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November 21, 2024 • 32 mins
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Speaker 1 (02:21):
Every year for many years we are. We do our
Adoption Special. So it was my favorite show of the year.
And this year we with the election, Like everything else
in our lives, we had pushed everything till after the election.
We can't think about it till we get past the election.

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And then we woke up and we were so giddy
that all we wanted to do was talk about the election.
We started getting closer and closer and closer. And we
always do it before the Thanksgiving break because many people
travel during that week and so we don't have as
big an audience as we would every other time. And

(03:10):
now the podcast listening goes through the roof, which is
good because then people start listening on the podcasts that
are normally broadcast listeners, but be that as it made.
And the Friday before Thanksgiving is when we do our
Thanksgiving show again in case people are out, so that
we get more interactive calls and engagement, and we really

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enjoy that the things for which you're grateful, thankful, and
there are so many right now, which meant we started
looking at the calendar and realizing we had to do
it today. So we start prepping and reading through all
the materials and building show parts and different elements that

(03:53):
we use. And I said, you know, let me look
up when National Adoption Day is, and you know it's Saturday,
so it would look like we were going to do
our adoption special on National Adoption Day, but we couldn't
because it was Saturday and here but actually we just

(04:13):
got lucky. But my story is we were going to
do it on adoption National Adoption Day, and because it
was Saturday, and then tomorrow is our Thanksgiving, that's why
we do it today. And what ends up happening. You know,
when I was growing up, people don't say this anymore,
but it was a joke, and it was meant as
a money, funny joke. It was never meant it with

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a mean spirit. But when I was growing up, if
you were kidding with your sibling, people would say, you know,
you know, Bobby, you're adopted, and that was a way
of saying, you know, you're not really one of us.
And adoption was one of those things that was talked

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about in that way. It was also one of those
things it was hidden. There were so many adoptions, but
people weren't comfortable with it. They didn't embrace it them
And a common thing to happen was that if a
young lady in high school had a baby, that her

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parents would just adopt care for that child. She would
go on about her life, and later in life an
adult or a late teen would find out that their
older sister was actually their mom, and yeah, there might
be some resentment at first, but it usually turned out okay.

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There were all these different elements of the adoption process,
but they were never talked about, and many people have
just never really talked about it. And every year somebody
will reach out to me. Years ago was David Malsby
at Camp Hope, the executive director that he has adopted,

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and he tells me every year it's my favorite show.
I look forward to it. And he said, you know,
I don't do any meetings during that time. I just sit,
I cry. I think I process. I'm grateful, but I
really it's a cathartic process for me. Every year he'll
send me some long email before it and afterwards, which

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he didn't fail to do again this year. So this morning,
I'm talking to a friend of mine and I'm asking
about a City of Houston issue. And I have not
talked to this friend in years, but I needed some
insight on something that's going on with regard to the
finance at the City of Houston. And he said, so,

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I'm going to try to see if I can't listen
to the show? Are you the show is my life.
You don't act like it's I don't know if I'm
gonna have a bag of Cheetos or not. Just don't
say anything. I might see if I want to. So
I said, I'm gonna see if I can listen to
the show again. What's the time, Oh man, I had
two strikes? Why don't you not listen? That's okay? You

(07:12):
just you pierced my little ego. And he said, what's
it going to be about today? And I said, and
he went into what I had just asked him about
and I said, no, that wouldn't fit with today. Today
is actually our adoption special. We do an adoption special.

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He said, oh, I've heard that in the past. I
didn't realize that was today. And I said, well, we
just kind of make a day up. It is today.
And he said, do you know that so and so,
a very good mutual friend of ours is adopted. And
I said no, I didn't. And he told me the story,
and I thought, I'd love to send a message to

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our mutual friend. And this guy's in his sixties. I
didn't realize you were adopted. It was kind of one
of those. He was at the hospital and his now
mother was the nurse and came home and told her
husband there's this child and a child's going to be
taken to Austin. They're trying to place it for adoption.
It's the most beautiful child. And the husband said, are

(08:20):
you wanting to bring this baby home? And she said yes.
They had two daughters already, and he said, well, that's
fine that you know, that's men in the fifties, sixties seven.
If that's what you want to do, that's fine. Another
mouth feet, that's fine, but would be a good dad.
It just always amazes me. And one of the things
I enjoy most about our adoption special is that people
who are always a little embarrassed, or maybe not quite

