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

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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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    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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    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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    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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    There are moments in life that split us in two. After losing her brother to suicide in 2003, Heather Holt reflects on turning grief into purpose—from advocacy and awareness to storytelling that creates space for honesty, connection, and hope for anyone learning how to carry loss with compassion, courage, together. Read more

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    Raising a complex child in a world that didn’t yet understand neurodiversity taught me to trust my intuition and advocate beyond labels. I learned to teach the schools how to teach my child, prioritize who he truly was, and support him until he could choose his own identity as an adult. Read more

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    Losing my brother changed everything, including the way I listen to my intuition. This story explores intuitive healing after loss and why we can’t unknow what our soul knows. When we trust that inner guidance, grief becomes a path toward clarity, connection, and a new way of living. Read more

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    The Conversation After the Recording Some of the best parts of my podcast conversations happen after we stop recording.When Andy and I wrapped up our interview, we stayed on the phone a while longer.What we ended up talking about didn’t make it into the episode — but it stayed with me. Remembering the Band Room Read more