Join John as he discovers the tremendous bravery of Jacky Pittore as she relates the dramatic story of her overcoming suicidal ideation and homelessness to become a role model, mother, and successful life coach.

Duncan Forbes is a Personal Training Manager for Lifetime, he is a singer/songwriter, and he is an author. He sits with John to talk about masculinity, spirituality, and how to build amazing teams.

Episode 153 - Lucia Chiarelli. Lucia Chiarelli is a talented author who has written memoirs, a novel and advice books. She joins John to talk about her remarkable personal life and her work.

Episode 152 - Tannersville. John and cohost Janna Wallack talk with some of the boys from the band Tannersville, a storied band of the Hudson Valley in NY.

Episode 151 - Conor Walsh. Radio personality and singer/songwriter Conor Walsh joins John to walk through his music, antidepressants, the difference between religion and church, and his remarkable comeback from a season of loss.

Episode 150 - Women Of Music. John and cohost Janna Wallack are joined by Macy McKnight, Amy Blu, Max Mayer, and Bernadette Dingman to promote the Women Of Music event benefitting Miles Of Hope. https://milesofhope.org/ It got out of hand and stayed out of hand, we seriously both laughed and cried and friends were made.

Episode 149 - Carolyn Marosy. Fresh off The Lifted Project, Singer/Songwriter Carolyn Marosy joins John to talk about making her own world because she didn't fit into this one.

Episode 146 - Dora Celestino, Community Educator, CAPE. John talks to Dora Celestino about the life changing work she and the staff of the Council on Addiction Education & Prevention are doing in Dutchess County. For more information on this critical mission, please visit https://capedc.org/

Episode 146 - Dora Celestino, Community Educator, CAPE. John talks to Dora Celestino about the life changing work she and the staff of the Council on Addiction Education & Prevention are doing in Dutchess County. For more information on this critical mission, please visit https://capedc.org/

Episode145 - Janna Brooke Wallack. Janna is the author of Naked Girl, available everywhere you buy your books. The book is all of the feels, tragic, hilarious, looming, sensitive. Janna is the same in person. She can make you laugh as easily as she can sit you back down. Learn more on her site.

Episode 144 - Tom Heany. Still coming down off of The Lifted Project two days earlier, John recruits show and personal friend Tom Heany to play his remarkable music and talk a bit.

Episode 141 - Leslie Wayne with cohost Trish Burton. I think Leslie Wayne's space makes her holy . She and Trish share their brave and inspirational and heartbreaking stories together.

Episode 139 - Kerry Dotson. Kerry is the interim Executive Director of The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. For more information on their programs and events, please visit: https://www.centerforperformingarts.org/

Episode 138 - Kristen Leigh with cohost Trish Burton. John and Trish talk to a regional hero, Nurse Practitioner Kristen Leigh of Dutchess Family Health. Kristen founded Dutchess Family Health when she became frustrated with the current system, and knew there was a better way to deliver quality healthcare on a personal basis. She is what healthcare should be. To learn more: https://dutchessfamilyhealth.com/

To celebrate the release of her new single "Horizon" Becki Davis returns to the show. To celebrate the release of his new vinyl "Bridges and Crossroads, Thom O'Brien returns to the show. It just so happens they do it together.

Episode 136 - James's Warriors. John sits down with like minds Donna Thomas and Dawn Cavaccini of James's Warriors, a non-profit dedicated to direct presentation to parents and children around suicidal prevention. Amidst tears and laughs they have as real a conversation about what suicide is and isn't, and what you can do if you are there, or if you know someone who is there. For more information: https://www.jamesswarriors.org/

Train N Thrive is a fitness company born out of founder Julie Durkin's own journey. Cohost Cristin Roe guides Julie, Natasha and Alice through their own stories and the importance of fitness not only to body but also to mind.

Ann Marie Speros-Mallon lost her parents and her career. But she followed the bubbles to see where up is. In a moment of divine inspiration she said, "I have never painted but I will paint." The rest is a story of fulfillment, as her company takes off, her artwork grows in popularity, and her parents look down and say, "I knew it."

School psychologist Mary Beth Neils is the author of A New Reflection, a guide to productive introspection and change. She sits with John to discuss the process she has created and the changes she has made in her own life.

A moving discussion with Paula Young, an honest, direct, generous, and kind person. We talk about the holes left by not having parents, whether criminals are sick or evil or both, how to love, what she wishes she did differently and her amazing successes. She has a tremendous moral compass, is funny, we both cried, and we both celebrated.