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Spirit Talk Show is a storytelling podcast built on genuine human connection. Each episode features meaningful conversations, live cold readings, and shared creativity with remarkable guests. Stories unfold naturally—sometimes eerie, sometimes funny, sometimes deeply moving—through personal memories, original works, and AI-assisted storytelling. Every episode honors real voices, lived experiences, and the power of being fully present. Spirit Talk Show is a space where stories are shared, voices are amplified, and connection comes first. Now go tell a story worth telling.

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  1. 2d ago

    S7-EP19: The Way Back to the Soul: Soreya James on Metamorphosis

    She begins every gathering in silence. Then she sings before she speaks. And I keep thinking about that, because it tells you everything you need to know about how Soreya James understands people. She knows that the truest things do not arrive through argument. They arrive through resonance. Through something in one human being that calls to something in another, underneath all the words. Soreya James is a Kundalini yoga teacher, dance therapist, breathwork practitioner, and retreat facilitator with over twenty years of experience working with women in the deepest places a person can go. She has overcome addiction, depression, and psychosis. She has been publicly cancelled in a way that went viral worldwide. She has been called a cult leader by people who had never been in a room with her. And she kept going. Not because she had no other choice — but because she understood something about transformation that most people spend their whole lives trying to avoid. It asks for everything. In this episode, Soreya walks us through what she means by metamorphosis — not self-improvement, not a better version of who you already were, but a complete dissolution and becoming. She talks about what it means to stop being what happened to you, why traditional therapy can sometimes hold people inside the very story they are trying to leave, what sits in the cellular body across seven generations of ancestry, and why the first step toward grace only needs to be one step. She also reads live from Metamorphosis — her digital book and immersive experience woven with music, meditation, and breathwork — and what she reads will stay with you. Find Soreya and her work at https://soreyajames.com/  Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

  2. Oct 28

    S7-EP18: Luminous Theater: Xavier Nuez on the Alleys That Saved His Life

    In 1987, Xavier Nuez walked into a job interview, was asked his name, and his brain snapped. Not metaphorically. His nervous system broke down in the chair, and he has never been exactly the same since. He lost his friends, his confidence, his artistic vision, and very nearly his future. He moved back in with his parents. He became afraid of the most loving people in his life. He came close — closer than he will tell you quickly — to being the man he later found buried in a fifteen-inch gap between two buildings, wearing shredded pants, no shirt, eyes meeting his for one second in a flashlight beam before Xavier turned it off and walked away knowing exactly who that man was. What saved him was an alley. Six years after the crash, he picked up a camera one night, walked into the dark part of town where no one goes at two in the morning, stepped into a forgotten alley, and immediately became calm. The darkness was a warm healing blanket. The city sounds went quiet. He set up his lights and spent the next ninety minutes alone in a place the world had decided did not count — and lit it up like the inside of a church. He did that for 25 years. 1,200 nights. Gangs surrounded him. Guns were pointed at him. Police questioned him repeatedly. None of it stopped him, because his psychological terror had been replaced by physical danger, and that was a trade he was willing to make every single time. What he didn't understand until much later was that every dark corner he transformed into something beautiful was him rewriting his own story. The monster he thought he was fighting turned out to be a frightened little boy who had been trying to protect him all along. His book Alleys and Ruins is two books in one — a memoir told in a quiet, intimate voice, and a set of adventure stories told in a voice you will not recognize as the same man. The photography alone is worth the price of admission. The Motor City shot. The compactor. The Toronto alley where everything changed. Find Xavier and Alleys and Ruins at https://www.nuez.com/alleys-and-ruins-press Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

  3. Oct 21

    S7-EP17: Lee Ann Walling: The Salt and Light Express: Reinvention, Faith, and the Courage to Begin Again

