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Well, That F*cked Me Up! Surviving Life Changing Events.

Luke Colson and Kyle Wise

BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down, by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime.. and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet

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30:17

S5 EP12: Dr Patricia Smith's Story - Homeless By 10...

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2025/03/21

Send us a text Dr. Patricia V. Smith, joins us from Jamaica, to bring us her incredible story of escaping a terrifying life as a child on the streets of Jamaica! Dr Smith was homeless by then age of 10, and she talks openly about abandonment, abuse, and homelessness in her home town, to journeying to the USA, and becoming the CEO of Sweet P Home Care, a multimillion-dollar home healthcare company in New York. Patricia’s story inspires readers to embrace their infinite potential, find purpose,...

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31:21

S5 EP11: Sandy's Story - Surviving Stage 4 Cancer

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2025/03/13

Send us a text After being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, Sandy Duarte turned her experience into an opportunity for personal growth and healing. In less than a year, despite being separated from her family (who are in Canada while she is in LA), she survived stage 4 cancer. In this episode we discus the moment she found out, and the mindset that she adapted to guide her through her recovery journey! She wrote her book, Cancer Ramblings, during chemotherapy, and it’s now available...

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S5 EP10 Lena's Story - My Boyfriend Had Multiple Lives

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2025/03/06

Send us a text Let's revisit this amazing episode, with Lena Papadopoulos, one of the most jaw dropping episodes in recent series. Lena was in love, her year long relationship had seen her plan to move in with her boyfriend, and even meet his family, however, something wasn't right. Constant 'work trips', always changing plans, gaslighting, and emotional manipulation had Lena second guessing her own sanity. Ultimately she chose to listen to her instincts, and started to do a little digging. W...

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S5 EP9: Rob's Story - My Toxic Boss Drove Me To...

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2025/02/27

Send us a text Rob Kalwarowsky had it all, a high achiever with a well paid job. All that changed when a toxic boss began to pick away at Rob. Over time Rob lost his self belief, confidence, self love, and eventual lost the will to live. This nightmare scenario is all too common and can bring people to their knees, often bringing up childhood traumas of rejection, and parental abuse. This episode follows Rob's journey out of the darkness, and into an amazing recovery that gives hope to us all...

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41:17

S5 EP8: Nicola's Story - Surviving Cancer My Way

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2025/02/20

Send us a text 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is a show on Netflix about Belle Gibson, the woman that fooled the world that she had brain cancer, and healed it 'holistically'! She made millions, taking charity money and raking in donations for a disease she did not have. It has sparked a wider conversation about beating Cancer holistically, steering clear of Chemo and Radiation, and is it even possible? 'I am afraid you have Cancer, and a 65% chance of making another 5 years'. These are the word...

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S5 EP7: Amanda's Story - The Journey Beyond My...

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2025/02/13

Send us a text Amanda Harris has experienced significant childhood trauma, a wildly violent abusive relationship in her late teens and early 20’s and has battled and overcome addiction and various other adversities including losing everything she owned in a house fire! However, Her greatest awakening, and the birth of her business, came after the loss of her sister to suicide while, Amanda was eight months pregnant. This experience took her to the depths of her soul where she experience...

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S5 EP6: Joe L's Story - The Carnage Of Parental Abuse

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2025/02/06

Send us a text Joe L has lived a very very crazy life, and he is only 40! His path to success and stability, is rooted in a series of devastating personal tragedies that reshaped his life. This episode is explicit and comes with a trigger warning, as we cover topics of all kinds of abuse. Joe had an abusive, alcoholic mother who died young to her drinking. After his father’s catastrophic accident led to the loss of a $15 million business, Joseph witnessed his family fall into financial turmoi...

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S4 EP6: Andre's Story - Breaking Free From Past Traumas

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2025/01/30

Send us a textAndre Paradis is a relationship and NLP coach. Andre comes from a background where I had an absent father and in consequence, found himself being overprotected by his mother – this shaped his vision of women a certain way until he discovered that, in fact, he did not know anything about them!! He worked hard to change his way of thinking so he could have a long healthy romantic relationship. In his practice, he draws upon his knowledge of psychology, gender dynamics, and communi...

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S4 EP4: Allison's Story - Recovery From Trauma, Grief...

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2025/01/23

Send us a textAllison Mones is a high-performance health and business coach and functional nutritionist, focused on empowering high-achieving, ambitious professionals to reach their limitless potential without burning out. Allison spent years in the corporate world, and was an athlete, with a passion for health and wellness. But it was untreated trauma and grief that was leading to an addiction to high achievement, and soon, severe burnout nearly took her out. She joins us to talk about her p...

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S5 EP3: Adrienne's Story - Recovering From Childhood...

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2025/01/16

Send us a textAdrienne Harris has had quite the life starting off with being sexually abused as a child, from three years old all the way to 12 years old, then, being raped at 22, and then going into therapy by 23. I simply horrific start to life. She got married in 2000 and recently divorced her husband after he had an emotional affair with his running coach. She separated from him during the pandemic and went from a typical life of mom, wife and entrepreneur to becoming a professional numer...

