Well, That F*cked Me Up! Surviving Life Changing Events.
BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down, by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime.. and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet positive and hopeful approach, to really find out how these sudden events have effected our guests, and hear about the tools they use to overcome the subsequent struggle and adversity. We will focus on the journey to success and recovery, and hear stories of how our guests overcame trauma, and mental health challenges like ptsd, anxiety depression and phobias that have often lead to addiction, alcoholism, and disorders. While we will focus on the events themselves, and the lasting effects of these moments, our goal in this podcast is to concentrate on the positive journeys of resilience, recovery and hope that comes from these extraordinary stories. Join us for the ride of your life, and other peoples too! Why listen? We hope that our listeners will feel comfort, empowerment, strength and hope through this community of people and the stories we share. Everyone’s experiences are unique, but the circumstances around recovery and healing can be a shared and comforting journey. EMAIL: wtfmupodcast@gmail.com MUSIC by DeVyruss from Pixabay SPOTIFY: For reasons that no one at Spotify knows, our podcast does NOT play on the Spotify App from IOS devices. It works on every other platform, and even works on Spotify App from Android and works just fine on Spotify for Desktop. Spotify tell us they don' t know how to fix it. We love our listeners and encourage you to find another way, and another platform, and we apologize, this one is out of our hands.
Episodes
It is an absolute pleasure to have Dr Maurice Turmel on the show for a candid, relatable, and inspiring chat. Dr. Moe’s path wasn’t a straight one—it was hard-won. His father was physically abusive, and he grew up surrounded by strict Catholic indoctrination. Emerging from a childhood marked by emotional trauma, religious repression, and self-doubt, he forged a transformative journey of healing and self-emancipation. ...
This week Sydney Curtin joins us for an amazing episode that shows just how trauma can affect choices, and that it is possible to use our own traumatic experiences for good as we continue to recover. At just 13 years old, Sydney lost her Mother to suicide, after years of drug addiction. Her father became abusive in the aftermath, and Sydney would continue to dive into unhealthy relationships though her teens and into ...
Jess Lalumiere was driving home late one night from a dream job as a chef that she had recently started. She was minutes away from her house on a quiet road, when an oncoming car seemed to be driving at speed on the wrong side of the road. Before Jess could react, she would find herself involved in a huge head on collision, that would turn her world upside down! It was just these two cars on the road, with no one else...
Join us as we re-visit one of the most listened to episodes in the last 5 years! And yes, we are still following Harriett's journey across Social Media. Every now and then a guest comes along, where we ask ourselves, how on earth are they still here to tell the tale? Harriet Barnsley was waiting at a Bus Stop in Birmingham, England, with her friend, just like they did a thousand times before. Two speeding cars ca...
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Erik Hatterscheidt was a Business Major and took over his parents resort business when he finished school with a great deal of pressure on his shoulders to help revive the ailing numbers and use his knowledge to turn things around.
As it happened, what Erik had learned really didn't translate into his parents smaller business, and he suffered in silence as things got worse, eventually t...
Andy Campbell is a resilient survivor and inspirational author who has overcome numerous life-altering challenges - a victim of childhood sexual abuse and bullying, the loss of his mother at an early age and the eventual estrangement from his father, his battle with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and the loss of his youngest son to suicide. Despite enduring multiple surgeries, grueling chemotherapy treatments, and the tra...
Michael Shaw joins the WTFMU! Podcast to discuss mindset, after experiencing a total loss of confidence and self belief at a pivotal time in his life, that nearly took him out! Michael has overcome the traumas of a violent childhood, losing his father to suicide, & raising kids battling anxiety, and above all, found the resilience to battle back after what he thought was going to be his career in Fitness took a su...
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Jonathan Schwartz was once Hollywood’s most trusted financial advisor, managing icons like Beyoncé, Mariah Carey, and Gwyneth Paltrow. Known as the "diva whisperer," he seemed untouchable. But behind the glitz and glam, his secret drug and gambling addictions led him to embezzle over $4.7 million from the very clients he was meant to protect, resulting in a fall from grace that shoc...
