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.

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    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

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    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

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    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

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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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    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’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

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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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    This reflection shares what I learned from my last interview with Kelly — a woman whose love for life and quiet strength taught me the real meaning of gratitude. She reminded me that every breath is a gift, and that slowing down is how we learn to live. Read more