    What if the bravest chapter of your life begins after everyone assumes your story is already written? In this episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Doyle welcomes author Lee Ann Walling, a journalist, political strategist, church musician, and lifelong storyteller who published her first novel at the age of 69. After decades shaping public policy, writing speeches, and helping communities tell their stories, Lee Ann finally turned inward and wrote her own. Her novel, The Salt and Light Express, follows Chris—an older woman traveling west in a small RV to scatter the ashes of her longtime partner at Bryce Canyon. Along the way, grief collides with faith, prejudice meets compassion, and unexpected friendships reshape what healing can look like. In this heartfelt conversation, Lee Ann reflects on reinvention later in life, the courage to write after decades in other careers, spiritual searching, and why it’s never too late to begin again. The discussion touches on grief, LGBTQ love, silent retreats, journalism ethics, and the strange beauty of the American West. Along the way, Lee Ann reads from the opening of her novel, sharing the story of a woman learning—sometimes awkwardly, sometimes painfully—how to live again after loss. If you’ve ever wondered whether creativity, love, or purpose has an expiration date, this episode offers a hopeful answer: it doesn’t. Because sometimes the road west isn’t about escaping the past. It’s about discovering the next right thing. Learn more about Lee Ann Walling and her work: https://www.leeannwalling.com/ Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

  4. Oct 14

    S7-EP16: Kristan Swan on Heart Mapping, Self-Discovery, and Coming Home to Yourself

    The goal is not to fix yourself. That one idea sits underneath everything Kristan Swan does. Most of what we are handed about self-work assumes something is broken and needs repairing. Kristan starts somewhere else — with understanding yourself more honestly, and with more compassion than you would usually allow. In this episode of Spirit Talk Show, Doyle sits down with Kristan to talk about self-discovery, journaling, healing, and what it really means to come home to yourself. Kristan shares the story behind her journaling practices, Spaghetti on the Wall and Heart Mapping, and how creative reflection helps people move past shame, inherited expectations, and the pressure to keep performing a life that no longer feels true. Together, they explore the stories we inherit from family, culture, marriage, faith, and fear — and how those stories shape us without our ever noticing. Kristan talks about learning to listen inward, and about building rooms where people can finally tell the truth about their own lives. This is a conversation about identity, belonging, vulnerability, and the courage it takes to ask: who am I beneath all the roles, expectations, and noise? A warm, reflective episode for anyone feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or ready to begin again. Learn more about Kristan Swan: https://kristanswan.com/ Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

  5. Oct 7

    S7-EP15: The Rock by the River: Greg on God, Healing, and Hydrogen

    He was not supposed to survive. His cardiologist told him his heart was like a Toyota Corolla towing a giant trailer — it was just going to burn out. He had been through more pain than most people carry in a lifetime, and he had made peace with the idea that nature would simply finish what he had not. Then one summer afternoon, a friend needed company at a river, and he went along. He found a rock. He sat down. He closed his eyes and started listening. What happened next on that rock — in the silence between the water sounds, in the deepening levels of his own mind — is not something he can fully explain in a single conversation. He met a presence he describes as pure love and pure law. He asked the question he had been carrying since childhood: where were you? And he got an answer that took away every last piece of his anger. He also came home with a completely different relationship to water. Greg's journey from that rock led him deep into the science of molecular hydrogen — through Japanese research, top engineers, and the longest-lived population on earth — and eventually to the development of a health protocol built around the cleanest water, the cleanest air, and the removal of the chemicals that quietly compromise the human body every single day. He looks twenty-five. He is almost fifty. He will tell you that is not a coincidence. This is one of the more spiritually and scientifically layered conversations we have had on this show. Come with an open mind. Come with your questions. Come ready to be surprised. Find Greg and the Hydrogen Protocol at https://myhydrogenprotocol.com Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

  6. Sep 30

    S7-EP14: A Family, Maybe: Lane Igoudin on the Love That Asks You to Give Everything to Something Not Yet Yours

    There is a kind of love that asks you to give yourself completely to something that is not yet given to you. Foster parents know this love. It is patient in a way most love does not have to be. It is brave in a way most love never has to be asked to be. And it does not make headlines — it just keeps showing up in the dark, in the kitchen, at three in the morning, holding a small person and refusing to let the uncertainty in the room become the uncertainty in the embrace. That is the love Lane Igoudin has lived. In 2004, Lane and his husband Jonathan entered the Los Angeles foster care system — the largest in the country — hoping to give a home to a child who needed one. What followed was years of legal uncertainty, courtroom battles, and a day Lane still calls curbside delivery, when a newborn's arrival hung on a phone call that would not come. His memoir, A Family, Maybe, tells that story without polish and without sentimentality, because he believes some stories do not belong only to the person who lived them. In this episode, Lane and I talk about what it really means to parent through uncertainty, the moment that almost broke him, what he has learned about loving children whose future is decided by strangers on a timeline you do not control, and why he believes the foster system as it stands does not serve the kids it claims to protect. He will tell you he is not a hero. I will let you decide that for yourself. Find Lane and his book A Family, Maybe at laneigoudin.com. Now go make a story worth telling. Goodnight. Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