WTFMU Welcomes Rachel Pastor and Tiffany Hurd from Golden Rule Mushrooms. This podcast remains impartial to opinions on these kinds or medications and remedies and we want to keep an open space for all.
Rachel talks about overcoming a grueling a five-year battle with heroin addiction and homelessness, and its a really engaging story about just how overpowering and destructive addiction can be.
Rachel discovered the tran...
Dave grew up in an almost perfect household: calm, loving and trusting. That all changed when he met and married an abusive woman. In Dave' words 'By all accounts she resembles a narcissist. She pretended to be a wonderful mother to our children and a loving wife to me. Behind closed doors, it was a different story' Dave was a natural father as a stay at home dad who was respected and loved by his child...
At age twenty-four, Sara Alvarado bought a one-way ticket from the USA midwest to Mexico determined to heal from years of hard partying and sexual trauma. In this raw and inspiring episode, Sara takes us on a journey as she struggles with being newly sober, unexpectedly in love - and then suddenly, terrifyingly pregnant. Guided from afar by her wise and loving mother and her emerging spiritual connection, Sara confide...
Brinn Langdale was 18 years old, when she was asked a question that changed her life forever. Someone asked if her older brother had ever "done anything to her." The answer was yes. For 12 years she had been molested by him.
Growing up she had no clue what was happening and because of all the ways that the trauma was presenting itself, she just thought she was crazy. She describes herself as a poster child f...
Vanessa Abraham was a mother, a working professional, and a speech therapist, until a rare disorder left her voiceless, motionless, and dependent on others for survival. This story is a must listen and simply extraordinary!
Join us as Vanessa recounts the days and weeks that the disorder took over, her struggle through the worst of it, and her fight for recovery!
Vanessa has written and Amazon Best Seller, Speechless, ...
Dr. Patricia V. Smith, joins us from Jamaica, to bring us her incredible story of escaping a terrifying life as a child on the streets of Jamaica! Dr Smith was homeless by then age of 10, and she talks openly about abandonment, abuse, and homelessness in her home town, to journeying to the USA, and becoming the CEO of Sweet P Home Care, a multimillion-dollar home healthcare company in New York. Patricia’s story inspir...
After being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, Sandy Duarte turned her experience into an opportunity for personal growth and healing.
In less than a year, despite being separated from her family (who are in Canada while she is in LA), she survived stage 4 cancer.
In this episode we discus the moment she found out, and the mindset that she adapted to guide her through her recovery journey!
She wrote her book, Cancer Rambli...
Let's revisit this amazing episode, with Lena Papadopoulos, one of the most jaw dropping episodes in recent series. Lena was in love, her year long relationship had seen her plan to move in with her boyfriend, and even meet his family, however, something wasn't right. Constant 'work trips', always changing plans, gaslighting, and emotional manipulation had Lena second guessing her own sanity. Ultim...
Rob Kalwarowsky had it all, a high achiever with a well paid job. All that changed when a toxic boss began to pick away at Rob. Over time Rob lost his self belief, confidence, self love, and eventual lost the will to live. This nightmare scenario is all too common and can bring people to their knees, often bringing up childhood traumas of rejection, and parental abuse. This episode follows Rob's journey out of th...
'Apple Cider Vinegar' is a show on Netflix about Belle Gibson, the woman that fooled the world that she had brain cancer, and healed it 'holistically'! She made millions, taking charity money and raking in donations for a disease she did not have. It has sparked a wider conversation about beating Cancer holistically, steering clear of Chemo and Radiation, and is it even possible?
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Amanda Harris has experienced significant childhood trauma, a wildly violent abusive relationship in her late teens and early 20’s and has battled and overcome addiction and various other adversities including losing everything she owned in a house fire!
However, Her greatest awakening, and the birth of her business, came after the loss of her sister to suicide while, Amanda was eight months pregnant. This experience ...
Joe L has lived a very very crazy life, and he is only 40! His path to success and stability, is rooted in a series of devastating personal tragedies that reshaped his life. This episode is explicit and comes with a trigger warning, as we cover topics of all kinds of abuse. Joe had an abusive, alcoholic mother who died young to her drinking. After his father’s catastrophic accident led to the loss of a $15 million bus...
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