Notes from the Edge
Gamut Podcast Network
145 episodes
Notes From the Edge is where polished stories end and the truth begins. Hosted by writer, trauma educator, executive advisor, and author Lisa Lacy, this globally ranked podcast explores survival, identity, trauma, addiction, recovery, leadership, relationships, and reinvention through raw, deeply human conversations. No scripts. No small talk. Just the stories we were taught to hide, the roles we performed to survive, and the truths that set us free. What did you perform in order to survive? Welcome to the edge. www.lisalacy.com
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What If Looking Fit Is Hurting You? Sustainable Men’s Fitness with Kevin Gomes
What happens when you look healthier than ever but feel worse than ever? Former competitive bodybuilder and men’s health coach Kevin Gomes knows that contradiction firsthand. After years of extreme training,…
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What Is Your Voice Hiding? Vibrational Voice Healing with Heather Schmid
What if your voice is still carrying the pain you never had permission to express? International recording artist, opera singer, and creator of Vibrational Voice Healing, Heather Schmid joins me to explore the…
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Edge Note: Can Betrayal Trauma Change Your Brain?
What happens to your brain when the person you trusted most becomes the source of your greatest pain? Betrayal trauma doesn’t just break your heart. It can fundamentally alter how your brain processes safety, trust,…
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Edge Note: What If Being Right Is Keeping You Stuck?
Why is saying “I don’t know” so uncomfortable? Australian osteopath, educator, and Uncomfortably Curious podcast host Aidan Mill joins Lisa Lacy to explore curiosity, cognitive bias, and why questioning what we believe…
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What If Your Personality Is a Survival Strategy? Trauma Anxiety Resolution with Cedric Bertelli
What if the anxiety, fear, or emotional patterns you’ve accepted as your personality are actually survival strategies from the past? Lisa Lacy sits down with Cedric Bertelli, founder of the Emotional Health Institute…
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What if Staying Safe is Keeping You Stuck? Overcoming Self-Doubt with Carlene Marie
What if the version of you that once kept you safe is now keeping you stuck? Lisa Lacy sits down with Carlene Marie, Master Mindpower Coach and author of Enough Already, to explore how self-doubt, perfectionism,…
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What If Thinking Harder Is Keeping You Stuck? Overcoming Decision Paralysis with Brent Lupia
What if the very intelligence that helped you succeed is now keeping you stuck? Lisa Lacy sits down with Brent Lupia, Performance and Clarity Coach and creator of Externalized Sensemaking™, to explore why intelligent,…
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What If Success Isn’t Enough? Conscious Living Practices with Steve Farrell
What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted, only to discover it isn’t the life you were meant to live? Lisa Lacy sits down with Steve Farrell, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, bestselling author, and…
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What If Being Seen Isn’t Being Known? Authentic Brand Visibility with Drew Gerber
What if being seen isn’t the same as being known? In a world obsessed with personal branding, social media visibility, artificial intelligence, and polished public images, authenticity may be our greatest competitive…
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Edge Note: What If Rehab Rejects You?
What happens when you voluntarily seek help for addiction, trauma, and mental health challenges, only to be told your anger is beyond a rehabilitation center’s ability to handle? In this brutally honest and sometimes…
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Edge Note: What If Your Success Is Hiding Your Burnout?
You can look successful, productive, and completely put together while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. In this Saturday Edge Note of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez,…
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What if different is your power? Self-acceptance with Coach Willie Blake
What if the very thing you spent your life trying to hide was actually one of your greatest strengths? Coach Willie Blake, entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host, and high-performance coach, joins Lisa Lacy for an honest…
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What If Grief Begins Before Goodbye? Suicide Loss, Mental Illness & Healing with Suzanne Sherman
What happens when you begin grieving someone you love long before they’re gone? In this deeply personal episode of Notes From the Edge, host Lisa Lacy sits down with Suzanne Sherman, author, memoir editor, and writing…
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What If AI Became Your Next Employee? AI Workforce Revolution with Jon Rossiter
What if artificial intelligence could give us more time to be human? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, host Lisa Lacy sits down with Jon Rossiter, entrepreneur and co-founder of Zoloto, to explore AI employees,…
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The Money Monster Within: Managing Yourself Before You Manage Your Money | Part 2 with Doug Lynam
What if your biggest financial obstacle isn’t your money, but the unconscious patterns controlling your decisions? Financial advisor, former monk, and bestselling author Doug Lynam returns to Notes From the Edge for a…
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What If One Bed Could Change Everything? Purpose Driven Leadership with Luke Mickelson
What happens when the life you’ve worked so hard to build no longer feels like the life you’re meant to live? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, host Lisa Lacy sits down with Luke Mickelson, founder of Sleep in…
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Edge Note: What if the thing destroying your peace is control?
