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

Luke Colson and Kyle Wise
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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 positive and hopeful approach, to really find out how these sudden events have effected our guests, and hear about the tools they use to overcome the subsequent struggle and adversity. We will focus on the journey to success and recovery, and hear stories of how our guests overcame trauma, and mental health challenges like ptsd, anxiety depression and phobias that have often lead to addiction, alcoholism, and disorders. While we will focus on the events themselves, and the lasting effects of these moments, our goal in this podcast is to concentrate on the positive journeys of resilience, recovery and hope that comes from these extraordinary stories. Join us for the ride of your life, and other peoples too! Why listen? We hope that our listeners will feel comfort, empowerment, strength and hope through this community of people and the stories we share. Everyone’s experiences are unique, but the circumstances around recovery and healing can be a shared and comforting journey. EMAIL: wtfmupodcast@gmail.com MUSIC by DeVyruss from Pixabay SPOTIFY: For reasons that no one at Spotify knows, our podcast does NOT play on the Spotify App from IOS devices. It works on every other platform, and even works on Spotify App from Android and works just fine on Spotify for Desktop. Spotify tell us they don' t know how to fix it. We love our listeners and encourage you to find another way, and another platform, and we apologize, this one is out of our hands.

  1. 5d ago

    S6 EP37: Tara's Story - Surviving Hurricane Dorian!

    Send us Fan Mail Tara Pyfrom, is a writer from the Bahamas now living in Canada. In 2019, Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm. Her wife, their six-year-old daughter, their five dogs and her, ended up trapped in their attic for over 24 hours while nine feet of ocean came into their house. They lost about 90% of what they owned. However, they were incredibly lucky. A lot of people didn't make it out. Six weeks later, they moved to Canada and started over. That's where the really f****d up part began. Everyone understands the immediate disaster. Your house is gone. You're rescued. People check on you. There are cameras. There's news coverage. People bring things. And then, eventually, everyone goes home and gets on with their lives. Except someone who has gone through such terror, doesn’t necessarily get to. Tara developed PTSD. She was trying to be a wife and a mother while also figuring out how the hell you rebuild a life when the one she had is gone. They moved countries, brought five dogs across an international border, started over with very little and tried to function inside a completely new immigration system while dealing with everything that had just happened. At one point she was so overwhelmed by the paperwork, the constant decisions and just trying to keep everything moving that she completely lost it, over dinner! This was one of the first times Tara really understood that she wasn't okay. She’d survived a Category 5 hurricane, but it was her kid refusing to eat dinner that finally pushed her over the edge. There was also a weird pressure to be grateful because they had survived. She I was grateful. But gratitude doesn't magically make everything that happened disappear. Tara eventually wrote a memoir about the whole thing, The Ocean in Our Blood. While the book is heavy on surviving the hurricane, what happens when the adrenaline is gone and you're left trying to figure out how to be a person again?. This is an epic episode with a blow by blow account if their survival! Site: www.tarapyfrom.com IG: www.instagram.com/tarapyfrom FB: www.facebook.com/tarapyfromwriter Order on Amazon: https://a.co/d/35OHhcV Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

  2. Oct 24

    S6 EP36: Jodie's Story - Raising A Son With Level 3 Autism!

    Send us Fan Mail Jodie Herbert brings a lifetime of lived experience caring for family members with complex disabilities, including raising a son with Level 3 autism. Navigating significant support needs and disability systems became deeply intertwined with her own life and eventually shaped her work as a disability advocate.  Life can change in the blink of an eye, and with the birth of her first son, things would never be the same again. This is an amazing episode filled with hope, humor, and triumph over the most life changing of events! Business: https://www.abilitypathways.au/.   Media: https://www.guestsonair.com/profile/jodie-herbert Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

  3. Oct 16

    S6 EP35: Joshua's Story - Paralyzed at 15!

    Send us Fan Mail At fifteen, Joshua Waldron was told he would never walk again. After five years of rehab he destroyed his wheelchair and decided that not walking, was not an option. Join us this week to hear his extraordinary story!! Joshua has spent the decades since testing one idea: difficulty chosen deliberately is the most efficient route to a life worth having. He calls it Hard Is Fun, and his book on the philosophy launches in January 2027.  Thanks Joshua we loved having you on the show! Site: https://hardisfun.com/ Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

  4. Oct 10

    S6 EP34: David's Story - A Serious Back Injury Changed My Life's Direction!

    Send us Fan Mail David Shepherd was working in investment banking when a serious back injury forced him to step away and reassess the career and life he was building. That period ultimately led him to retrain and create a very different professional future. Another inspiring story about how a serious life changing event can actually correct your life's course in unexpected ways! Site: https://www.guestsonair.com/profile/david-shepherd LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidshepherduncomplicatedfinancialadvice/ Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

  5. Oct 2

    S6 EP33: Dr Maria-Elena's Story - Trauma: The Monster Inside

    Send us Fan Mail Dr. Maria-Elena Lukeides is a clinical psychologist whose interest in understanding suffering grew from her own experiences of a difficult home life, anxiety, depression, and feeling unseen as a young person. A formative encounter with a psychologist changed the direction of her life, leading her into nearly three decades of work in mental health. She now combines clinical psychology, mindfulness, and psychedelic-assisted therapy to explore trauma, healing, and meaning. In this episode, we have some amazing conversations around living through emotional pain, finding support, and discovering a path toward healing. Site: https://www.guestsonair.com/profile/dr-maria-elena-lukeides Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

  6. Sep 25

    S6: EP32 - Jeff's Story - Wrongly Convicted At 17 Years Old!

