Take This Personally with Morgan Huelsman

What if the reason you feel stuck has nothing to do with willpower? Hypnotherapist Peter McLaughlin breaks down the truth about the subconscious mind and how it impacts your habits, relationships, and healing. After being diagnosed with Leukemia and Lyme disease, he was told he had 10 years to live. So Peter began exploring the mind-body connection, and what he discovered not only changed his life, but became his life’s work.

Grief is something every single one of us will experience, but most of us don’t know how to talk about it, process it, or move through it.

Marcia Earhart, founder of Sterling Rose Sanctuary, shares her deeply personal story of losing both of her sons and how that unimaginable pain led her to help others heal. Morgan & Marcia talk about why grief looks different for everyone, the connection between grief, trauma, and menta...

We grow up believing in “happily ever after," but what happens when real relationships don’t look like the movies? Morgan is joined by relationship coach Monica Tanner to talk about the gap between expectation and reality and how to build something even better.

We get into why love alone isn’t enough, the resentment that quietly builds over time, learning to ask for w...

She's in her bridal era! Morgan's fiancé Braden joins for a full, unfiltered conversation about their relationship, engagement, and everything leading up to their wedding.

They answer listener-submitted questions covering wedding plans, communication styles, and what it’s really like navigating such a big life moment together. From deciding on a unique wedding setup to figuring out ...

Kristen Rogers has built a career most music fans never see, but it’s one that’s taken her around the world. As a touring background vocalist, she’s worked with artists like Post Malone, Hozier, Eric Church, and The Killers. In this episode, she shares what life is really like behind the scenes of the music industry: from jumping into major tours with days of notice to navigating tour bus life, massive stadium sho...

🚨 This is the healing conversation everyone needs to hear! Danny Morel joins the podcast for a powerful conversation about healing, awakening, and the deeper reasons behind the patterns we repeat in life.

After the loss of his mother and the collapse of his marriage, Danny began asking difficult questions about happiness, purpose, relationships, and the childhood experiences that shape who we become. He shares how those moments fo...

What if the most powerful thing you could do for your life takes less than 30 minutes and costs nothing?

Morgan brings on Walter Green, founder of the global Say It Now movement, former CEO turned purpose-driven changemaker, and author of This Is the Moment. After losing his father...

Morgan is joined by professional matchmaker Alessandra Conti for an honest, behind-the-scenes look at modern dating. From screening clients and asking tough compatibility questions to spotting anxious-avoidant dynamics in real time, she explains what actually makes a match last, and what quietly causes relationships to fail.

They unpack why so many people f...

What happens when love slowly turns into manipulation?

Ginny Priem shares her journey from a successful corporate career and a life that looked “perfect” on the outside to a relationship filled with gaslighting, financial abuse, infidelity, and emotional trauma she didn’t recognize until it nearly broke her. Together, we unpack how narcissistic abuse hides in plain sight, why red flags are so easy to miss, and ho...

Love isn’t just romance. It’s friendship, family, self-worth, trust, and the way we show up for ourselves. In this Valentine’s episode, I open up about what real love actually looks like after heartbreak, betrayal, and learning the hard way. Drawing from anonymous listener questions and my own lived experiences, we talk about trusting again after abuse, learning to believe...

Money isn’t just math. It’s memory, identity, fear, hope, and survival. Shannah Game, certified financial planner and author of Unraveling Your Relationship with Money, shares why so many of us feel anxious, ashamed, or stuck around money... regardless of how much we make.

We talk about financial trauma (the o...

What happens when you finally reach the goal you’ve been chasing and it doesn’t feel the way you thought it would? 

I’m joined by Nick Shelton, a U.S. Air Force veteran, bestselling author, and speaker who has lived multiple lives, sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity. Nick opens up ...

Jessica Buchanan was a schoolteacher from Ohio who followed a calling to serve overseas. That calling led her to East Africa, meaningful humanitarian work, and eventually into one of the most terrifying experiences imaginable. Jessica shares the full story of how she was kidnapped in Somalia, held hostage in the desert for 93 days, and ultimately rescued by SEAL Team Six. She opens up about the moments leading up to her captur...

Braden is officially back, but this time as my fiancé. 🤍 We are sharing the entire engagement story from both perspectives: designing the ring, coordinating the surprise with my family, the chaos leading up to the proposal at Botanica… and yes, the peacoat that almost caused our biggest fight right before he proposed.

From the moment he asked my dad for permission to the exact words he planned to say on one knee, not...

From growing up without modern technology to teaching English, raising children, exploring archaeology, flying planes, riding motorcycles, and living alone on the land she loves for over three decades, my 87-year-old Grandma Bernie reflects on the choices that shaped her life and the lessons she’s still learning.

I sit down with her on the Kansas farm sh...

What if new parents aren’t failing, but simply unsupported? Morgan sits down with Michelle Pool, nurse at Maven Clinic and the person behind One Minute Milk Bites, for an honest, deeply validating conversation about breastfeeding, postpartum mental health, and why modern parents feel so overwhelmed.

This week’s episode is equal parts chaotic, honest, and deeply meaningful as Morgan is joined by her sister Taylor and her 11-week-old niece, Collyns for a special holiday week conversation.

Taylor opens up about becoming a first-time mom, what no one truly prepares you for after birth, and how motherhood reshapes everything. From marriage and identity to sleep, patience, and trust in your own instincts. They talk candidly ab...

The holidays can be magical: full of twinkly lights, sweet treats, and time with people we love. But they can also shine a spotlight on grief, change, loneliness, and the complicated emotions so many of us quietly carry this time of year. In this episode, Morgan shares vulnerable listener voice notes about the real struggles happening behind the highlight reels. From divorce, illness, mental ...

Rhaina Cohen (author of The Other Significant Others) joins us to reframe how we think about friendship: past, present, and possible futures. Rhaina explains why intense platonic bonds once held public, ritualized importance (think “sworn brotherhoods” and romantic friendships of the 17th–19th centuries), how marriage’s role shifted to ...