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embarrassed but shy about it, or felt weird or felt
odd or felt different, suddenly kind of come into the
light and go, wait a second, I can embrace this.
Today is my day. It's a special day. And that
makes me very, very happy. We believe in adoption. There
are so many different elements to the adoption process. There

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is the person who's adopted and is just grateful that
when they were helpless, because you come into this world
helpless and squawking, that somebody stepped forward and said I
will care for and love this child. That's the base.
Then there are parents who cannot have a child, or
maybe already have a child and choose to adopt, and

(09:27):
the joy they find in that. And then there's always
later in the show, a mother who gave up a child,
which I think is a very courageous thing to do,
who will tell that story. Then there are other reconnections,
people who meet up with their biological parent and that
experience are a biological brother. It is my favorite show
of the year. And I am excited seven one thousand,

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your stories of adoption coming up like a show.

Speaker 6 (10:03):
Your come, stop your crying, Just take my hand.

Speaker 5 (10:23):
Oh lit time, a little.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
Bit to you from all around.

Speaker 7 (10:33):
Oh, I'm so excited to be here. This is my
first time at the laugh Factory. Thank you, thank you.
I got a lot of friends, a lot of family here.
Unfortunately my mother couldn't make it, but I told her
I was performing here tonight, and she said, oh, I'm
sure you will bring great shame to a family. Yep,

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been going on my whole life. Finally, I said to her, mom,
you gotta stop talking to me like that. Okay, first
of all, I'm a grown woman. But more importantly, you
are not Asian. I'm adopted. You're white.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
That one takes a minute. You got to know that
she's Asian to do that. How many people remember? Do
you remember the call from chaos on our show? I
don't remember how many years ago it was, but we've
saved that that call in our archive of adoption show materials,

(11:44):
and I was planning on playing it on the evening
show today. We may play it on this morning show.
We'll we'll see. But it's it's just one of those. Wow,
this is I was out of paper, and Emily has
drawn my ire by not refilling my paper. And so

(12:08):
in the middle of the show, I'm tiptoeing around trying
to replace my printer paper. Because I'm ninety years old.
I like to print everything out. I can't. These young
people today, they don't know what a printer is. They
don't know about the horror that is the printer ink industry,
and it's I mean, it's worse than heroin. They get

(12:29):
you hooked. They'll give you a free printer just to
get you hooked on the printer ink. Printer ink becomes
the bane of your existence. It's worse than alcoholism. Just
battling the printer ink dilemma. Yeah, you're right. People have
done dirty things for printer ink. So I went in.
I had all these adoption related things I needed to

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print out, and my printer was out of paper and
there was no printer in my studio. There's no printer
paper in my studios, no printer anyway, I'm running late.
I can't go all the way down the hall to
get it. So I go in to Ramone's office and
I said, may I please, sir, may I have another
like Oliver Twist and said, he pulls out I thought

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I was an office supply person. I thought I was,
but until I met Ramone. He takes it to a
whole different level. Everything has to be leather, old school heavy.
I mean he's like the Aid de camp to Robert E. Lee,
a British aversion. It's very maybe Lord Wellington. And so

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he pulls out, you know, as if it's the you know,
the golden trundle. He pulls out his hammer mill thirty
two pound paper. If you don't know your paper weights
in the printer, you if you print things, you probably
use a twenty pound, which is standard and you wouldn't
think of it. But it's lightweight paper. He uses a thirty.

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He'll go higher. But man, when you print this thing out,
my printer was was struggling. It was needed a laxity.
Was trying to push that paper out. It couldn't get there.
This is some heavy duty. So now I'm I'm holding
this paper that I've printed on his thirty two pounds.
I mean, it's it's substantial, and it's you've got something

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in your hands. When you've got this paper in your hands,
oh it is our adoption special, and we'll just go
down the list. Derek Euroup, Sir, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (14:25):
Hey, Michael, Hey, I had mentioned or heard you mention
Jordie Tallett maybe a month or two back when you're
talking about the commissioning of the Super Bowl here. I've
been best friends with his oldest daughter since we were
seventeen or so, and we've been dating now for about

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five years. And she was adopted by him. He met
her mom while her mom was pregnant with her and
went ahead and adopted her before she was born, and
her real dad followed them from California here to Texas

