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The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change

The Life Shift shares real and honest conversations about the moments that change us. Host Matt Gilhooly sits with guests as they tell true stories of life-changing events, unexpected challenges, and quiet awakenings that shaped who they are today. Each episode offers meaningful and candid storytelling about grief, healing, resilience, identity, and growth. These are the personal stories that remind us what it feels like to be human. These are the turning points that stay with us. If you are drawn

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67:40

A 3% Chance of Survival Changed Him. His Purpose...

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/30

What if the hardest thing you’ve ever faced became the reason you kept going? After surviving a horrific car accident that left him with a three percent chance of survival, John Ulsh spent years relearning how to live, move, and believe in the life ahead of him. Across 45 surgeries and 17 years of recovery, he found that healing wasn’t about getting “back” to normal. It was about building something new — one intentional day at a time. In this

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6:33

The Moments That Change Everything | Bonus

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/28

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me after the conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about those quiet or sudden moments when everything in your life shifts. The ground moves. The story you thought you were living no longer fits. And you find yourself standing in a new version of your life without knowing how you got there. In this reflection, I talk about the before and after moments we do not always

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59:23

Grief Can Be a Love Story Too

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/23

What if your greatest teacher had four legs and an endless capacity for love?When licensed therapist Brianna Laricchia lost her dog Molly, the grief cracked her heart wide open. It wasn’t just about losing a pet — it was about losing a constant, unconditional presence that had shaped who she was. In this conversation, Brianna shares how that loss transformed her both personally and professionally, leading her to specialize in grief counseling for others walking the

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6:46

When Clarity Comes After the Mess | Bonus

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/21

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me long after the conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about those disorienting moments when the life you have been living suddenly feels unfamiliar. The pieces stop fitting together. The story you have been telling yourself begins to crack. And you find yourself standing in the in between, unsure of what comes next. In this reflection, I talk about confusion as part of

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59:13

When Podcasting Starts Changing You | A Live...

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/19

If you have ever been curious about what actually happens behind the scenes of a meaningful conversation, this livestream is an open door. Not polished. Not rehearsed. Just two hosts sitting together in real time, talking honestly about why we keep doing this work and how it keeps changing us.This special co-hosted livestream on Riverside brought me together with Angela Hollowell to reflect on podcasting, storytelling, and the quiet evolution that happens when you keep showing

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60:47

The Moment Robb Kelly Stopped Running From Himself

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/16

What if the lowest point in your life was actually your turning point? Dr. Robb Kelly knows what it means to lose everything, family, home, and even the will to live, and still find a way forward. From playing music at Abbey Road to living on the streets of Manchester, Robb’s story is a raw reminder of what happens when pain becomes purpose. Through science, faith, and relentless honesty, he rebuilt his life and devoted it to helping others recover from addiction and

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6:21

Learning to Be Softer With Yourself | Bonus

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/14

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me after the conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about how hard we can be on ourselves and what it means to slowly learn gentleness. So many of us move through life with old shame, perfectionism, or fear tucked inside. We push ourselves to be better, to get everything right, or to carry more than we were ever meant to hold. In this reflection, I talk about the critical

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56:21

He Stepped Out of the Spotlight to Hear Himself Again

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/09

What happens when the spotlight fades and you’re left with silence? Seth Stewart spent years performing on the world’s biggest stages — from Hamilton and In the Heights to touring with Madonna. But at the height of success, something inside him started calling for more. That quiet pull led him away from bright lights and applause, and into the wilderness where he began listening to his own spirit for the first time. In this conversation, Seth opens up about

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5:25

Learning to Live With Grief | Bonus

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/07

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series built around the themes that stay with me after the conversations on The Life Shift. Today, I am talking about grief and the way it takes shape inside a life. Grief is not something you finish. It is something living and moving, something that changes as you change. Losing my mom, my grandmother, and Mikey shaped the way I understand grief long before I ever sat with a guest and heard their story. In this reflection, I

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59:25

Learning to Tell the Story You Thought You Had to Hide

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/12/02

Sometimes grief arrives before we are old enough to understand it. It lands in the middle of everything familiar and quietly rewrites the map of who we become. Years can pass before we realize how much of ourselves is still standing in that same frozen place. In this conversation, Kristina Amelong shares what it means to finally face what she could not name as a teenager. After losing her younger brother in a sudden accident, she spent decades searching for ways to numb the

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5:45

When Burnout Starts to Break You Open | Bonus

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/30

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a short solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me after the conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about burnout and the deeper exhaustion that grows slowly over time. The kind that shows up when you have spent years pushing through life, trying to be enough, and holding more than you were ever meant to carry alone. In this reflection, I explore what burnout really feels like, why so many of us miss the early

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57:57

The Doctor Said, “Spank Him.” Piper Said No.

