Notes from the Edge
Gamut Podcast Network
152 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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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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Complex Trauma, Survival Identity & Disability Advocacy with Ashley Townsend
What if the thing you call your personality is actually something you learned to perform in order to survive? Ashley Townsend is a transformational and integration coach and complex trauma recovery specialist who…
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What Do We Reach for When Purpose Is Gone? PTSD, Gambling Addiction & Life After War with Sean Carberry
What do we reach for when the thing that gave us purpose, identity, adrenaline, and belonging is suddenly gone? Sean Carberry is an award-winning journalist and former NPR Kabul correspondent whose experience raises a…
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Why Do We Self-Sabotage? EFT, Nervous System Safety & Trauma Responses with Carol Look
What if the behavior you’re trying hardest to get rid of was once the very thing that helped you survive? Carol Look is a psychotherapist and founding EFT Master who has spent decades helping people understand the…
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Closure, Betrayal Trauma & Rebuilding Self-Trust | Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
How much longer are you willing to wait for someone else to validate what you already know happened? Lisa Lacy is a trauma educator and relationship advisor exploring one powerful idea: sometimes closure is not…
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When You Can’t Afford to Fall Apart: Grief, Fatherhood & Starting Over with Lee Ehlers
What happens when everyone needs you to be okay, but you’re barely surviving yourself? Hollywood screenwriter and producer Lee Ehlers spent years learning how to survive rejection, but nothing prepared him for the…
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Why men are lonely and healthy masculinity with Michael Ostrolenk
What if real masculine strength has less to do with pushing harder and more to do with learning how to regulate yourself, feel deeply, and stay present under pressure? Michael Ostrolenk, licensed marriage and family…
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Emotional Sobriety, Addiction Recovery & Healing What Still Hurts with Dr. Dean & HollyKem Sunseri
What happens when you stop the addiction, but the pain underneath it is still running your life? Dr. Dean Sunseri, licensed professional counselor, and HollyKem Sunseri, certified life coach with more than four…
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Who Told You That? | Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
Who told you that you were too sensitive, too difficult, selfish, dramatic, unstable, or simply too much? And when did someone else’s opinion become part of your identity? In this solo episode of Notes From the Edge,…
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Men’s Mental Health, Loneliness & Healthy Masculinity with Jason Lange
What happens when men are taught that vulnerability is weakness, but connection is exactly what they need most? Jason Lange is a men’s embodiment coach and group facilitator who believes men don’t need to become…
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ADHD, Autism & AuDHD: Trauma, Masking and Late Diagnosis with Ellie AuDHD Capstick
What happens when you spend decades believing you’re lazy, too much, unreliable or simply doing life wrong, only to discover your brain has been working differently all along? Ellie AuDHD Capstick is an AuDHD educator…
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Can Worms, Sprouts & Laughter Change Your Life? with Cathy Nesbitt
What if the secret to a healthier, happier, more sustainable life is hiding in a bin of worms, a jar of sprouts and one really good belly laugh? Cathy Nesbitt is an award-winning entrepreneur and laughter yoga teacher…
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Regret, Grief & Moving Forward Without Moving On with Stephanie Renner
What if moving forward doesn’t require you to “get over” what happened? Stephanie Renner is an attorney, keynote speaker, and creator of the Regret to Resilience Method™, a framework for moving through unresolved…
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Menopause Didn’t Make Me Crazy. It Exposed What I Was Already Carrying. Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
What happens when menopause doesn’t create the crisis, but exposes everything your mind and body have spent decades carrying? Lisa Lacy, writer and host of Notes From the Edge, explores how surgical menopause collided…
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Sexual Addiction & Betrayal Trauma: Boundaries, Grief and Healing with Roxanna Johnson
What happens to the spouse when the person with the addiction gets all the attention? In this deeply personal conversation, Lisa Lacy sits down with author, speaker and advocate Roxanna Johnson to talk about the side…
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The Longest Distance: Men’s Mental Health, Male Loneliness & Emotional Healing with Daniel Sterling
What happens when achievement becomes a substitute for being seen? Writer, memoirist, and speaker Daniel Sterling joins Lisa Lacy for a candid conversation about men’s mental health, male loneliness, emotional…
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Coercive Control & Trauma Bonding: Why You Can’t “Just Leave” Solo Episode with Lisa Lacy
Why does someone stay in a relationship they know is hurting them? And why can leaving feel almost physically unbearable, even when you know you need to go? In this special solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa…
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Integrative Psychiatry: Root-Cause Mental Health, Depression & Whole-Person Care with Dr. Naveen Thomas
What if psychiatry looked beyond symptoms and asked a different question: What else could be happening here? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Dr. Naveen Thomas, board-certified…
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Designing a Life After Divorce: People-Pleasing, Reinvention & Creating a Home That Feels Like You with Jodi Koch
What happens when you realize the life you worked so hard to hold together no longer feels like your own? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with Jodi Koch, CEO of Elizabeth Erin Designs and…
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Beyond the Mind: Consciousness, Trauma, Identity & the Search for Meaning with Dean Graves
What if stress isn’t simply something to eliminate, but something trying to show us where healing needs to happen? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with mental health counselor, meditation…
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Women Have It Harder: The Pay Gap, Sexual Violence, Self-Sacrifice, Menopause & the Cost of Being Female
Women have it harder. There, I said it. And no, this is not a man-hating manifesto. I love men. In fact, parts of my romantic history would suggest I may have loved them a little too enthusiastically. This…
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Teen Drug Use, Kratom & Addiction Prevention: What Parents Need to Know with Dave Kopeny
The drug landscape facing teenagers is changing faster than many parents realize. In this second conversation with author, educator, private investigator, and ASAP Community founder Dave Kopeny, we go straight into…
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Kitchen Design, Home & Reinvention: Building a Life You Love with Marvin W. Towler
What if designing a kitchen and designing a life have more in common than we think? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with kitchen designer and longtime construction professional Marvin…
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The Book Was Never Just the Book: Turning Your Story into Legacy with Missy Maxwell Worton
What if the story that will not leave you alone is not merely asking to be written, but asking to become a message that changes lives?In this live episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with her publisher,…
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Suicide, Radical Listening & the Truths We Leave Unsaid with Sean Wellington
This conversation includes candid discussion of suicide, suicidal ideation, attempts, grief, and the emotional realities carried by survivors and the people who love them. What happens when someone finally tells the…
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No Longer Leading With the Wound with Hilary Momberger Powers
What happens when success arrives before you have had the chance to understand who you are? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with transformational mentor, trauma-informed coach, motivational…
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Hope Without Sight: Learning to Feel Deeply Without Losing Yourself with Saylor Cooper
What happens when empathy feels less like a gift and more like carrying everyone else’s emotions inside your own body? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with former client, author,…
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I Worked It. But It Didn’t Work. Why Didn’t You Tell Me?
