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380: What if you had a spontaneous awakening?

Growing up in the notorious commune of Rajneeshpuram, and haunted by abandonment and addic... more

Yesterday

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Yesterday

#292

379: What if you witnessed your client’s execution?

A man shaped by cruelty devotes his life to defending the condemned, discovering that real... more

14 Oct 2025

53 MINS

53:22

14 Oct 2025

#291

378: What if your private nightmare was also theirs?

A woman, who ignores her instincts, enters a marriage that soon spirals into betrayal and ... more

07 Oct 2025

59 MINS

59:14

07 Oct 2025

#290

377: What if you were a gay, Mormon, drug-dealing, federal informant?

After losing himself to meth and a double life as a federal informant, a man’s world colla... more

30 Sep 2025

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1:10:10

30 Sep 2025

#289

376: What if a car crash shattered your world?

When a sudden car crash shatters her world, a woman’s grief and struggle to keep living le... more

23 Sep 2025

54 MINS

54:25

23 Sep 2025

#288

375: What if you had to fight your way out of the jungle?

After a prominent life filled with passion and adventure ends with the death of her brilli... more

16 Sep 2025

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1:07:17

16 Sep 2025

#287

What if you were mauled by a grizzly bear? [Rebroadcast #262]

While hunting in the Canadian wilderness, a man accidentally comes between a grizzly bear ... more

11 Sep 2025

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49:59

11 Sep 2025

#286

What if you didn’t sleep for 120 hours? [Rebroadcast #170]

A young woman hungry to explore the world goes on a trip to Tanzania and unexpectedly find... more

09 Sep 2025

55 MINS

55:06

09 Sep 2025

#285

What if you could never be what they wanted? [Rebroadcast #246]

Always feeling she had failed the ideals of her strict Muslim, South Asian family and comm... more

02 Sep 2025

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45:53

02 Sep 2025

#284

What if you signed a billion-year contract? [Rebroadcast #243]

After a woman’s Mormon family falls apart following the death of her father, her mother br... more

28 Aug 2025

57 MINS

57:39

28 Aug 2025

#283

What if you woke up and couldn’t move? [Rebroadcast #242]

After growing up queer with a complicated father in the 1960s, a man forges his own path, ... more

26 Aug 2025

56 MINS

56:24

26 Aug 2025

#282

What if you went missing? [Rebroadcast #196]

A woman who seeks awakening through myriad healing practices finds her ultimate challenge ... more

21 Aug 2025

1 HR 05 MINS

1:05:40

21 Aug 2025

#281

What if you never stopped searching? [Rebroadcast #195]

Decades after her brother disappeared in the early 1980s, a woman becomes deeply involved ... more

19 Aug 2025