89. The Betrayal That Was Alchemized Into Art | Tracey Yarad

89. The Betrayal That Was Alchemized Into Art | Tracey Yarad

Episode 89 | The Betrayal That Was Alchemized Into Art Forgiveness doesn't make what they did right. It sets you free. In this rich, moving, and at times jaw-dropping episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Tracey Yarad, award-winning songwriter, jazz vocalist, composer, and creator of the one-woman show All These Pretty Things. Tracey has had more than one life: a tumultuous first marriage to a man 17 years her senior who designed the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's costumes, seven years as a celibate meditator in a white sari, a 23-year marriage that ended when her husband left her for their goddaughter, and a solo move to Brooklyn with a dog named Billy Ray and a bag of music to write. Her show has toured Edinburgh Fringe, London, Manchester, and Adelaide. Her wisdom is something else entirely. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * Why forgiveness is sometimes a single moment, sometimes a process, and sometimes a choice you have to make over and over * How seven years of celibate Raja Yoga meditation gave her a new way of being in the world and why she came back * What gaslighting looks like when you're deep inside it and love someone * How creativity becomes the container for the things words can't hold * What she did when she had nothing left and why laughter was part of the answer Whatever it takes to get through the darkness, this episode will help you find it. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Follow Tracey: @TraceyYarad on Instagram All These Pretty Things, tour dates and show info via Instagram Australian tour: February 2026, Adelaide Fringe and Blue Mountains Tracey's Shows: - Hollywood Fringe at the The Actors Company Theatre June 25th, 27th and 28th. - New York (The Australian Theatre Festival) September 28 to October 4, 2026, held at Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York City. Tickets here: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/12741?tab=details [https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/12741?tab=details] 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Connect with Meg: @megtuoheyofficial | @wisdomstripespodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

88. He Built a 10 Billion Dollar Company. At 47 He Still Can't See the Road to Love. | Nick Sansone

Episode 88 | He Built a 10 Billion Dollar Company. At 47 He Still Can't See the Road to Love. | Nick Sansone When you win, give the credit to the team. When you lose, the first person you look at is yourself. In this grounded and deeply generous episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Nick Sansone, principal at Sansone Group, one of the top real estate development firms in the United States. With 60 million square feet in its portfolio and close to $10 billion in total value, Nick's firm didn't get there through ego. It got there through humility, hard work, faith, a round boardroom table with no head, and a Sicilian grandfather who once had a fruit stand. This conversation is about what it actually means to lead people with integrity, and what happens when you don't. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * Why humble leadership isn't about getting it right, it's about owning it when you don't * How Nick's family went from stealing coal to heat the house to building a billion-dollar portfolio * The vacant warehouse with terrible soil that became their industrial pivot, and why they did it anyway * What happens when three equal principals have to make decisions together, every day * Why faith is the backstop of everything, and how it carries you through the dark without answers Humility doesn't hold you back. It elevates you. This episode is proof. 💡 Featured Resources: Learn more about Nick: nickgsansone.com [http://nickgsansone.com/] Sansone Group: sansonegroup.com [http://sansonegroup.com/] 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Connect with Meg: @megtuoheyofficial | @wisdomstripespodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

87. How Storytelling Heals: A Screenwriter's Journey Through Loss and Forgiveness | Simbi Hall

Episode 87 | How Storytelling Heals: A Screenwriter's Journey Through Loss and Forgiveness | Simbi Hall What if the stories we tell on screen are actually the stories we need to heal within ourselves? In this raw, layered, and quietly extraordinary episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Simbi Hall, screenwriter, director, producer, and storyteller whose work spans film, television, and live shows, including the Academy Awards red carpet. Simbi joined this conversation days after losing her father and her aunt in the same week, while her mother was in the ER. She recorded it anyway, because she had something to say. This conversation is about grief, storytelling, forgiveness, community, and the radical act of staying soft when life tries to make you hard. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * What it means to catch yourself hardening and why staying soft is the braver choice * Why storytelling is how we get to world peace and comedy is how we let it in * Sometimes your biological family is just relatives and that distinction can set you free * How directing live TV and directing grief require the same skill set * Is what I'm about to do creating peace, or the opposite? The question that changes everything. Have the coffee. Get the hug. Ask for what you need. This one will stay with you. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Follow Simbi: @simbihall on Instagram Watch her film, Long Story Short: https://watch.afi.com/movie/long-story-short-4 [https://watch.afi.com/movie/long-story-short-4] 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

86. Your Body Already Knows How to Heal. Here's the Science Behind It. | Dr. Joy Kong

EPISODE 86 | Your Body Already Knows How to Heal. Here's the Science Behind It. | Dr. Joy Kong What if your body already knows how to heal, and medicine has just been getting in the way? In this fascinating episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Dr. Joy Kong, a UCLA-trained, triple board-certified physician in psychiatry, addiction medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Dr. Kong is the president of Chara Health in Los Angeles, founder of the American Academy of Integrative Cell Therapy, and a 73rd-generation descendant of Confucius. She has dedicated her career to one question: what would medicine look like if we actually tried to heal people? This conversation moves from stem cells and mesenchymal therapy to peptides, ozone, ketamine, and the mental health system Dr. Kong herself was caught inside, maxed out on Prozac in medical school, now off all antidepressants for years. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * What stem cell therapy actually is, and why your body already has the tools to regenerate * Why autoimmune conditions, long COVID, and chronic illness respond so well to this approach * The 9/11 responder who was told he was dying, and what happened after three sessions * What peptides actually do and why over 30 are now used in Dr. Kong's clinic * How ketamine therapy helps the brain rewire trauma, explained in plain language Your body is a gift. This episode is an invitation to start treating it like one. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: 🧬 Chara Health: charahealth.com [http://charahealth.com/] 📖 Tiger of Beijing, Dr. Kong's memoir 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

85. How to Build Resilience When You Have Nothing to Start With | Rich Robledo

Episode 85 | How to Build Resilience When You Have Nothing to Start With with Rich Robledo Eyes up. Keep going. Life is going to punch you. What matters is what you do next. In this grounded, energizing episode of Wisdom Stripes, Meg Tuohey sits down with Rich Robledo, entrepreneur, real estate broker, community leader, and founder of both the Robledo Group and Cigars and Conversation, a networking hub that has brought together business minds from across the country, including the Governor of Nevada. Rich grew up with a teenage mother and an absent alcoholic father, navigated the 2008 recession without a safety net, and built a life and a career around one simple principle: if you've done well, you have an obligation to do good. This conversation is warm, practical, and deeply human. It is about resilience, connection, mentorship, and what it really means to show up every day when showing up is hard. 🎧 Tune in and learn: * What eyes up actually means, and how to find the helpers when you feel alone * Why resilience is a muscle, not a stock, and how to build more of it * The art of the phone call, the thank you note, and why connection is a skill we have to practice * Why a non-decision is still a decision, and what avoidance is really costing you * Don't let your imagination be your limitation: how new rooms change what you think is possible Take the punch. Take your breath. Lift your eyes. Look for the helpers. 💚 💡 Featured Resources: Connect with Rich: @RichRobledo | richrobledo.com [http://richrobledo.com/] Cigars and Conversation: follow Rich online for upcoming events 📚 HeartPrint by Meg Tuohey Order now at yourheartprint.com [http://yourheartprint.com/] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]