    Send us Fan Mail Jeffrey Deskovic is a wrongful conviction expert, attorney, speaker, exoneree, and founder of The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice, where he works to free innocent people and change the laws that allow wrongful convictions to happen in the first place. His mission is rooted in lived experience. Arrested as a teenager and wrongfully convicted at 17, Jeffrey spent 16 years in prison for a murder and rape he did not commit. He was finally exonerated in 2006 through DNA testing, after the actual perpetrator was identified. Rather than allowing that injustice to define the rest of his life, Jeffrey used his compensation, education, and hard-earned insight to build a foundation dedicated to exoneration, policy reform, and public education. This is an AMAZING episode! Site: https://www.guestsonair.com/profile/jeff-deskovic Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

  7. Sep 18

    S6 EP31: Michael's Story - The Choice Trauma Can't Take Away

    Send us Fan Mail Trauma has a way of convincing us that what happened to us will always define who we become. For years, Michael Rodriguez, believed many of the fears, insecurities, and survival instincts he carried were simply part of who he was.  His childhood was shaped by addiction, domestic violence, and periods spent in women's shelters with his mother as they escaped an unsafe home.  As an adult, life brought different challenges. The loss of his father to cancer, years of financial hardship while sleeping on the floor of an attic to keep his first business alive, burnout, anxiety, divorce during COVID, and the constant responsibility of leading a growing business while raising a family. What Michael has learned is that adversity changes us, but it doesn't have to define us. Healing wasn't a single breakthrough moment. It came through thousands of small choices: learning to forgive without excusing, choosing purpose over resentment, replacing survival habits with healthier ones, and recognizing that resilience isn't something we are born with, but is something we intentionally develop over time. Michael wrote a book, Become Unshaken: Joy, Regardless. And today he helps individuals, leaders, parents, and organizations understand that while none of us gets to choose every chapter of our story, we all have the opportunity to influence the chapters that come next. What an amazing conversation! Thanks Michael! Website: Home - Become Unshaken Podcast: Become Unshaken Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Book: Become Unshaken: Joy, Regardless: Rodriguez, Michael: 9781632969477: Amazon.com: Books Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

  8. Sep 11

    S5 EP30: Robin's Story - Living With Strangers!

    Send us Fan Mail Robin Rosenbluth's mother died when she was young, and her abusive and neglectful father put Robin and her sister in foster care - even though other family members offered to take them. Later, with the help of a high school guidance counselor, she was encouraged to continue her education and find scholarships to fund college. What makes her story unique is the year she taught and lived in Songa, a remote village in northern Kenya. There, Robin began to heal from the abuse and abandonment she'd suffered, finding more connection with the local people than with her father or foster parents.  Her memoir, LIVING WITH STRANGERS: Healing a Wounded Heart in a Distant Land, describes her time in Kenya as well as her childhood. It's a story of triumphing against the odds, an urgent call to do better for the children currently in foster care, and a testament to the enduring importance of study abroad programs as a tool for forging understanding and connection in a fractured world. This is a deeply moving, personal ad inspiration episode, and shows that no matter how hard the struggle, we can still be freedom! Author website: https://www.robinrosenbluth.com/ Substack: https://robinrosenbluth.substack.com/ Simon & Schuster website to purchase/order books: Simon & Schuster Amazon purchase: Amazon Smells Like HumansLike listening to funny friends discuss curious human behavior.Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify Support the show

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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 positive and hopeful approach, to really find out how these sudden events have effected our guests, and hear about the tools they use to overcome the subsequent struggle and adversity. We will focus on the journey to success and recovery, and hear stories of how our guests overcame trauma, and mental health challenges like ptsd, anxiety depression and phobias that have often lead to addiction, alcoholism, and disorders. While we will focus on the events themselves, and the lasting effects of these moments, our goal in this podcast is to concentrate on the positive journeys of resilience, recovery and hope that comes from these extraordinary stories. Join us for the ride of your life, and other peoples too! Why listen? We hope that our listeners will feel comfort, empowerment, strength and hope through this community of people and the stories we share. Everyone’s experiences are unique, but the circumstances around recovery and healing can be a shared and comforting journey. EMAIL: wtfmupodcast@gmail.com MUSIC by DeVyruss from Pixabay SPOTIFY: For reasons that no one at Spotify knows, our podcast does NOT play on the Spotify App from IOS devices. It works on every other platform, and even works on Spotify App from Android and works just fine on Spotify for Desktop. Spotify tell us they don' t know how to fix it. We love our listeners and encourage you to find another way, and another platform, and we apologize, this one is out of our hands.

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