Best Audiodiary Podcasts (2026)

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#24: Past Year Review (PYR) and Setting Intentions for Beginner's Mind, Questioning Assumptions, and Consilience in 2025. (REPOST) 34:07

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Send us a text Happy New Year! It's time to do a meaning inventory in order to set intentions for 2026. Toward that end I am re-posting my meaning inventory from last year. Our next episode will delve into how these unfolded and are leading to major career changes. This episode invites listeners to engage in a meaningful past year review, turning a…

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A Soft Place to Land with Frances Southwick, DO 1:01:36

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Physician and writer Frances Southwick tells a deeply personal story about love and illness. Growing up queer in rural Colorado, Frances experiences mysterious episodes of sudden paralysis triggered by intense emotion, beginning in adolescence and persisting for decades without a diagnosis. After years of shame, misattribution, and near-abandonment…

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Medicine Beyond Medicine with Alicia Ashorn & Anthony Thigpen 53:02

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Community health workers Alicia Ashorn and Anthony Thigpen share their personal stories—Alicia's journey through addiction and recovery, and Anthony's path through grief, transformation, and reentry work—and how these experiences shape their care for people returning from incarceration. In the conversation that follows, they reflect on the power of…

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Stories that Save Us with Sharon Fennix 51:29

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Sharon Fennix spent 38 years incarcerated before becoming the hotline coordinator for the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN), where she now supports people returning to the community with empathy, compassion, and lived experience. In this episode, she talks with Emily about reentry, the power of peer support, and the creative life she built inside pr…

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#23: Master Hypnotist Mike Mandel (50 Years) on Ego States, Parts Work, and the Architecture of Mind. 1:34:12

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Send us a text Mike Mandel is a world-leading hypnotist with over 50 years of professional experience. He's performed nearly 5,000 stage shows, trained over 10,000 students at his Toronto hypnosis academy, and co-hosts the Brain Software podcast. Our conversation bridges hypnosis, Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, pain management, and meaning-…

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The Nurse and the Nun with Linda Wick, DNP, APRN 38:32

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Nurse practitioner Linda Wick has spent more than four decades in medicine, beginning her journey as a six-year-old watching nurses care for her injured brother. In today's story, she recalls the early lessons that shaped her career—from the strict nuns who taught her at the College of St. Scholastica to the life-and-death responsibilities of the I…

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Birth and Poetry with Sarah Auna 50:34

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Birth doula Sarah Auna has attended nearly 500 births. Today, she shares the story of one particularly powerful birth—an experience that unfolded not only in the body, but in the mind and spirit of everyone present. Through vivid storytelling, Sarah reflects on the physiology and psychology of labor, the art of creating safety in moments of intensi…

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In This Body with Meghan Rothenberger, MD 47:58

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Infectious disease Physician Meghan Rothenberger grew up feeling uncertain and disconnected from her body. As a teenager, she struggled with an eating disorder, trying to make sense of the changes of adolescence and the cultural messages around her. Years later, as a medical student studying anatomy, she began to see the body not as something to co…

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The Chaplain and the Doctor with Chaplain Betty Clark & Jessica Zitter, MD 56:55

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Physician Jessica Zitter and chaplain Betty Clark to explore their partnership and the making of their film The Chaplain and The Doctor. The documentary, set in Oakland's Highland Hospital, captures the real work of palliative care and spiritual care, alongside a growing friendship between two women who cross lines of race, power, and professional …

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The 100-Year Turnaround in Child Survival with Perri Klass, MD 1:07:24

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Pediatrician and author Perri Klass joins us to discuss the dramatic fall in child mortality, drawing from her book The Best Medicine. She traces how clean water, vaccines, antibiotics, and neonatal care transformed family life, revisits once-feared diseases and the breakthroughs that conquered them, and reflects on the cultural shift that made chi…

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Questions Without Answers with Sarah Manguso 45:09

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Writer Sarah Manguso joins us to discuss Questions Without Answers—a book born from a single tweet that drew thousands of kids' startling, funny, and profound questions, later shaped with New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck. Part poetry, part philosophy, part comedy, it's an anthology of childhood wonder. She also revisits her memoir Two Kinds of Dec…