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and lived nearby, but stayed out of the picture until
Amanda was eighteen, and then they met. And now Amanda
has stepped up and is being the best mom ever
to my children. I have three children, and she's a
wonderful mom.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I love it, Derek til Jeordie, I said hello, just
so you know, for those who think that this or
that doesn't qualify as adoption, it does on this show.
So does fostering. Our concept of adoption is not limited
to the idea of a husband and wife who cannot

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have a baby, and the coordination through usually intermediaries with
a mother who is giving birth or has given birth,
and them taking that. Maybe that is what most people
think of as adoption. Adoption for me is the idea
that a child deserves love and that if the traditional

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relationships are not in place for whatever reason abandonment, imprisonment, death,
then someone else steps in. Whether that's because that's a
part of the human experience they want to enjoy and
have not been able to biologically, or whether it's their

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daughter's child, or whether it's they're a nurse and it's
someone's child that's abandoned, all of those situations, whatever, they
may be a stepdad who is so beloved by his
children that they say, would you adopt us? We would
like to refer to you as dad. I don't refer
to my children as adopted children. I don't want them

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referred to his adopted children. People will sometimes you know, yes,
two adopted children from Ethiopia. Now I just have two children.
I just have two children. They're not they're not. You
don't refer to them as to right handed kids or
two black kids. I hate that They're just two kids.
They're just my kids. I love my kids the same
way you love your kids. I may love my kids

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more than you love your kids. I don't know. You
may love your kids more than I don't know. We
don't know. I just know that it's not. I don't
see them as adopted. I don't see them as black.
I don't see them as anything else. I see them
as my kids, with all the highs and lows and
foibles and and errors and successes, and need to be disciplined,

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and need to be loved, and need to be provided for.
It's the same things. It's no different than anything else.
It's not an adopted child, just a child, just a
child where you participate in their lives in the way
that you do. Let's go to Leslie. Leslie, you're on
the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart, good morning.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
I'm calling in as a birth mom. I was sixteen
when I had my child and she was placed for adoption.
She actually turned twenty nine last week, and so it's
been a pretty story. She found myself pregnant in February
of nineteen ninety five and she was born November fifteenth

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of that same year. And kept in touch with her
throughout the years, wrote letters back to her adoptive mother
and She would send me pictures and HUDs and gifts
and things, but I didn't see her in person again
until her eighteenth birthday. She wanted to meet me, and
so we did that, and we've intermittently seen each other,

(18:40):
you know, over the years, and text each other and
if she comes to town, visit and things like that.
So it's a pretty story.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
It's a beautiful story. You brought life into this world
and you had a choice not to, and you literally
birthed into being a beautiful child of God. I think
that's an incredible thing. I think it's an incredibly selfless thing.
And you know, it wasn't the first year that we

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did our adoption special that a birth mom called. It
may have been several, but it was one of those
moments that you could have heard a pen drop because
it was such a powerful moment. And since then we
have consistently always had at least one birth mother call in.
You know, we're not going to talk about abortion today

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in the politics behind it, but if we're going to
celebrate life, we have to understand that it's imperfect and
that everybody has to play a part, and that is
the woman who has a childhood. But whatever reason is
not going to be able to care for it.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Michael Berry's.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
The old Man's Bag.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
It is our annual adoption special. It's also a very
happy birthday for our friend Chris Conrad for Public Boot Company,
his labor of love, his passion project fifth Generation Texan
were going to make custom boots and outfit folks in
all things Texan. I got a picture the other day

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that I was authorized to receive and it was Val
Kilmer sitting in one of the chairs there holding a
pair of boots that he was contemplating. And I said,
am I okay? To am I authorized to tell this?
And he said, yep, he knows, he knows we're telling you,
And so I did and he said, I don't know

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if I told you, but we he had he had
come in sometime back and he wanted some badass boots
and so we collaborated with him on that and we
made them for him when he was going through his
awful throat cancer and he does tombstone re enacts re

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enactments and he wears these boots particularly for that, and
it says say on the left boot and win on
the right boot with a lightning bolt on there it's
pretty cool. I just posted it to the Facebook, speaking
of which, Facebook shut me down. The Facebook page, which
is even more complicated, is still up. The one that

(21:23):
we had for years that most of you followed, or
many of you followed. We had to start a new one,
and so if you go poking around looking for Michael Berry,
it's the one that has our show logo. And somebody
kind of as a joke, took the old picture of
me from fifteen years ago and aged it. It's red,
white and blue. It should have about three thousand followers.

