The Beautifully Broken Podcast

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. Today, I’m exploring a truth that’s changed everything for me and my clients: we are not broken machines; we are adaptive, conscious beings in dynamic systems of repair.

After years of sitting with people navigating complex chronic illness, I’ve realized that our biology is not just chemical, it’s also energetic and informational. Our nervous systems are const...

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. Today’s guest, John Golden, is a walking miracle—and a man who’s defied odds most of us can’t even imagine. After coding on an ER table from a full arterial blockage known as a “widowmaker,” John was revived and left with a second chance at life. We talk about the raw emotion of facing death, how gratitude becomes your default operating system afterward, and ...

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. Today, I’m joined by the luminous Dr. Shivani Gupta, founder of Fusionary Formulas and author of The Inflammation Code. Shivani’s story begins with a home full of mold, hair loss, and a reminder that even the healthiest among us can get blindsided by hidden toxins. What followed was a journey of deep functional medicine testing, emotional regulation, and fier...

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. Today, I’m joined by Martha Carlin, a woman who turned heartbreak into groundbreaking innovation. When her husband John was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, Martha refused to accept the standard “there’s nothing you can do.” Instead, she built a team of microbiologists, chemists, and researchers and founded The BioCollective, one of the first large-scale stool ban...

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. Today, we’re going deep with Dr. Chris Shade, founder of Quicksilver Scientific, the mind behind many of the world’s most advanced detox and hormone technologies. Together, we explore how inflammation, leaky gut, and energetic stagnation are connected — and how the next generation of liposomal and peptide therapies are helping people heal from the inside out.

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Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. This week, I’m joined by Dr. Evan Hirsch, a board-certified holistic and integrative physician who’s walked the talk of healing from severe chronic fatigue. After five years of debilitating illness that left him sleeping under his desk, Dr. Hirsch discovered the powerful interplay between environmental toxins, infections, and the nervous system — what he now ...

In this episode of the Beautifully Broken Podcast, I’m joined by Aleena Kanner, a certified athletic trainer, neuromuscular specialist, and breathwork educator, for a deep dive into the biomechanics of healing. Aleena breaks down how subtle shifts in the jaw, teeth, and eyes can create—or resolve—chronic pain patterns. We explore how asymmetries in the body reflect deeper imbalances in the nervous system, and how restoring balance ...

This one’s personal. In this episode, I welcome Wes Fossile to share his powerful story—what began as dizziness and anxiety ended with the diagnosis of a brain tumor. Wes walks us through the fear, the MRI machines, the slow recovery, and ultimately, the birth of a mission: to make cancer risk quantifiable, preventable, and accessible to everyone.

We unpack CatchBio, a revolutionary new AI-driven platform that calculates your person...

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. In this reflective episode, I explore the concept of bio-individuality—how each of us carries a unique blueprint of DNA that unfolds into a living, breathing expression of life. I share personal stories of illness, healing, and loss that illuminate the incredible polarity of the human experience: how some of us are biologically resilient, while others are pro...

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. Today, I’m joined by Dr. Chad Yarbrough, a pioneer in genetic testing who’s changing the way we think about privacy, precision, and personalized care. Dr. Chad takes us from his early days in functional medicine—watching nonverbal kids go verbal and infertility cases resolve—to building his own lab for complete data control.

We dive deep into the science of SN...

In this episode of the Beautifully Broken Podcast, Freddie Kimmel is joined once again by Nathalie Niddam—nutritionist, biohacker, and creator of the Longevity and Peptide communities. The two dive into an honest and practical dialogue about what it really means to support the body in today’s world.

Freddie shares updates from his own journey, including building the Biological Blueprint Academy, his personal experience with GLP-2 mi...

Welcome back to Beautifully Broken, where healing meets high performance. In this episode, I sit down with Dean Hall—an inspiring adventurer whose story blends tragedy, survival, and extraordinary feats. Dean’s life was upended by the sudden loss of his wife and a severe cancer diagnosis. Instead of surrendering, he swam the entire 187‑mile length of Oregon’s Willamette River, while living with active cancer. That grueling, frigid ...

In this solo episode, Freddie Kimmel invites listeners into an intimate health check-in, sharing what’s been working in his own healing journey after two decades of navigating chronic illness, surgeries, and autoimmune dysfunction. He discusses how his inflammation is at the lowest it has ever been, thanks to practices like microdosing GLP-2 peptides, experimenting with the Avacyn circulation device, and adding quercetin and vitami...

This episode is not just a conversation—it's a soul-stirring experience. Alex Bradley joins the podcast to share his deeply personal journey of heartbreak, spiritual deconstruction, and the reclamation of purpose. From waking up at 4:20 AM to coach fitness classes to leading impactful events and walking alongside others in their healing, Alex brings raw honesty and contagious energy to the mic.

We explore how movement is more than p...

Tara Garrison is not your average fitness coach. In this raw, unfiltered episode, we peel back the curtain on Tara’s profound journey from a life that felt out of alignment—being a Mormon stay-at-home mom of four—to a ripped, radiant leader in holistic health and mindset coaching. This episode isn’t just about gains in the gym—it’s about the gains that come from deep emotional work, spiritual realignment, and radical self-love.

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What if changing the water you drink could transform your gut health, lower inflammation, and boost vitality? In this episode of the Beautifully Broken Podcast, Freddie sits down with Dr. Paul Barattiero, founder of Echo Water and pioneer in molecular hydrogen research. Paul shares his journey from helping his wife overcome debilitating health issues to developing one of the most trusted hydrogen water systems in the world. He expl...

Discover the game-changing world of nanobubble oxygen therapy with Jason Applewhite from Bimini Hydrotherapy! In this episode of Beautifully Broken, host Freddie Kimmel chats with Jason about how Bimini's devices deliver oxygen through your skin via tiny nanobubbles—2,500x smaller than a skin pore—while you soak in a bath or foot tub.

Say goodbye to claustrophobic hyperbaric chambers! Learn why nanobubbles could be a superior altern...

In today’s episode of Beautifully Broken, I chat with water advocate Helen Christoni about what’s really flowing through American pipes—and how easy it can be to switch from suspicion to solution. Together we unpack the toxin-laden cocktail in most tap water (think microplastics, PFAS, arsenic, chlorine, chloramines, lead, drug residue), and explore how municipalities manage—but don’t eliminate—contamination.

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Today on the Beautifully Broken Podcast, I’m joined by Steve Revelli of American Biotech Labs—a trusted voice and formulator behind the cutting-edge Silver Biotics product line. We explore the multi-layered benefits of silver nanoparticles, including their powerful antimicrobial action that spares your natural flora while defending against pathogens like MRSA and VRE. Steve breaks down the difference between ionic and colloidal sil...