Heather Holt Podcast Host | Storytelling on Healing, Resilience & Life After Change

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    A Childhood Promise That Shaped Mark Maselli’s Life Sometimes the most powerful change in life doesn’t begin with a diagnosis, a moment, or even a turning point. Sometimes it begins with a decision. When Mark Maselli was just five years old, he watched his grandmother endure dialysis treatments. The machines, the hospital visits, and the… Read more

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    Most of us spend a good portion of our lives trying to plan the future. We map things out carefully.We imagine the life we want to build.We try to move step by step toward the person we hope to become. However, life has a way of reminding us that plans are just that — plans.… Read more

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    Why Self-Worth Can’t Be Measured Online For many of us, relationships today come with an unexpected complication: social media. Thirty years ago, connection looked very different. If you wanted to talk to someone, you called them. If there was tension in a relationship, you worked through it privately. And if you needed space from someone,… Read more

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    I Wasn’t Supposed to Be That Person There are certain lines we draw in our minds about who we will never become. I wasn’t supposed to be someone who struggled with opioids.Not supposed to be someone who knew that quiet, seductive relief.Definitely not someone who understood how quickly “just this once” becomes something else entirely.… Read more

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    When “Normal” isn’t normal One of the most striking things about recording this episode with Lisa wasn’t just what happened to her. It was how long she believed it was normal. When we talk about normalizing childhood abuse, we aren’t talking about excusing it. We’re talking about how the human brain adapts in order to… Read more

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    For most of my life… For most of my life, I didn’t know I was dyslexic.I just knew that reading and writing felt harder for me than they seemed to be for everyone else. It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that something happened—unexpected, uncomfortable, and oddly clarifying—that changed how I understood my… Read more

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    There’s a particular kind of silence that follows medical trauma. It’s the silence that comes after you’ve survived.After the scans, the surgery, and the words benign, you’re lucky, and it could have been worse.After everyone around you exhales—sometimes before you do. When I spoke with Rachel Stone, I realized just how familiar that silence felt.… Read more

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    Over the years, I’ve witnessed a pattern that becomes impossible to unsee once you recognize it. It shows up quietly at first—during custody disputes, in carefully curated public appearances, and in children who learn early which version of themselves is safest to show. What often looks like “good parenting” on the outside can, in reality,… Read more

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    There are things we carry quietly for a long time. Not because we don’t want help.Not because we don’t know something was wrong.But because we didn’t have the words, the safety, or the permission to speak when it first happened. For me, that silence began in childhood. What happened to me didn’t come with language.… Read more

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    After recording with Angie Hawkins, I was reminded why Change Happened, Then What? exists. This podcast isn’t about the host—it’s about creating a safe space for guests to share their truth and for listeners to feel seen, connected, and not alone through the power of storytelling. Read more