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BITE-SIZE PERSONAL STORIES OF SURVIVING LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCES: Hosted by Luke Colson and Kyle Wise, we feature weekly guests and explore extreme personal life changing experiences and the journey emotional and physical recovery. Each guest discusses their story of how their lives were turned upside down, by unexpected events. Stories like surviving a car crash, surviving abuse, being paralyzed in an accident, witnessing a crime.. and many more! Luke and Kyle will take an honest, raw, yet ...
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Send us a Text Message. There was something about turning 40 years old that made Teresa Greco reevaluate her life. Some people might call it a midlife crisis, but for Teresa, it was an opportunity to start asking some very important questions about her life. Realizing that half her life had been lived (hopefully anyway) and wondering if this was al…
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Send us a Text Message. Jocelyn Bates is still processing what must be one of the traumatizing experiences we have ever heard on the show, and she says that she expects to continue to process what happened for the rest of her life.Her story of trauma is losing her parents 7 days apart unexpectedly in sept 2021 during Covid. Jocelyn lived with her p…
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Send us a Text Message. The case of Austin Colson, whose promising life was cut short by a chilling mystery. We try to uncover the circumstances surrounding his disappearance on January 11, 2018, diving deep into Austin's story. Our investigation leads us to a man with a sketchy past and connections to Austin. Austin' story continues to be a trail …
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Send us a Text Message. What really happened to Jason Landry, the Texas State University student who vanished without a trace on his way home for winter break? Join us as we unravel the events surrounding his mysterious disappearance, starting from the haunting discovery of his abandoned car, to the baffling clues left behind. Was it a voluntary di…
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Send us a Text Message. Raja Vaidya has struggled with a stutter all his life. In this extremely raw and honest episode, Raja discusses how his stutter affected his life! From his childhood, which included years of rejection and bullying, to his professional years, and how sheer determination led him to work hard and make a career for himself in sc…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever wondered what lurks in the shadows of our world? From bone-chilling paranormal encounters to spine-tingling true crime stories, we promise to take you on a journey that will ignite your curiosity and perhaps even make you question the world around you. It isn't just about the chills and thrills; it's about finding a com…
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Send us a Text Message. Melissa Robinson-Winemiller was a professional musician, it was her life since childhood, her study, and eventually her dream job. it was all she ever knew, and it was at this dream job that her life would be flipped upside down in an instant, and set about a long and devastating spiral into the unknown. Melissa was assaulte…
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Send us a Text Message. Lisa Heacock lost 12 loved ones in a 22 month period, including her parents, and her 24 year old son-in-law. She ended a 28 year marriage, and was diagnosed with breats cancer and had a double mastectomy! After the losses, her life trajectory changed forever. Most of us have experieced grief in some way, and there really is …
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Send us a Text Message. Michelle Rae Woodward has had the most painful, extraordinary, and exhausting journey through multiple pregnancies. All of which ended in 2nd term pregnancy loss (birthed 3 boys and 2 girls, all deceased). She talks about how she was treated by the western medical paradigm, we discuss the grief she went through, her look int…
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Send us a Text Message. In this raw and often heartbreaking episode, we hear how Shay Leonia had to witness the slow demise of her mother who was diagnosed with dementia when Shay was only 9 years old, and her mother was in her Forties! There is still so much that is unknown about FTD, the specific disease in question, which is the deterioration of…
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Send us a Text Message. WARNING: Graphic Content involving description of fatal road traffic accident. Jacques is a trauma survivor, after being involved in a horrific accident that totally changed the course of his life. The accident is quite graphic, you have been warned, and involved three individual traumas one after the other. In the dark of n…
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Send us a Text Message. 30 BRAND NEW EPISODES STARTING NEXT WEEK!: Wow, this one is extraordinary. Thank you Alana for coming on and really just telling it how it is. This is for all of you listeners out there with any toxic work experiences, in fact maybe you are in one now and you don't know it? Alana tells us the story of how she became the vict…
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Send us a Text Message. Gina Fox is a childhood and adult trauma survivor. She was abused from age 5 to 16 by her own father, and its tough to listen to. She was then abused again by her ex-husband for 5 years. She had very bad coping skills as a result of these horrible experiences, and a mountain to climb! As her life continued into her thirties …
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Send us a Text Message. Sabrina Colosimo, discusses her mom's rare syndrome that rendered her paralyzed up to her eyeballs, within two weeks. Terrifying! It baffled the doctors and it turned their lives upside down. She “lived” in the ICU for 16 months, fully conscious and unable to move. Her family took turns around the clock to have someone there…
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Send us a Text Message. TRIGGER / CONTENT WARNING: Domestic Abuse and Domestic Violence. We re-visit this amazing episode, and hear how Leticia was groomed by her would be husband at 14 years old, he was twice her age. As a child, she was rejected by her parents when they separated and had nowhere and no-one to turn to, so she was drawn towards the…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, Tara Henderson comes on the show to discuss trauma and triggers and a serious battle with addiction! Tara has a lengthy background of childhood trauma, with both her parents being alcoholics. That childhood experience turned into drug and alcohol addiction because she was running away from who she was and how she …
