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

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    What happens when something changes your life and then the world stops talking about it? After talking with Kenny that question has been sitting with me. As I worked on this episode with Kenny, I kept coming back to my own experience during COVID. Not the headlines. Not the rules. But the moments that stayed Read more

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    There are moments in life that don’t just happen, they stay. They settle into you quietly, and over time, you begin to realize they shaped more than just that day, they shaped who you became after it. Recording Scott DeLuzio’s story for Change Happened, Then What? brought me back to one of those moments in Read more

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    There’s something about poetry that I’ve never quite been able to explain and maybe that’s the point. Poetry doesn’t ask you to understand it, It asks you to feel it, and I’ve always loved that. Even if I don’t read it as often as I wish I did. I don’t sit down every night with Read more

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    What happens when what you’re told is “right”… doesn’t feel right? That’s the question at the heart of this episode with Leah—and if I’m being honest, it’s one that brought me right back to a chapter of my own life. Because long before we had the language we have now—before terms like neurodivergent were part Read more

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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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    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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    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