(21:44):
We've just been at this for a couple of days,
but I decided, rather than just keep fighting with them,
I would start another page without all the strikes and
all that. And that's I enjoy posting things like this
because we don't have a video element to the show.
So I'd appreciate it if you found us over there
and let me know that you found us on Facebook.
If you send me an email, my response has an

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auto link to it and you can click there and
then you can follow the page that way. All right, Bruce,
You're on the Michael Berry Show. It's our annual adoption special.
Go ahead, my man, Hey, Michael.

Speaker 9 (22:22):
Yes, sorry, Yeah, I'd just like to explain my story
to you a little bit. I'm a married man with
twenty five years happily married. I have three biological children,
but I raised six. When I got together with my
wife a long time ago, twenty five years ago, she
had a little girl. You know, no one was really

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happy that she had that little girl, and I was
so happy. We were friends for a long time before that,
but you know, I didn't really expect us to get
together and end up the way it was. But when
I found out news that she was pregnant, I was
so happy for you know, years later she told me,
you know, you were the only one that was happy

(23:03):
for that little girl. And that little girl now is
my retired army daughter. She served four years in the
army and she got injured over there in the sandbox.
But man, I love her with all mart and so
and so proud of her. And you know, we never

(23:24):
did the adoption papers, but I mean, in my mind,
she's my daughter, and her mind, I'm her daddy.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know, when you look at all the things that
confront societies before computers and airplanes and telephones, it is
the birthing raising and caring for children and then repeating
the process for the elderly. That's from the beginning of time.

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These are the fundamental things that we should never lose
sight of. Jennifer, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart.

Speaker 10 (24:01):
Hey Michael, I love that you're doing a show on adoption,
and I wanted to share my story because I know
other people think about it but don't do it, and
I'd like to encourage them to do it. Because my
husband and I we had one biological child and we're
unable to have another. So in twenty twelve, we brought

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home a little girl and a little boy from Staberpol, Russia,
about four months before the adoption band took place and
Putin took over. And I'll tell you what it was tough.
It was really, really tough. They didn't speak our language
at first. But they're twenty and seventeen now and I

(24:44):
cannot imagine my wife without them. The boy, he's twenty,
he's in college, he's got his head on straight, been
dating the same girl for five years, and he's going places.
In fact, he told his dad and I not wasting
this opportunity. I'm going to make something of myself, and

(25:04):
uh not that we expected that, but it's such a
blessing to hear it and we were just I just
feel so honored we both do to be their parents.
And my daughter my best little friend. I just I
just love her so much. Thank you for allowing me
to share my story.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
You got it. Absolutely. The emails come rolling in and
woman just email me, I'm adopted and I've never told anybody,
just told me. I love it. That's cool. And what
I see it all over the place is people who

(25:45):
care about looking good while doing evil. The Michael Barry Show,
please back there that scene in that Mike Myers did

(26:08):
with him in the double decker bus. What do you
think that did for the cool factor of Burt mckerach.
I was watching a documentary last night on the song
Betty Davis Eyes and Betty Davis was seventy three years old,
and you know she was she was, she was forty

(26:31):
years from her heyday. And Betty Davis shoots to number one,
it wins a Grammy for Song of the Year, it
wins Album of the Year. And her grandkids, who knew
that their grandmother had been kind of famous a long
time ago, all of a sudden revela. You were the

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stuff man. We had no idea, and she said that
for the first time ever, I was cool to my kids.
Here's a little trivia for you, Ramon Jay Roots. Who
are the other two silver screen stars mentioned in that movie?
See if you can remember Gean Harlowe very good? Did

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he get the third one? I'll accept Garbo Greta Garbo.
That's exactly right. Yeah, yeah, there are two others paid
tribute to is the annual Adoption Special, and we start
with Chad. Chad, you're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Michael, Hi, Michael. I've been married for twenty three years.
When I met my wife, she had a one year
old daughter. I pretty much immediately became her father and
my wife's husband pretty much immediately we moved in together.
We had two other children after that. When my oldest