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Send us a Text Message. This week, we revisit this amazing chat with Tarah Dowling, In one of the most emotional episodes we have had to date, Tarah tells us about her harrowing and traumatic childhood growing up with her drug addicted mother. She tells us about her heartbreaking decision to leave the family house at 12 years old, and give herself …
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Send us a Text Message. Could the haunting jazz melodies of New Orleans hide a spine-chilling secret? Embrace the darkness with us as we explore the sinister saga of the New Orleans Axeman, a shadow that loomed over the city with an axe in hand. Our latest episode takes you through the terrifying events, when playing jazz became a means of survival…
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Send us a Text Message. Sarah Bussey was fighting a hidden illness that doctors simply could not diagnose. In her mid thirties, she was losing he hair, gaining weight, having seizures, and coming out in rashes and pain all over her body. She was bed ridden and thought she was dying, and even more heartbreaking, so did her three young children. Desp…
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Send us a Text Message. Danielle Patrice lost her Mother to suicide when she was just 22, and as an only child, and her Father not around, she had to work out what to do and how to deal with all the things that come with a Parents death, alone and at such a young age. As Patrice looked for comfort and support, she found herself in a relationship th…
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Send us a Text Message. When the familiar becomes shrouded in mystery, and a family's heartache echoes through time, the story of Luke Stout emerges from the shadows. The haunting disappearance of a 24-year-old man whose absence left an indelible mark on his loved ones. His broken bicycle, discovered behind a local CVS, serves as a silent sentinel …
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Send us a Text Message. After 20 years, Ann finally found the strength to escape an abusive, emotionally crippling, and desperate marriage. Just as her life was beginning to blossom, disaster struck. After coming down with the Flu one day, Ann's health started to deteriorate, and the next day, she awoke with no feeling in her legs. After emergency,…
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Send us a Text Message. Peel back the curtain on the unnerving trend of phrogging with us, as we navigate through the shadows lurking in the unlikeliest of places—our own homes. The chilling saga of the Denver Spider-Man, Theodore Coney, unfolds, revealing the dark underbelly of seemingly mundane spaces. These stories of home-dwelling intruders ser…
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Send us a Text Message. A few years ago, Anastasia Zadiek, left her house after an argument with her husband with the sole intention of ending her life. Decades of childhood trauma had led to suicidal thoughts, and that night, everything just boiled over. As she walked down to her regular hiking spot towards the cliffs, she started to think about h…
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Send us a Text Message. Kendall Patterson joins us this week, for a simply wonderful episode. Kendall has experienced abuse (of all the kinds), poverty, traumatic events, two traumatic brain injury parents (on separate occasions!) and most of her immediate family are or were addicts. Thats just the start, in 2021, the gloves really came off, with a…
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Send us a Text Message. Picture a house where a family's American Dream twists into a living nightmare of supernatural proportions. That's the tale of Latoya Ammons and her family, as they grapple with forces that defy explanation—flies swarming in winter, a child levitating, and shadowy apparitions stalking their home. Join us as we unravel the ch…
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Send us a Text Message. David was a young, successful, high-flying executive, making his way to the top! First working for a record label in LA, he then fell into the business and marketing side of the adult film industry! By his twenties, he had 'the cars, the girls, the houses, and the expensive watches', and he felt he had the world at his feet.…
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Send us a Text Message. Imagine being thrust into a real-life mystery, where the sands of the Arizona desert hold the secrets to a young man's inexplicable disappearance. We trace the baffling journey of Daniel Cornelius Robinson, a 24-year-old hydrogeologist whose vanishing has confounded family, friends, and authorities. The story unfolds with th…
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Send us a Text Message. During his 35+ year career, Professor Pete Alexander had the privilege to work in a variety of positions including Sales, Marketing, College Professor and Small Business Owner. Each role had one thing in common - high stress - to the point he was diagnosed with stress-related diabetes and ended up in the hospital with a seve…
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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever caught a glimpse of something in the night that you couldn't explain? This might be the episode that sheds some light on those dark corners of curiosity. Slink into the shadows with me as we track the enigmatic Fresno Nightcrawler, a cryptid shrouded in mystery since it first walked into the public eye on a gra…
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Send us a Text Message. Megan Harris is the author of 'Not You' – a memoir of her life as a young mother and mixed-race woman stuck in a cycle of abuse. With her first abortion at age 18, her first child at 19, a long series of bad relationships with men who demean and abuse her, and her own struggles with depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and …
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Send us a Text Message. Many years ago, despite living what many would consider a great life, Sarah Bettman couldn’t help but feel like something was missing...like there was something more to be had. She has a distinct memory of sitting in her car on her way home from work. She was stopped at a stop sign, staring aimlessly at heavy raindrops hitti…