When doing everything “right” in recovery leaves you smaller, sicker, and further away from yourself.For two years, I did exactly what I was told. Six days a week. Sometimes two meetings a day. Inpatient…
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You Can't Automate Relationships with Beth Granger
Beth Granger on visibility, digital trust, critical conversations, and staying human in an increasingly automated world Technology can help us reach thousands of people, write polished messages, and build impressive…
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How Chronic Devaluation Shapes Confidence, Relationships, and Ambition
What happens when nothing you accomplish ever seems to be enough? In this solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the long-term impact of chronic devaluation, especially when it begins in childhood.…
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Clawing Back From the Bottom with Bryan Blackmon
Bryan Blackmon left Texas for California chasing a dream. Instead, he found himself homeless, sleeping in his car, and drowning in alcohol and addiction. Then an elderly landlord named Elaine chose not to give up on…
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I Was Wounded… and Slightly Feral
It is exactly midnight, I am editing Notes From a Certified Madwoman, and I have finally realized something: Maybe I was never crazy. Maybe I was wounded, dysregulated, surviving, and just slightly feral. In this…
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WATCH ME with Renee Carbone Fleming
The Price of Waiting for Permission and the Power of Becoming Visible Anyway What happens when a woman stops waiting to feel confident, stops explaining every decision, and starts building the life she knows she is…
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People Were More Comfortable With My Suffering When I Carried It Quietly
Female Anger, Menopause, and What Happens When the Manageable Woman Disappears People celebrate strong women until those women get angry, set boundaries, stop apologizing, or remove access. In this episode of…
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The Last Rocketman: Fear Is Information Not Instruction with Dan Schlund
What happens when the thing that made you feel most alive nearly kills you? “Rocketman” Dan Schlund is one of the last professionally trained Rocketbelt pilots in the world. For a decade, he flew jet packs at events…
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When Your Diagnosis Enters the Room Before You Do
Psychiatric labels, medical dismissal, and what happens when a human being becomes paperwork What happens when a provider sees your psychiatric history before they truly see you? In this deeply personal solo episode…
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What the Hell is Love?
What happens when you grow up without hearing “I love you,” without being held, and without learning what safe, enduring affection feels like? In this deeply personal solo episode of Midnight Menopausal Meanderings, I…
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The Competence Trap with Loren Silverman
Burnout, Boundaries, and Why the Most Capable Person in the Room May Be Closest to the Edge What happens when competence becomes a survival strategy? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with…
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Before the First Hit with Dave Kopeny
How Parents Can Recognize Risk, Interrupt Addiction, and Become Their Child’s Strongest Protective Force Every parent wants to believe their child will know how to recognize danger, make the right decision, and walk…
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Who Got You Here Won't Get You There
Jim Hughes on Identity, Fear, Self-Judgment, and Becoming the Person Beneath the Performance The person who got you here may have been exactly who you needed to become. The achiever. The problem-solver. The founder…
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When Leadership Stops Developing People with Dr. Katie Trowbridge
Curiosity, Compliance, and Teams That Think. Why do capable, intelligent teams stop taking initiative? Sometimes it is not because people are lazy, disengaged, or unwilling to contribute. Sometimes they have learned…
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When Compassion Is Not Enough
What happens when someone you love is in crisis, refuses help, and waiting for them to become “ready” may cost them their life? In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy sits down with attorney, former…
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The Confidence Beneath the Craving
Addiction, Bipolar Disorder, and Rebuilding a Life with the S.O.B.E.R. Method What happens when you remove the substance, but the pain, pressure, and survival patterns underneath it remain? In this episode of Notes…
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THE MONSTERS WE CARRY
Richard Spegal on Dark Fantasy, Mental Health, and the Battles Within Author Richard Spegal returns to Notes From the Edge for a deeper conversation about the profoundly human truths hiding inside dark fantasy.…
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