In this Edge Note solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy gets personal about Bipolar I, trauma, uncertainty, and the exhausting need to control outcomes when your nervous system learned early that powerlessness…
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Edge Note: What if your mind understands the trauma, but your body is still surviving it?
You can understand your patterns. You can know where they came from. You can spend years learning the language of trauma and healing, and still find your body reacting as if the danger never ended. In this Edge Note…
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What if it's still not enough? Achievement Addiction, Human Performance & Finding Meaning with Dr. Jack Groppel
What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted and discover it still doesn’t feel like enough? Dr. Jack Groppel is a pioneering sports scientist and co-founder of the Human Performance Institute whose…
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What If Pushing Through Is the Problem? Burnout, Autoimmunity & Healing with Kristen Renee Appleby
What happens when the thing that made you successful, your ability to push through, perform, achieve, and keep going, becomes the very thing your body can no longer sustain? In this episode of Notes From the Edge,…
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What If Being Capable Doesn’t Mean You’re Okay? Chronic Illness & Survival with Jenna Schutt
What happens when the strength everyone sees is actually survival mode? Jenna Schutt, former cardiac registered nurse and stem cell transplant survivor, joins Lisa Lacy for a deeply human conversation about chronic…
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SPECIAL EDITION: Mental Health Awareness Week | The Psychotic Trifecta
What happens when your mind creates a reality so convincing that everyone else can tell you it isn’t real, and you still know what you saw, heard, felt, and lived? In this Special Edition of Notes From the Edge, Lisa…
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What if success isn’t something you chase, but something you build? Self-Worth, Self-Belief, and Consistency with Amy Lenius
What if sustainable success has less to do with talent, motivation, or doing more and more to do with self-worth, self-belief, and consistency? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Amy…
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Can Chronic Back Pain Be Rewired? Back Surgery Alternatives with Dr. Eric Anderson
What if the pain you feel and the damage seen on an MRI aren’t always the same thing? Lisa Lacy sits down with neurologist Dr. Eric Anderson, MD, PhD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer at Lin Health, to explore chronic back…
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Edge Note: What if positivity is keeping you stuck?
We are told to look for the good, raise our vibration, practice gratitude, forgive, move on, and trust that everything happens for a reason. But what happens when positivity becomes another way to avoid reality? In…
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Edge Note: What Happens When You Stop Searching Outside Yourself
What if the answers you’ve spent your whole life searching for aren’t somewhere out there, but waiting for you to finally turn inward? In this Edge Note of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with…
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What Stories Are You Waiting Too Long to Ask For? Preserving Family Stories with Brad Koch
What stories disappear when the people we love are no longer here to tell them? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with entrepreneur, business coach, former United States Marine, and founder…
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SPECIAL EDITION; The Unbroken Conversation with Liam Beville
Why a special edition? Because every once in a while, a conversation happens at the Edge that feels too important to wait its turn on the calendar. This is one of those conversations. At 18 years old, Liam Beville…
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How Do You Know When Work Becomes Trauma? Toxic Work Culture with Natalie Holder
What happens when the workplace you once worked so hard to succeed in becomes the place you no longer recognize yourself? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with employment attorney, workplace…
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How do you stop performing in your marriage? Somatic Healing in Intimate Relationships with Natalie Vartanian & Glenn Nielsen
What happens when the roles you learned to play in relationships start costing you yourself? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with relationship and intimacy coaches Natalie Vartanian and…
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What Happens When You Stop Fighting Your Diagnosis? Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health Recovery & Acceptance with Reza Ghaemi
What happens when accepting a diagnosis stops feeling like surrender and becomes the beginning of recovery? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author and podcast host Reza Ghaemi for an…
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Can You Regulate a Craving Before It Becomes a Relapse? Addiction Recovery, Relapse Prevention & Nervous System Regulation with Dr. Deborah Rozman
What happens inside your body in the seconds between a trigger, a craving, and a choice? Dr. Deborah Rozman is a behavioral psychologist and President/Co-CEO of HeartMath. In this episode of Notes From the Edge, she…
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Edge Note: What If Telling the Truth About Your Mental Health Could Cost You Everything?
What happens when telling the truth about your mental health could cost you your credibility, your career, or the way people see you forever? In this solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy talks openly about…
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Edge Note: Are You Strong or Just Surviving?
