Fill To Capacity (Where Heart, Grit and Irreverent Humor Collide)
Podcast for people too stubborn to quit and too creative not to make a difference!Join visual artist Pat Benincasa in conversation with a riveting roster of guests to uncover extraordinary stories of everyday people. Listen as they share their quirky wisdom, unlikely adventures, and poignant life lessons! Fasten your emotional seatbelt for this journey of heart, humor and grit!
Episodes
What happens when the doctor becomes the patient?
ER physician Dr. Christina Miller spent years moving fast—hospital coffee, vending-machine candy, adrenaline, and crisis care. She was trained to save lives on the edge. Then lupus stopped her cold and forced her to slow down—and listen.
Chris talks about inflammation from the inside out, how food became central to her healing, and why treating symptoms isn’t the same as...
What happens when curiosity turns into responsibility—and saving stories becomes the work?
In this moving episode, Stephanie Detton, a 4th-grade teacher in Colorado and co-host of Italian American Stories Podcast reflects on growing up Italian American in the West. But this conversation cracks opens something much larger: how family history lives in newspapers, memory, silence—and what’s at stake when no one pays att...
What if the songs that shaped you could one day save you? When Justin Russo watched 4,000 people wave back at him in perfect rhythm during a music festival, he discovered something profound about connection—but it would take years before he understood music's deeper power.
Now, as Director of Programming at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, he's part of a mission asking: how far can music reac...
Tired of doom scrolling? Try life scrolling. This episode tracks down the wild cards- moments that flip the script, rewrite what’s possible, and proves that the future is still wide open. No spoilers — just know this: you’re about to hear ten stories you didn’t see coming! Quiet, bold, disruptive… and absolutely real.
When the world feels predictably dark, hit the reset button, and expect the unexpected!
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In a world wired for breaking news and dopamine scrolling, writer and dad-of-two, Jason Bartz, did the unthinkable- he ditched his smartphone for a dumb phone. Not as a gimmick, but as a line in the sand — for his time, his kids, and his sanity.
Jason takes us into the raw aftermath of stepping off the digital treadmill: the awkward boredom, the unexpected quiet, and the intense way the world starts to show up again — ...
Whoa! In this 7-minute episode, we step into the Candy Machine Cosmos — where you insert something small — a coin, a thought, a risk — and what comes back is always unexpected: sometimes grace, sometimes grief, but always a call to see anew.
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Got emails? A blog? Social media? A website? Then you’ve got a digital trail—but what happens to it when you’re gone?
In this eye-opening episode, Len Rosen—futurist, tech writer, and founder of the site 21stCenTech —asks the questions we avoid: What happens to your Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Apple, and Google accounts? Who has access? Who decides? What just… disappears? From rented movies and dusty blogs to forgo...
The ground keeps shifting. Some truths don’t—won’t. In just 5 minutes, this episode hits where it matters.. Truth. Justice. Memory. Not trends. Not fiction. Friction. Because what matters… holds.
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Motorcycle crash and everything stopped. Kijuan Amey, Former Air Force Staff Sgt. refueling jets at 30,000 feet, entrepreneur, and student on the verge of a pilot’s wings- with broken bones and lost sight- had to decide. What follows isn’t a comeback story. It is a rock-bottom hard reality where every scar, every setback became fuel for a new kind of flight—one powered by faith, defiance, and a stubborn determination...
In rural Queensland, Australia, a young trainer builds trust one horse at a time. At just twenty-something, Rachel Finch runs YP Performance Horses, guiding everything from high-strung racehorses learning to relax to unhandled colts taking their first steps toward trust. She swaps speed for softness, pressure for partnership—and the results speak for themselves. This grounded, gutsy conversation digs into what it real...
Who kept the lights burning when storms raged, men died, and the sea threatened everything? More often than we realize, it was women—forgotten in the records, but essential to history.
In a riveting and deeply human episode, Shauna MacDonald—professor, performer, and cultural excavator—uncovers the overlooked stories of women lighthouse keepers.
Featured on PBS, NPR, and National Geographic, Shauna brings their silence...
When Sue Abderholden took the reins at the Minnesota chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) in 2001, the organization ran on duct tape, a few staff, and big hopes.
Two decades later, NAMI MN has become a statewide leader and national model—transforming how mental health is addressed in schools, jails, hospitals, and homes.
In this candid conversation, Sue reflects on 24 years of advocacy, the power o...
What happens when bedside stories we almost never hear step into the light—and sing? In this episode, Ben Kintisch—chaplain, Cantor, and playwright behind “Life Review: The Hospice Musical” —shares how end-of-life moments became songs that make you laugh, weep, and reach for someone you love.
We get honest about what hospice really is: the power of moments over months, the chaplain’s craft of presence, turning private ...
When the world goes hard, softness isn’t weakness—it’s strategy. This quick episode is about what happens when you answer cruelty… with a seat at the table.
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Plot twist: Gen Z, first to grow up with smartphones and social media 24/7- decide now to unplug?
Meet Olivia Telecky, a 20-year-old Minnesota college student whose article “The Dumb Phone Trend—And Why I Bought Into It” made waves.
With honesty and humor, Olivia explains why she turned her iPhone into a dumb phone—and what that choice reveals about a generation pushing back on doom-scrolling, questioning the pressure...
🐾 What does it mean to truly give someone their life back?
Alyssa Golob, Executive Director of Helping Paws, takes us inside their mission to train service dogs for people with physical disabilities, veterans, and first responders with PTSD.
From a mother's loving calls to her struggling son—"go play with the dogs"—to a 15-year-old girl opening her bedroom door independently for the first time, these sto...
What happens when a veteran’s truth is shaped by a writer, interpreted by an artist, and transformed into something the world can finally see? When the silence of war is met—not with politics—but with art?
With unflinching honesty, Marine Corps veteran and writer Robert LeHeup shares the story behind Bullets and Bandaids, a nonprofit that pairs veterans with writers and artists to turn lived experience into collaborati...
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While the world scrolls through chaos and cruelty, something else is happening—quietly, insistently, beautifully. This episode is a dispatch from that other world. The one where people are building, healing, creating, and connecting—right in the thick of it. Not in spite of the madness, but through it. Because beyond the headlines, the human spirit is busy at work
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What happens when wood becomes voice, and craft becomes calling?
Luthier Nina Poots doesn’t just build string instruments—she brings them to life. Born in the Netherlands and now working in the Scottish Highlands, Nina’s journey has taken her from art education to centuries-old violin-making traditions, with stops at Glasgow Clyde College and the renowned Newark School in England.
She reveals how tea leaves and vibratio...
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