  7. Sep 23

    S7-EP13: Teri M. Brown: Stories Carried Across America

    What happens when you stop waiting for “someday” and start living the story you’re meant to tell? In this luminous episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Doyle and producer Howie welcome Teri M. Brown—a novelist, memoirist, mother, grandmother, and adventurer whose life reads like a testament to resilience, curiosity, and quiet bravery. Born in Athens, Greece and raised as an Air Force kid all over the world, Teri learned early how to carry home within herself. After homeschooling four children, building a successful nonfiction career, and surviving a long chapter marked by emotional abuse, she made a bold decision: to finally write the fiction she had been holding inside for years. What followed was extraordinary. From Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, inspired by real stories of Ukraine, to An Enemy Like Me, a deeply human exploration of identity and war, to Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, Terri’s novels blend history with empathy in ways that linger long after the final page. Along the way, she and her husband pedaled a tandem bicycle more than 3,000 miles across the United States—an experience that reshaped her sense of courage and became the heart of 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure. In this conversation, Teri reflects on: Writing fiction after fear and self-doubt What long journeys teach us about strength and trust Why stories feel like people you’d want to have lunch with Letting go of the bucket list and choosing to begin now How creativity, honesty, and motion can heal what once felt broken As always, Spirit Talk Show weaves in a signature tribute story and shared reflections—creating space not just to talk about Teri’s work, but to honor the life that shaped it. This episode feels like opening a window and letting the light in. It’s about movement—across miles, across genres, and across the invisible lines that separate who we were from who we’re becoming. Spirit Talk Show: now go tell a story worth telling. Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

  8. Sep 16

    S7-EP12: Hiraeth: Elizabeth Bromstein and the Cabin She Found at the End of Her Own Story

    There is a Welsh word — hiraeth — for the feeling of being homesick for a place you have never been. A longing so specific it sits in the chest. A sense, just around the next corner, that something is waiting for you. That you are always about to arrive. Elizabeth Bromstein felt it for decades. She had the city, the career, the resume the world told her to want. And the whole time, she kept dreaming about a cabin in the forest. Then the industry she worked in collapsed. And instead of grabbing the nearest safe shore, she let the wave carry her. She moved into the woods. She built a life out of tarot, perfume, and writing — out of the raw materials of her own what if. And the dreams finally stopped. Because she had arrived. In this episode, Elizabeth and I talk about what it means to follow a feeling you cannot fully name, the real reason tarot works even for people who think tarot is nonsense, what a ghost ceiling can teach you about reality, and why the most interesting place to stand is always the middle ground — not believing, not disbelieving, just honestly curious. She teaches tarot to skeptics and overthinkers, people who flinch at the word manifest, and somehow ends up teaching them more about themselves than they expected to learn from a deck of cards. She does not ask you to convert. She asks you to look. Find Elizabeth at beaumontdriveperfumes.com Spirit Talk Show – Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups Hosted by Doyle Follow Spirit Talk Show on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spirittalkshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doylespirittalkshow/ X: https://x.com/doylespirittalk  Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/spirittalkshow  www.spirittalkshow.info  If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, rate, and share it with someone who might need it. Sponsored by Incogni — they remove your personal data from broker sites automatically so strangers cannot buy your information. Get protected: https://deal.incogni.io/spirittalkshow

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Spirit Talk Show is a storytelling podcast built on genuine human connection. Each episode features meaningful conversations, live cold readings, and shared creativity with remarkable guests. Stories unfold naturally—sometimes eerie, sometimes funny, sometimes deeply moving—through personal memories, original works, and AI-assisted storytelling. Every episode honors real voices, lived experiences, and the power of being fully present. Spirit Talk Show is a space where stories are shared, voices are amplified, and connection comes first. Now go tell a story worth telling.

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