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

Inspiring stories told weekly to help change your perspective — and maybe even leave you smiling.

  • The People Who Stay There is a moment in almost every difficult season when we quietly start taking inventory of our lives. Not of our accomplishments. Not of our possessions. Of our people. Who still calls, still shows up, who sits in the silence when there are no easy answers? Who stays? That question stayed… Read more

  • There are certain adventures I know I will probably never attempt. Running an ultramarathon is one of them. Climbing Mount Everest is another. And after listening to Rand Timmerman’s remarkable story on Change Happened, Then What?, I can confidently add hiking the entire Appalachian Trail to that list. More than 2,200 miles. Fourteen states. Mountains.… Read more

  • Morgan Scafe’s Story and the Reality of Living with Complex PTSD One of the things that stayed with me most after recording Morgan Scafe’s story was how different survival looks from what many people imagine. When we hear stories about trauma, we often want a resolution. We want to believe that once the truth is… Read more

  • There are certain people who walk into your life and somehow feel familiar. Before you fully understand why. That was Lisa for me. We met in a small corner of the internet by chance, yet within minutes of talking, it felt like we had known each other much longer. The more we shared, the more… Read more

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    Some stories are not just about a person. They are about a moment in time and everything that had to change because of it. Ken Kunken’s story is one of those stories. In 1970, when Ken was injured during a college football game at Cornell University, the world looked very different for people living with… Read more

  • 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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    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

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    There’s something uniquely quiet about never having a father in your life.You don’t always get a dramatic moment of abandonment.Often, there isn’t a single explanation at all. But because they were simply… never there. Kevin’s story in this episode of Change Happened, Then What? stirred something unexpected in me. When Absence Isn’t Loud—but It Still… Read more