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The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and After

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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58:46

Mental Health: Learning to Live on the Other Side of...

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/03/24

There are moments that don't give you any warning. You're living your life, things are working, and then something happens that makes you question every single thing you thought you knew. Including yourself.That's where Chris Magleby found himself in 2017. A small piece of a pot brownie triggered a full psychotic episode, one that landed him zip-tied in his front yard, fighting cops he didn't recognize, hearing sounds that weren't there. It was terrifying. And it was, in a strange and quiet way, the

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48:19

Domestic Violence: Breaking the Silence Men Are...

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/03/17

Some of us spend years learning how to look okay when we are not. We get good at reading rooms, making ourselves small, keeping quiet. Not because we want to, but because it felt like the only way to stay safe. If that sounds familiar, this episode might feel like someone finally said the quiet part out loud.Eugene Z. Bertrand grew up navigating a home shaped by domestic violence. For most of his childhood and into early adulthood, survival meant masking. It meant saying he was fine when he was not

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47:51

Existing vs. Living: A Mother's Journey Back to the...

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/03/10

There is a version of grief that nobody warns you about. It is not the loud kind. It is the quiet kind, the one that creeps in slowly until one day you are walking your dogs on a trail you love and you realize you no longer feel connected to the ground beneath your feet. That moment, as small and ordinary as it sounds, was the one that changed everything for Dianette Wells.Dianette has lived her life reaching toward something higher. She grew up in flat Southern California, looking at snow-capped

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01:02:43

Unsaid: The Stories That Disappear Before We Think to...

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/03/03

There is someone in your life whose story you have not asked about yet. Maybe you keep meaning to. Maybe you figure there is time. This episode is a quiet reminder that time is the one thing none of us actually have on hold.Cristian grew up in Paraguay, surrounded by family lunches that stretched into the afternoon, stories layered on top of stories, and a kind of closeness that most of us only read about. He carried all of that with him, through Stanford, through Google, through the blank

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59:58

Grief: Learning to Stay Open When Everything Hurts

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/02/24

If you have ever loved someone so deeply that the thought of losing them rearranged everything, this conversation is for you. It is for the moments when you try to stay steady while the ground is already shifting beneath you. It is for the quiet questions that surface when life no longer follows the plan you thought you were living.Kathleen Quinn shares a story shaped by devotion, sudden illness, and the long unfolding of grief. She speaks about caring for her husband through a devastating

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04:27

The Small Moments That Quietly Change Your Life | Bonus

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/02/22

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that stay with me after more than two hundred conversations on The Life Shift.Today I am talking about the small moments that end up changing everything. Not the dramatic events we can point to, but the quieter shifts. The split second where you choose something different. The small yes or no that later becomes a turning point. The thought you almost ignore until it finally lands.In this reflection, I talk about the

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56:57

Grief: Making Something Beautiful From What Broke

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/02/17

Some moments do not ask to be fixed. They ask to be felt. To be witnessed. To be held gently until something inside us loosens just enough to breathe again.In this conversation, I sit with someone who understands that grief is not something to get over. It is something to learn how to live with. Day shares what it was like to lose his father, lose a relationship, and find himself standing in a quiet in-between space where nothing felt stable. Instead of rushing through that season, he slowed down

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5:34

What It Really Feels Like to Start Over | Bonus

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/02/15

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 starting over and the quiet moments when someone realizes life cannot keep going the way it has been. These beginnings rarely look dramatic. They show up as discomfort, restlessness, or a small truth that refuses to stay quiet. They arrive long before anything changes on the outside. In this reflection, I talk

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6:09

The Moment You Finally Say the Truth Out Loud | Bonus

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/02/08

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 the moment you finally say the thing you have been holding in. It is rarely dramatic. It is rarely loud. Most of the time it is a quiet shift in the air. A small release. A truth that has been waiting for you to stop hiding. In this reflection, I talk about the fear that comes before speaking the truth, the relief

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01:02:48

Burnout: Crying in a Dark Theater

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/02/03

Burnout does not always look dramatic. Sometimes it looks like a successful career, a stable job, and a life that makes sense on paper. And still, your body knows something is wrong. If you have ever found yourself in the middle of a midlife career shift, questioning your work, or wondering why you feel exhausted even when everything seems fine, this conversation will meet you right where you are.In this episode, I talk with Ellen Whitlock Baker about the quiet unraveling that led to her

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5:55

How We Slowly Rebuild After Loss | Bonus

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/02/01

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 the quiet ways people rebuild after loss. Not the dramatic versions we often hear about, but the slow work that happens in ordinary moments. The rebuilding that takes shape in private. The kind no one sees. In this reflection, I talk about how grief reshapes us, how healing does not mean going back to who we were,

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5:21

Who You Become After Everything Breaks Open | Bonus

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2026/01/25

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 identity and what happens when the life you have been holding together finally cracks open. Identity is not fixed. It shifts and bends. It breaks down and rebuilds. It grows through fear and through honesty. And most of us do not realize how much we have been holding until something inside us asks for change. In

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6:10

Grief Does Not Look the Same for Everyone | Bonus

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/01/18

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 the way grief shows up differently for each of us. Grief is not a single feeling. It is not one path or one expression. It shifts. It breaks open. It softens. It surprises you. And sometimes it says the opposite of what you think it should. In this reflection, I talk about the pressure many of us feel to

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6:33

Learning to Trust Yourself Again | Bonus

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/01/11

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that keep showing up after more than two hundred conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about self trust and what it means to rebuild it after years of doubt, shame, or fear. Trusting yourself is not a single moment. It grows slowly through messy progress, small choices, and the courage to keep showing up even when you feel uncertain. In this reflection, I talk about the back-and-forth

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58:05

She Found Her Voice After Years of Silence

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/01/06

Some moments reshape us before we even have words for them.Erin Snow carried one of those moments for most of her life. What began as a buried truth became a quiet weight she learned to navigate on her own. And somewhere along the way, that silence started to turn into something else. A nudge. A voice. A call to reclaim the parts of herself that had been taken. Her story is not only about what happened. It is about the slow return to her own strength, the tenderness of being

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5:55

You Don’t Have to Be Healed to Begin | Bonus

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

2026/01/04

This episode is part of The Things We Carry, a solo series shaped by the themes that keep showing up in the conversations on The Life Shift. Today I am talking about the belief that you have to be fully healed before you can change your life. I do not think that is true. Healing is not a finish line. It is not a requirement you have to meet before you are allowed to grow or move forward. In this reflection, I talk about why healing and change often happen together, and why

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67:40

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

The Life Shift | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

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 | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

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 | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

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 | Conversations About Life Before and... ·

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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