(27:53):
started school, it was about seven, she didn't have my
last name in school, and that really bothered me. I
always wanted the adopted. That was always going to be happening.
So we started the process, and then we get a
letter in the mail saying that her biological father had
committed suicide, which the process just it went extremely fast.
After that, so next thing you know, we're in the

(28:15):
court and we're the first ones on docket. The judge
wanted us first because he had a lot of cases
that he didn't want to do after that. They're not
happy cases always in court, in family court, like you
know that. So we got through. I finally got through it.
I was about very past that I couldn't see, just
balling like you know, ugly man crying. We go to

(28:37):
the chambers. We went through that, took pictures. It was
amazing looking down. I just remember holding her. I've never
not been her father in her eyes. Never, She's never not,
never said that I wasn't her father. I have two
other daughters after her. They're awesome, they're they're great friends.
They don't want to talk about the adoption. He just

(29:00):
wants to be one of his family. To me, oh,
I'm proud of it. I brag. When I meet somebody,
I tell him, tell him how amazing it is there
and just I have three daughters and my wife are
just an unbelievable support team and it all started with her.
And I love it.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
I love it. Jed James, You're on the Michael Berry Show.

Speaker 11 (29:22):
Go ahead, sir, Good morning, Mike, right quick. I met
my then girlfriend wife back in ninety three, late ninety three,
and you know, she had a young boy, it was
like three months old. A few years later we got married,
and a year after that, I adopted.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Cody, and.

Speaker 11 (29:44):
I think it's one of the best things I've ever
done in my life. A few years later, his mom
changed her mind about plans and everything, and she ended
up divorcing me. However, you know, it was a struggle
maintaining that relationship with with Cody from thousands of miles away.
Because I'm a Mariner. I worked in different countries and
all that, but I would always pay child support, and

(30:06):
every chance I could make it to Atlanta, I would
go and visit. And he turned eighteen and he's he
was out on his own, and as much as possible,
I would always try and influence him to read, learn
to read. I taught him to read at a very
young age. And here we are years later. He's thirty
won this past October. Mike, He's got four paths into

(30:27):
his name. He's so smart, he's so great as a
young man, and we play video games together. We talk
like we're we talk like we're brothers. Even though that
there's no question that I'm his dad, and I just
I'm so glad to call him my son, and uh,
it's one of the best things that's ever happened to me.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
You know. That's the important thing for people to understand.
You're not saving another person, You're saving yourself. The reason
to do a kind thing for another person, the reason
to help our veterans beating PTSD at Camp Hope is
not because there's some sad soul and you're swooping in

(31:16):
to save the day. It is to save yourself. Is
the most selfish thing you can do. It will give
you such joy, happiness, fulfillment, and purpose. Jordan Peterson talks
at length about this, is that the pursuit of life
should not be happiness. The idea that we're going to

(31:38):
achieve this giddiness, this happiness, and we're just going to
be smiling, and that will mean that we don't have
to work, and we are wealthy and we can just
buy things and people will attend to us and we
won't have to do anything. The idea it will be
so wealthy that we won't have to do anything, and

(31:58):
that that will lead to happiness, but it never does.
Actually we think it would, but it never does. What
we should pursue is purpose, should pursue a mission, a
sense of accomplishment. All of the great joys in life
are as a result of sacrifice and discipline and struggle

(32:22):
and prevailing winning a Super Bowl. I suspect is is
good or better than any drug you could ever buy
without the side effects, because it is hard to sacrifice
raising a child. The pride you have when your child
walks across that stage at the graduation, because it's not
just your child that's doing that. You're there, You contributed

(32:45):
to that. It's beautiful. Brohen. I'm sorry to interrupt our
adoption special, but I just got a message from Orange.
A search is underway for men who held up the
driver of a Brinks truck at a credit union in
Orange County. In this just does not happen. This is
somebody I would have gone to school with, and they

(33:07):
have jacked the Brink struck. Don't listen. Yes, I will
accept a portion of it as a peace offering, as
your sort of pastoral figure for the Golden Triangler makes
your mind doesn't have any die packs in it, those things,
that's a mess. I have a buddy named Ray Briars,

(33:31):
and he owns a company called the Pipe Yard, Inc.
NC dot com. And if you have a project that
needs carbon steel pipe, he stocks everything you need new
surplus secondary you name it, rat hole, mousehole, conductor casing,
pipe piles, sign poles, structural road bors, dredging. If you're

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now have listeners all over the country who heard me
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