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S5 EP2: Tamara's Story - An Unimaginable Ultimatum!

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2025/01/09

Send us a textTamara Winstead joins us this week for an utterly amazing episode about survival, defying the odds, and the transformative power of manifestation, when faced with an unimaginable ultimatum! In 2009, she was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer while 8 weeks pregnant with her third baby. The doctors told her she should terminate the pregnancy in order to begin immediate treatment, they didn't think both her and her baby could survive. That news hit her like a ton of bricks, ...

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32:22

NEW SEASON! S5 EP1: Ronni's Story - Double Hip...

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2025/01/02

Send us a textRonni Morgan kicks off Season 5 with an amazing episode, all about overcoming extreme adversity at a young age. In fact, by age 30, Ronni had lost her ability to walk and needed two hip replacements! Furthermore, Ronni was hospitalized for over 2 weeks because of neck and head pain they couldn’t get under control! Finally, she ended up getting diagnosed with a rare genetic condition called Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. She had to give up a decade long career as a hairstyli...

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S4 EP49: Jeanette's Story - Caring For My Mother From...

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2024/12/19

Send us a textJeanette Yates cared for her sick mother from the age of 8 years old (she is now 49), and she has been caring for her Mom most of my life, and that really f*cked her up! She struggled with perfectionism, overcoming childhood abuse by a family member, an eating disorder, codependency, and anxiety. Her journey through all of this is amazing, and one of hope and inspiration! She now helps family caregivers in codependent situations break free from guilt and live full lives outside ...

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S4 EP49: Vanessa's Story - The Weight Of Betrayal

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2024/12/05

Send us a textVanessa Cardenas is a ‘Betrayal Recovery Specialist’, but what exactly is that? and why is she a specialist? Well, as Vanessa explains, when “we need to talk” is followed by “I’ve met someone," her world as she knew it, was shattered. Vanessa speaks of all aspects of betrayal in this brilliant episode, especially after 20+ years of marriage. This deeply personal experience fuels her passion to guide others through similar challenges. Let’s face it, no one studies betrayal recove...

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S4 EP47: Rachael's Story - 'You Must Stay Married At...

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2024/11/28

Send us a textRachael Needham went through divorce a few years ago, however most of the trauma she experienced was in her toxic marriage. As a Christian woman, she wrestled with the thought of divorce and all that was subtly implied at the thought of divorce. Even though her parents, who were were both pastors, supported whatever decision she made, it was quite a few years before she eventually got ‘unmarried’ because of her religious surroundings.Rachael has written a book to help others fig...

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S4 EP46: Lynn's Story - The Devil You Know

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2024/11/21

Send us a textTRIGGER WARNING: Discussions or multiple forms of abuse. Lynn Stroud was brought up in a house filled with anger and tension, with a father who was a compulsive gambler. On top of that, her father and one of her brothers became overly protective towards her, and would dicate where she was allowed to go, what she could wear and who she could see. The experience that Lynn endured as a teenager would continue into her relationships with men, and her story focuses on one terrifying ...

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S4 EP45: Lori's Story - Born Into Poverty And...

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2024/11/14

Send us a textLori Chenger grew up in poverty, surrounded by addiction and abuse, having to fend for herself as a child and even had to care for her younger brother when she was 7 years old. But what did that mean for the rest of her life, and what was her journey to break the cycle of the life she was born into. We can overcome our own brains, and renegotate our path, and not live in the legacy of our past. Love this epsiode, and you will too!https://www.echoofyes.comhttps://www.linkedin.com...

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S4 EP44: Maria's Story - Life Beyond Childhood PTSD

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2024/11/07

Send us a textMaria Riegger is a banking/corporate attorney by day, and a fiction author by night. Maria’s head has always been in the clouds. From a young age, her mother scolded her for not paying attention; when she was bored, she would make up stories in her head. She has been writing since she was about thirteen years old. Maria’s story starts in her childhood, with abuse and narcasism at the hands of her mother. We follow her journey away from the grasp of her mother, and discuss her st...

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S4 EP43: Holly's Story - From FBI to Surviving Cancer!

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2024/10/31

Send us a textHolly Bertone is a former FBI Chief of Staff for Counterintelligence turned Certified Holistic Health Coach. Holly didnt choose this career change, it chose her when, one day, she diagnosed with breast cancer and an autoimmune disease. Holly had been burning the candle at both ends, over exerting herself, and although living an active life, was not taking care of her diet. She used this diagnosis as a cross roads to take a breath, and regain control of what was important in her&...

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S4 EP42: Brandy's Story - Living With Chronic Illnes

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2024/10/24

Send us a textBrandy Shantz is the host of the ‘Living Chronic’ podcast. She suffers from severe Crohn’s disease after serving near burn pits in Afghanistan. 4 years ago, she began having severe symptoms and ended up suffering a reaction to the Humira she was taking for Crohn’s, which took 19 months for doctors to diagnose!! Upon receiving the diagnosis of drug induced lupus and neurological issues, Brandy worked to recover but never got back to herself. It took her another 2 1/2 years going ...

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