeply honest and powerful conversation, Matt Von Becklin shares his journey through addiction, identity loss, abandonment wounds, and ultimately recovery. From growing up with an absent father and feeling perpetually on the outside socially, to navigating substance use through alcohol, cigarettes, tramadol, and kratom, Matt opens up about how addiction became both a coping mechanism and a cage. Matt explains how his lowest

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55:55

Carrying the Tiger: Caregiving, Loss, and Finding Joy...

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2026/01/06

Episode Summary In this episode of Walk With Me Conversations, I sit down with author Tony Stewart to explore a love story shaped by creativity, devotion, and the hardest kind of grace. Tony shares his background growing up as a free-range kid in Manhattan, driven by theater, filmmaking, and a lifelong impulse to create. But the heart of his story centers on his late wife, Lynn, and the seven-year journey they walked through her stage-four non-smoker's lung cancer. With honesty and tenderness, Tony

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52:12

The Power of Play with Zander Phelps, the Ambassador...

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2025/12/30

📄 Episode Summary: In this uplifting and unexpected conversation, host Stephanie Bloom sits down with Zander Phelps — also known as Z Play Coach — a creative soul on a mission to help the world reconnect with joy through play, laughter, and presence. From his idyllic childhood in Orange County to the stark reality of military life underground in Japan, from corporate burnout at NBC to selling everything he owned to travel the world with just a backpack and a foot bag — Zander's story is a

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51:14

My Journey Back to Loving Myself with Lori Maher

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2025/12/23

💬 Episode Summary: In this powerful episode of Walk With Me, Stephanie sits down with Lori Maher — a trauma survivor, holistic healer, and the heart behind Compassionate Empowerment — to explore her remarkable path from childhood abuse and chronic illness to healing, self-discovery, and purpose. Lori shares how early emotional neglect and trauma led to decades of anxiety and physical exhaustion, culminating in a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome at the age of 30. With mainstream medical

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56:00

Getting on My Nerves: The Challenges and Triumphs of...

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2025/12/16

In this episode of Walk With Me, Stephanie sits down with Clinton Bartok—former Colorado adventurer and licensed acupuncturist—whose life reshaped overnight after a devastating bike accident in 2017 left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. Clinton shares the surreal calm of the moment he crashed, the terrifying reality of not being able to breathe or call for help, and the inner voice that told him he would recover. What follows is a powerful story of neuroplasticity, relentless rehab, and a

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