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#22: Healing Beyond Words - Joanne Twombly on 30 + Years of Treating Complex Trauma With Hypnosis, EMDR, IFS, and Deep Brain Reorienting. 1:16:54

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Send us a text Joanne Twombly, LCSW and author of Trauma Informed Internal Family Systems, has been treating complex trauma and dissociative disorders for over 30 years. In this conversation, she explores how right-brain modalities such as EMDR, hypnosis, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) can sometimes heal what words cannot. We also discuss the ev…

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Reimagining the Medical Drama with Michael Grassi and Daniela Lamas, MD 38:59

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Michael Grassi, veteran TV writer, and Daniela Lamas, ICU physician and writer, join us to discuss Brilliant Minds, a medical drama inspired by the cases and philosophy of Oliver Sacks. Together, they reflect on what makes Brilliant Minds different from other medical dramas: a focus not on miracle cures or fast diagnoses, but on adaptation, empathy…

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Creative Care with Dr. Anne Basting (Crossover Episode with Remo Health) 43:02

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Anne Basting, a scholar, writer, and advocate for creative aging, speaks about her groundbreaking work transforming dementia care through creativity and storytelling. As the founder of TimeSlips and author of "Creative Care," Basting shares how she discovered the power of improvisation to spark imagination, dignity, and joy in people with dementia.…

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First Person Medicine with Dr. Susan Nathan and Thor Ringler 34:36

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Dr. Susan Nathan, a palliative care physician at the Boston VA, and Thor Ringler, a therapist and poet at the Madison VA, share the story of My Life, My Story — a groundbreaking program that brings veterans' voices into their medical charts through first-person narratives. Born from a desire to foster empathy and human connection in clinical care, …

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When the Exit is the Beginning: The Plot Twist with Darlene O. Hightower 44:58

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Description: What happens when a Black executive walks away from a six-figure role with no plan but a promise to reclaim her peace? She writes the book we all needed. In this powerful follow-up to our most-listened-to episode, Darlene Hightower returns to The Concrete Growth Project to talk about her debut book, The Plot Twist: Press Pause and Rese…

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Breaking the Mental Health Stigma in Medicine with Corey Feist 44:17

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Corey Feist, co-founder of the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes Foundation, shares the story of his sister-in-law, Dr. Lorna Breen, a dedicated New York City emergency physician who died by suicide in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Corey reflects on her passion for medicine, the shock and grief that followed her death, and the flood of messages fro…

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Exposing Moral Injury with Wendy Dean, MD 52:12

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Dr. Wendy Dean, psychiatrist, writer, and co-founder of Moral Injury of Healthcare, reveals how a profit-driven healthcare system is wounding the very clinicians sworn to care for patients. Drawing from her book If I Betray These Words, Dean explains the concept of moral injury—how systemic betrayal, not personal weakness, often drives physician di…

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#21: Former Marine Beau Laviolette Combines EMDR, IFS and Nature Retreats to Heal Veterans and Create Meaning. 1:17:53

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Send us a text What happens when you combine military experience, personal recovery, cutting-edge trauma therapies, and the healing power of nature? Beau Laviolette's remarkable journey answers this question through a story of transformation and purpose. From the sugar cane fields of Louisiana to the Marine Corps and back again, Beau's path wasn't …

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BONUS - Managing Uncertainty: A Path to Better Patient Care 55:03

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Today, we're releasing a special bonus episode featuring Emily and our "uncertainty correspondent" Alexa Miller, in conversation with the ABIM Foundation. Together, they reflect on the key insights from creating the Uncertainty in Medicine series. Thank you to the ABIM Foundation for hosting and recording this webinar. To sign up for a webinar in t…

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#20: How IFS Helped Me Face Cancer And Myself - Audiodiary of My Level I IFS Training. 1:00:39

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Send us a text In this episode, I take you inside my experience of learning Internal Family Systems therapy while simultaneously navigating prostate cancer surgery and recovery during the fall and winter of 2023-24. Through audio diary entries recorded over three months, you'll hear my real-time reflections as I move through an intensive experienti…

