Spirit Talk Show - Bedtime Stories for Grown Ups

He was not supposed to survive. His cardiologist told him his heart was like a Toyota Corolla towing a giant trailer — it was just going to burn out. He had been through more pain than most people carry in a lifetime, and he had made peace with the idea that nature would simply finish what he had not. Then one summer afternoon, a friend needed company at a river, and he went along.

He found a rock. He sat down. He closed his eyes and started listening.

What happened next on that rock — in the silence between the water sounds, in the deepening levels of his own mind — is not something he can fully explain in a single conversation. He met a presence he describes as pure love and pure law. He asked the question he had been carrying since childhood: where were you? And he got an answer that took away every last piece of his anger.

He also came home with a completely different relationship to water.

Greg's journey from that rock led him deep into the science of molecular hydrogen — through Japanese research, top engineers, and the longest-lived population on earth — and eventually to the development of a health protocol built around the cleanest water, the cleanest air, and the removal of the chemicals that quietly compromise the human body every single day. He looks twenty-five. He is almost fifty. He will tell you that is not a coincidence.

This is one of the more spiritually and scientifically layered conversations we have had on this show. Come with an open mind. Come with your questions. Come ready to be surprised.

Find Greg and the Hydrogen Protocol at https://myhydrogenprotocol.com

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There is a kind of love that asks you to give yourself completely to something that is not yet given to you. Foster parents know this love. It is patient in a way most love does not have to be. It is brave in a way most love never has to be asked to be. And it does not make headlines — it just keeps showing up in the dark, in the kitchen, at three in the morning, holding a small person and refusing to let the uncertainty in the room become the uncertainty in the embrace.

That is the love Lane Igoudin has lived.

In 2004, Lane and his husband Jonathan entered the Los Angeles foster care system — the largest in the country — hoping to give a home to a child who needed one. What followed was years of legal uncertainty, courtroom battles, and a day Lane still calls curbside delivery, when a newborn's arrival hung on a phone call that would not come. His memoir, A Family, Maybe, tells that story without polish and without sentimentality, because he believes some stories do not belong only to the person who lived them.

In this episode, Lane and I talk about what it really means to parent through uncertainty, the moment that almost broke him, what he has learned about loving children whose future is decided by strangers on a timeline you do not control, and why he believes the foster system as it stands does not serve the kids it claims to protect.

He will tell you he is not a hero. I will let you decide that for yourself.

Find Lane and his book A Family, Maybe at laneigoudin.com.

Now go make a story worth telling. Goodnight.

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What happens when you stop waiting for “someday” and start living the story you’re meant to tell?

In this luminous episode of Spirit Talk Show: Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups, Doyle and producer Howie welcome Teri M. Brown—a novelist, memoirist, mother, grandmother, and adventurer whose life reads like a testament to resilience, curiosity, and quiet bravery.

Born in Athens, Greece and raised as an Air Force kid all over the world, Teri learned early how to carry home within herself. After homeschooling four children, building a successful nonfiction career, and surviving a long chapter marked by emotional abuse, she made a bold decision: to finally write the fiction she had been holding inside for years.

What followed was extraordinary.

From Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, inspired by real stories of Ukraine, to An Enemy Like Me, a deeply human exploration of identity and war, to Daughters of Green Mountain Gap, Terri’s novels blend history with empathy in ways that linger long after the final page. Along the way, she and her husband pedaled a tandem bicycle more than 3,000 miles across the United States—an experience that reshaped her sense of courage and became the heart of 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure.

In this conversation, Teri reflects on:

Writing fiction after fear and self-doubt

What long journeys teach us about strength and trust

Why stories feel like people you’d want to have lunch with

Letting go of the bucket list and choosing to begin now

How creativity, honesty, and motion can heal what once felt broken

As always, Spirit Talk Show weaves in a signature tribute story and shared reflections—creating space not just to talk about Teri’s work, but to honor the life that shaped it.

This episode feels like opening a window and letting the light in.
It’s about movement—across miles, across genres, and across the invisible lines that separate who we were from who we’re becoming.

Spirit Talk Show: now go tell a story worth telling.

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There is a Welsh word — hiraeth — for the feeling of being homesick for a place you have never been. A longing so specific it sits in the chest. A sense, just around the next corner, that something is waiting for you. That you are always about to arrive.

Elizabeth Bromstein felt it for decades. She had the city, the career, the resume the world told her to want. And the whole time, she kept dreaming about a cabin in the forest.

Then the industry she worked in collapsed. And instead of grabbing the nearest safe shore, she let the wave carry her. She moved into the woods. She built a life out of tarot, perfume, and writing — out of the raw materials of her own what if. And the dreams finally stopped. Because she had arrived.

In this episode, Elizabeth and I talk about what it means to follow a feeling you cannot fully name, the real reason tarot works even for people who think tarot is nonsense, what a ghost ceiling can teach you about reality, and why the most interesting place to stand is always the middle ground — not believing, not disbelieving, just honestly curious.

She teaches tarot to skeptics and overthinkers, people who flinch at the word manifest, and somehow ends up teaching them more about themselves than they expected to learn from a deck of cards. She does not ask you to convert. She asks you to look.

Find Elizabeth at beaumontdriveperfumes.com

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He comes from seven generations of doctors. Surgeons, internists, healers of the body — a family that spent over a century learning how to fix what was broken. And somewhere inside all of that, Beatty Carmichael noticed a leg of the stool that medicine kept leaving out.

Not the physical. Not the mental. The third one. The one nobody had a protocol for.

In this episode, Beatty walks me through a framework he calls the Prayer of Freedom — a process rooted in ancient Bible text that he has now used with over a thousand people dealing with chronic anxiety, chronic pain, addiction, depression, PTSD, and conditions that medication managed but never resolved. He is not asking anyone to join a church. He is not asking anyone to take anything on faith. He is asking one quiet, radical question: what if some of what we carry has a spiritual root that no prescription was ever designed to reach?

What happened in this conversation, I did not expect.

Beatty walked me through the process live, on air. I came in skeptical. I have carried a specific kind of anxiety my whole life — a low hum of dread that has no good reason to be there. And by the time we finished, something had shifted. I don't know exactly what to call it. But the tightness in my chest was gone, and in thirty years, I cannot remember a night that felt that quiet.

I am not telling you what to think about that. I am telling you it happened.

Find Beatty at beatycarmichael.com and theprayeroffreedom.com beattycarmichael.com

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