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Send us a Text Message. Discove the spine-chilling reality at the center of our exploration into Heidi Planck's unsolved disappearance. Today, we piece together the eerie puzzle of her last known movements, the disabling of her devices' GPS, and the FBI's raid on her home. We'll also consider the sinister implications of her employer's financial sc…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, we welcome Leah Drew to the show, and what a wonderful episode it is! After enduring an emotionally challenging childhood, surviving a pancreatic tumor at 16 years old, suffering with severe physical pain, facing significant chronic health problems, and nearly committing suicide, Leah found herself fed-up with the…
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Send us a Text Message. TW / CONTENT WARNING: This story involves details of kidnap and sexual assault and may be triggering. Listener discretion advised. Flashback episode, one of our Most listened to. It was just an ordinary day, Rhiannon was washing her car in broad daylight, she was 19 years old. Moments later she would be kidnapped at knife po…
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Send us a Text Message. As the twilight whispers through the trees of Bristol County, Massachusetts, the legend of the Pukwudgies comes alive, and I'm here to share their enigmatic tales. In this episode, we tread carefully into the shadowy realm of these two-foot-high tricksters, whose lore is woven deep into the fabric of the Wampanoag tribe and …
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Send us a Text Message. Step into the shadows of the Jensen household, where infidelity and dread culminate in the chilling demise of Julie Jensen, a story that not only grips the heart but also challenges the boundaries of legal evidence. In an episode rich with suspense, we meticulously piece together the fractured portrait of a marriage poisoned…
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Send us a Text Message. Randy Brown faced a dramatic plunge to the depths of depression, after not one, but two of his four daughter’s sudden deaths. This was followed by addiction, and then divorce, prison, and a career lost forever. His book, Rebound Forward is a transparent and honest look at his life and how adversity helped him rebound and has…
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Send us a Text Message. Valentine's Day of 2000 was marked by a tragedy that would haunt Littleton, Colorado, when two young lives were abruptly ended in an unsolved murder at a local Subway restaurant. With the shadow of Columbine still looming over the town, we delve into the intricate details of the case that has left investigators chasing shado…
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Send us a Text Message. TW: Contains conversations about sexual and physical abuse. Bhavya Gaur is a survivor of abuse and domestic violence. In this extraordinary and empowering episode, she takes us through her life growing up in India, getting married, having kids, and eventually leaving her abusive husband for a new life in Canada. Bhavya first…
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Send us a Text Message. Josh Rogers joins us for an amazing chat, in this must listen episode! Josh was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness as a child, He was kicked out of family home at 16 as a registered alcoholic, and was hospitalized into a young adult mental health ward on suicide watch at 17. After finally getting sober and his life back on track,…
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Send us a Text Message. As the shadows of uncertainty linger over the unsolved mysteries of Justine Gross and Tony Turner, we shed light on their stories in a heartfelt exploration of hope and perseverance. Feel the weight of unanswered questions as we recount the chilling details of Justine's fall from a Penn State university building and delve in…
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Send us a Text Message. Suzanne Jabour is a grieving mom who has found meaning in her loss through opening up conversations about grief – how it really works and how we can support people experiencing it. Suzanne came on our show to share her moving and heartbreaking story, but, as with all our guests, we focus on the journey through the darkness, …
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Send us a Text Message. Dare to step into the shadows of Scotland's past with us as we unearth the sinister saga of Sawney Bean, the patriarch of perversion whose lifeblood fueled the fire of cannibal folklore. Witness the harrowing transformation of a man from destitution to depravity, as Bean, hand in hand with Agnes Douglas, spawned an unspeakab…
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Send us a Text Message. Could the untimely demise of Tiffany Valiante, an 18-year-old fresh out of high school, be anything but the suicide it was hastily deemed to be? Her fear of the dark and the mysterious disappearance of her personal belongings suggest a narrative far more complex than initially put forth. We navigate the murky details of that…
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Send us a Text Message. Stephany Ann is a survivor of narcissistic abuse and has experienced relationship trauma through two marriages to narcissists. Stephany intimately understands the depths of emotional pain, isolation, and self-doubt thats comes with such experiences. Her journey from victimhood to victory is truly awe-inspiring, fueled by an …
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Send us a Text Message. A ghostly journey where we recount the haunting of the Bell Witch, a tale so gripping it's etched into American folklore. Experience the terror that surrounded the Bell family, as we share their bone-chilling encounters with an entity that didn't just go bump in the night—it wreaked havoc with a vengeance. From the unexplain…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to our first guest episode of 2024! Season 4 is upon us and we are thrilled to have Michelle Glogovac on the show to kick us off! Michelle lost her father at 7 years old, and soon after had to deal with an absent mother for reasons she will explain! Michelle realized she had to fend for herself and worked hard throug…
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Send us a Text Message. Well, here we are, as we embark on our fourth year and fourth season of our globally acclaimed Podcast, Well, 'That F*cked Me Up! Surviving Life Changing Events'. If you have just found us, you have over 100 episodes to go back and listen too! Each week, we have a new guest, discussing their story! Stories of triumph over tr…
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Send us a Text Message. Could the faded echoes of the past finally lead to answers for a family still seeking closure after decades? Our latest episode pierces through the silence surrounding the chilling disappearance of Alicia Markovich, a vibrant teenager lost to the shrouds of time on April 26, 1987. Unraveling a story woven with perplexities, …
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