Is Certainty Making Us Lonely? with Miles Adcox

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   E41 · 18 Aug 2026 · 10 min

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   E40 · 11 Aug 2026 · 2 hr 9 min

   Finding Success Without Losing Yourself: Larry Fleet on Fame, Fatherhood, and Staying Grounded

   What do you do when you go from singing at local bars to millions of video views, playing at Madison Square Garden with Morgan Wallen, and hearing 20,000 people sing your lyrics back to you? If you’re Larry Fleet, you still shop at Ace Hardware. Larry Fleet writes the kind of country songs that feel like your own memories — jumping railroad tracks in a truck bed, learning how to tell stories in a barbershop chair, the sound of truck tires in the gravel. In this conversation, Larry opens up about the “simple” mistakes we’re making in modern storytelling, what fatherhood has changed in his…

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   E38 · 28 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 41 min

   Is Your Gut Connected to Your Mental Health? with Funcitonal Medicine Practitioner, Dr. Chris Motley

   Have you ever gotten a clean bill of health and still felt like something was wrong? What if the anxiety, the brain fog, the thing you can't explain isn't in your head, but a story your body inherited? Dr. Chris Motley is a functional medicine practitioner and acupuncturist based in Nashville, and the host of the Ancient Health Podcast. For over 22 years, he's blended Chinese medicine, kinesiology, and biofeedback with Western diagnostics to find what standard testing misses — the chronic weaknesses that don't show up on a bloodwork panel but show up in how we sleep, how we digest, and how…

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   E37 · 17 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

   Building Self Worth Without Approval with Tori Kelly

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   E36 · 9 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 32 min

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   E48 · 6 Oct 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

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   E47 · 30 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

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   E46 · 22 Sep 2026 · 1 hr 49 min

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    E45 · 16 Sep 2026 · 13 min

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