Licensed marriage and family therapist and educator Renée Calhoun joins Lisa Lacy to unpack a deceptively simple question: when does “being strong” stop being resilience and start becoming survival mode? In this…
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What Happens When “Fine” Becomes a Mask? High-Functioning Depression, Immigrant Identity, Motherhood & Survival Roles with Dr. Nneka Oluoha
What happens when being capable becomes the very thing that keeps people from seeing you’re struggling? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Nigerian-American physician, novelist, and…
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What Happens When Trauma Becomes Your Identity? Sexual Assault, Trauma Healing, Reclaiming Your Power, Boundaries & Consent with Amy McKiernan
What happens when something that happened to you starts defining who you are? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with author and survivor advocate Amy McKiernan for a raw conversation about…
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Who Are You Without the Role? Survival Performance, Masculinity, Midlife Reinvention & Narrative Liberation with Jon Symes
What if the person you became to survive is no longer the person you want to be? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with speaker and leadership consultant Jon Symes to explore the unconscious…
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What Does the FBI Teach You About Being Human? From Pastor to FBI: Faith, Trauma, Survival & Human Behavior with Eric Robinson
What happens when a pastor trades the pulpit for a 24-year career inside the FBI? Eric Robinson spent 12 years in Christian ministry before becoming an FBI Special Agent, eventually serving 15 years as a SWAT operator…
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What If Behavior Isn’t the Problem? Childhood Trauma, Adoption, Nervous System Regulation & Trauma-Informed Parenting with Bryan Post
What if the behavior we’re trying to stop is actually trying to tell us something? Bryan Post is a child behavior expert and creator of the Fear to Love Method whose work challenges parents to see difficult behavior…
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Edge Note: Why does chaos feel like home?
Why can peace feel more uncomfortable than the crisis you spent years trying to escape? Lisa Lacy, trauma educator and host of Notes From the Edge, explores one of trauma’s strangest contradictions: the nervous system…
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Edge Note: What Did We Forget After Kindergarten?
What did we know at five years old that we somehow forgot along the way? Tiffany Dennison is a kindergarten and first-grade educator with 22 years of experience whose work centers on play, belonging and…
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What Happens When Success Stops Working? Male Isolation, Emotional Healing & Personal Accountability with Daniel Sterling
Writer and memoirist Daniel Sterling spent much of his life chasing achievement, recognition, and the next version of success until he discovered that some of the hardest work a man can do happens in the few inches…
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What If Your Identity Was Built on a Secret? Late-Discovery Adoption, Family Secrets & Reclaiming Identity with Al Isaacs
What happens when everyone in your family knows the truth about your life except you? Al Isaacs, author of Finding Mary Smith and longtime comedian and improv teacher, joins Lisa Lacy to talk about discovering at 52…
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Are you performing your worth? Trauma, Treatment-Resistant Depression & ECT with Simone Bowyer
What if the traits you think are your personality are actually things you learned to do to survive? Simone Bowyer is a writer and founder of The Light Within Collective, whose work explores what she calls the…
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Would You Look Away? A Family’s Attempt to Escape Nazi Germany & the Cost of Being a Bystander with Ruth Stitt
Would you look away? Ruth E. Stitt is an author and licensed counselor whose family’s preserved letters from Nazi Germany reveal how persecution can unfold gradually, how difficult escape can become, and what happens…
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Are old patterns running your life? Self-Awareness & Personality with Arky Jones
What if the patterns you keep repeating are not who you are, but behaviors you learned long ago and never stopped to question? Arky Jones, creator of Personality Peek, joins Notes From the Edge to explore how…
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What if the traits that make you successful stop working? Complex Trauma, High Achievement, Attachment & Nervous System Survival with Dr. Christopher Barker
Dr. Christopher Barker is a clinical psychologist and author whose work explores complex trauma, attachment, and one powerful idea: high functioning and psychological health are not always the same thing. In this…
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Why is it so hard to leave when they hurt you? Trauma Bonding, Coercive Control & Abusive Relationships | Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
Why can leaving someone who hurts you feel almost impossible? Lisa Lacy, trauma educator and relationship advisor, explores trauma bonding and why intelligence alone cannot protect us from relationships that reshape…
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How do you break free without labels? Faith, Neuroscience & Recovery with Rose Ann Forte
What happens when the life that looks successful from the outside is quietly falling apart underneath? Rose Ann Forte is an international bestselling author and creator of the Choose Freedom® Program, and her work…
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What Happens After You Survive Yourself? Suicide Prevention, Lived Experience & Finding Meaning-Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
What if suicide prevention is about more than keeping someone alive for the next 72 hours? In this special September Suicide Prevention Month solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy speaks from lived experience…
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