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13 - Uncertainty in Medicine: Denial and Acceptance 44:33

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In the series finale, we explore a different type of uncertainty—the uncertainty that arises around the healthcare system itself. This episode follows Ed Stratton, a stage IV cancer patient who beat his cancer, only to be denied a life-saving liver transplant by his insurance provider. His daughter Erin, armed with industry knowledge and unshakable…

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DETAINED (Episode 3 of 3) 5:56

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In the explosive conclusion of Detained, Marisol's world shatters once more as ICE targets her daughter Ana. As the family is pulled even deeper into the system, legal tactics collide with raw emotion, and public outcry becomes their only weapon. With mounting pressure and fading hope, the fight for Miguel's freedom and Ana's safety becomes a natio…

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DETAINED (Episode 2 of 3) 5:44

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EPISODE 2 of 3 Miguel has been detained. Now, it's up to Marisol and fierce immigration attorney Raquel to fight a battle that's as emotional as it is political. As bureaucracies stall and ICE tries to vanish Miguel into the system, Raquel exposes the truth—this isn't random. It's war. In the second part of Detained, justice collides with fury in a…

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memoirs of a whiny ***** on the internet (formerly known as my personal pensieve)

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Developing Meaning

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#24: Past Year Review (PYR) and Setting Intentions for Beginner's Mind, Questioning Assumptions, and Consilience in 2025. (REPOST) 34:07

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A Soft Place to Land with Frances Southwick, DO 1:01:36

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Medicine Beyond Medicine with Alicia Ashorn & Anthony Thigpen 53:02

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Stories that Save Us with Sharon Fennix 51:29

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#23: Master Hypnotist Mike Mandel (50 Years) on Ego States, Parts Work, and the Architecture of Mind. 1:34:12

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The Nurse and the Nun with Linda Wick, DNP, APRN 38:32

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Birth and Poetry with Sarah Auna 50:34

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In This Body with Meghan Rothenberger, MD 47:58

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The Chaplain and the Doctor with Chaplain Betty Clark & Jessica Zitter, MD 56:55

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The 100-Year Turnaround in Child Survival with Perri Klass, MD 1:07:24

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Questions Without Answers with Sarah Manguso 45:09

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#22: Healing Beyond Words - Joanne Twombly on 30 + Years of Treating Complex Trauma With Hypnosis, EMDR, IFS, and Deep Brain Reorienting. 1:16:54

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Reimagining the Medical Drama with Michael Grassi and Daniela Lamas, MD 38:59

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Creative Care with Dr. Anne Basting (Crossover Episode with Remo Health) 43:02

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First Person Medicine with Dr. Susan Nathan and Thor Ringler 34:36

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When the Exit is the Beginning: The Plot Twist with Darlene O. Hightower 44:58

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Breaking the Mental Health Stigma in Medicine with Corey Feist 44:17

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Exposing Moral Injury with Wendy Dean, MD 52:12

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#21: Former Marine Beau Laviolette Combines EMDR, IFS and Nature Retreats to Heal Veterans and Create Meaning. 1:17:53

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BONUS - Managing Uncertainty: A Path to Better Patient Care 55:03

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#20: How IFS Helped Me Face Cancer And Myself - Audiodiary of My Level I IFS Training. 1:00:39

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13 - Uncertainty in Medicine: Denial and Acceptance 44:33

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DETAINED (Episode 3 of 3) 5:56

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DETAINED (Episode 2 of 3) 5:44

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DETAINED (Episode 1 of 3) 5:31

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12 - Uncertainty in Medicine: The Good Life 38:12

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The Weight of Representation - Audio Drama Part 2 of 2 5:53

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The Weight of Representation – Audio Drama (Part 1 of 2) 7:47

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11 - Uncertainty in Medicine: How We Die 40:16

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10 - Uncertainty in Medicine: Trusting the Process with Leila Simon Hayes 21:08

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9 - Uncertainty in Medicine: Off Script 36:03