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/25

Have you ever reached a point where the answers you’re given simply stop feeling right? Where you realize that trusting your own instincts might be the only way forward. For Piper, that moment came in a doctor’s office when she was told her son just needed a spanking. Something inside her knew that wasn’t true. What followed was a full transformation born from love and determination. She went back to school, relearned what she thought she knew about health, and

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51:07

Rebuilding a Life You Never Asked to Start Over

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/25

Sometimes we don’t get to choose when life asks us to begin again. One moment you’re following a dream, and the next you’re rebuilding from the pieces of what used to be. It’s a strange kind of starting over – the kind you never asked for but somehow learn to live inside. Ava Jones knows that space well. At seventeen, she survived a devastating car accident that took her father’s life and changed everything she knew about herself. Two years

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61:37

She Lost Her Brother Tragically. Poetry Helped Her Heal.

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/18

Some moments stay with us long after they end. The choice we made. The thing we wish we had said. The image that still lingers when the room goes quiet. Cyra’s story begins with one of those moments, the kind that changes everything and asks who we will become after it.At sixteen, she lost her brother to suicide and carried the guilt of that day for years. Her healing came slowly, through forgiveness and the power of words. Poetry became a place to lay down her pain and

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58:17

He Lost the Job. He Found His Life.

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/18

Have you ever been doing everything right and still felt something was missing? Clay Garrett thought he had built the life he was supposed to have. A stable career, a loving family, all the boxes checked. But when life suddenly stopped, he was invited to see what really mattered. Clay’s story unfolds in the quiet that followed a layoff just before the pandemic. What began as fear became clarity. In that unexpected pause, he found what a good life feels like when presence

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67:55

When Her Body Spoke, She Finally Heard

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/11

Have you ever built a life that looked good from the outside but left you exhausted on the inside? Brooks Bell knows that feeling. At 38, she was the driven CEO who could carry it all until her body told her something wasn’t right. What followed was not only a colon cancer diagnosis but a reckoning with how she had been living.This story isn’t just about surviving illness. It is about letting go of perfection, rediscovering joy, and realizing that fun is a form of

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59:37

Leaving the Plan to Become the Person

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/11

Have you ever realized you were living the life someone else imagined for you?Andrew Mitch did everything right on paper. He followed the rules, earned the degrees, and chased approval until the weight of it all became too heavy to carry. When he finally walked away from the life others expected, he found the beginning of his own. What unfolded next was unexpected. A stranger at a restaurant table looked at him through tears and said, “Whatever you have, the world needs to

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3:52

I Finally Made a Journal I’d Actually Use

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/09

I’ve never been great at journaling.I’d start strong, buy the nice notebook, write for a few days – then stop.But through The Life Shift Podcast, I learned how powerful reflection can be when it’s real, not forced. So I created something I’d actually use. It’s called The Life Shift Journal.A 12-week guided reflection with one simple prompt each day – designed to help you slow down, pay attention, and see how you’re changing along

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62:50

Grief Changed Him. Joy Came Later.

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/04

Sometimes the story we never wanted becomes the one that shapes who we are. When the people we love disappear too soon, we begin to understand how fragile and precious it all is. Ricardo was only ten when his mother dropped him and his brother at the bowling alley and promised she would be right back. She never came back. That moment changed the way he saw the world. Through grief, silence, and eventually cancer, he learned that joy is not something that just arrives. It is

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61:07

Breaking the Cycle No One Talks About

The Life Shift | Pivotal Moments & Life Change ·

2025/11/04

Have you ever looked back on your childhood and realized how much you learned to keep inside? How the silence around you became something you carried, long after you left the place that taught it to you. Shigeko Ito grew up in a home that looked perfect from the outside but felt empty inside. Years later, after a moment of betrayal that changed everything, she began the long work of finding her way back to herself. Her story moves from isolation to understanding, from blame to

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